You might at least ask Zizek and the hosts to denounce the IFC from the podium.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Newman" <nathanne at nathannewman.org> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Fwd: Zizek! The Movie
Ironically, lefty Zizek's film is appearing at union-busting IFC Center, where the theater hired only non-union projectionists. http://www.thevillager.com/villager_113/unionisprojecting.html http://www.local306.org/
John Sayles quit the Board of Advisors for IFC over the issue.
So it will be interesting for all sorts of quasi-Marxist lefties to attend and violate the union boycott of the theater.
Nathan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 12:52 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Fwd: Zizek! The Movie
[Slavoj will be at the 8 PM showing tonight.]
"THE ELVIS OF CULTURAL THEORY!" - The Chronicle of Higher Education
The author of works on subjects as wide-ranging as Alfred Hitchcock, 9/11, opera, Christianity, Lenin and David Lynch, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek is one of the most important-and outrageous-cultural theorists working today. This captivating, erudite documentary explores the eccentric personality and esoteric work of this incomparable academic and writer who has been called everything from "the Elvis of cultural theory" to "a one person culture mulcher".
ZIZEK! trails the eminent and intrepid thinker as he crisscrosses the globe-racing from New York City lecture halls, traversing the streets of Buenos Aires, pit-stopping at his home in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In transit, Zizek obsessively reveals the invisible workings of ideology through a unique blend of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxism and pop culture critique. He is also unafraid to turn his critical gaze on himself, offering cutting commentary on his personality, private life and growing inter-national celebrity.
ZIZEK! is both an unforgettable lesson in philosophy and a compelling portrait of an intellectual maverick. Possessing the capacity to appeal to the uninitiated in a way no other philosopher before him could, Slavoj Zizek's combination of high and low culture will fascinate even those who once believed philosophy to be a bore.
WATCH THE TRAILER: <http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/trailers.php>
SLAVOJ ZIZEK WILL APPEAR IN PERSON ON FRIDAY 18!
EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT NOVEMBER 18-24
IFC CENTER
323 6th Ave at West 3rd St 212-924-7771 <http://www.ifccenter.com/>
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