Zizek

kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca
Tue May 9 07:27:48 PDT 2000


On Tue, 09 May 2000 09:58:09 -0400 Michael Yates <mikey+ at pitt.edu> wrote:


> I have not entered into the numerous discussions of Zizek, because I
> have not read much of him. However, I did read a Lingua Franca (I
> believe) piece on him. Apparently he (and his wife too) try to get a new
> academic gig each year. I got the impression that this was because the
> work was so easy. Zizek is apparently notoriously unconcerned about his
> students, going so far as to put fake names on his student sign up
> sheets to give the impression that his available time for students was
> always filled. No doubt because he had more important things to do.

Yeah, and what's even more astonishing is that people let him get away with it *because* he's an "Eastern European intellectual."

ken



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