Comments on: In the crisis of global capitalism even Zizek makes sense

By: Francis Sedgemore

Francis Sedgemore — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:34:16 +0000

Yes; plays double bass in a skiffle group. Hair like a duck’s arse.

By: mikeovswinton

mikeovswinton — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:48:24 +0000

Didn’t Mark Kermode used to present Buzzcocks before Simon Amstell? Fifties throwback?

By: Francis Sedgemore

Francis Sedgemore — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:24:40 +0000

For all his love for Uncle Joe, I fear that your average Stalinist would happily bury a hacek in Žižek’s skull.

As for the vid, Anja, have you tried searching YouTube?

Mike – I don’t make a point of watching interviews with wibbling Slovenian marxists, but being a culcha vulcha I do make a point of watching The Culture Show. Lauren Laverne – hot!; Mark Kermode – steamin’!

By: Gaw

Gaw — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:45:14 +0000

Sadly Anja, some of us don’t have enough haceks in our life to justify your ploy. But thanks for educating me as to what they’re called: I look forward to doing my next hacek job.

By: Anja

Anja — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:15:56 +0000

My trick with the haceks in “Zizek” (here without hacek) is to type of whole line of hacecked zeds and then fill in whatever else I want to write in-between. That way, you save the unnerving business of copying and pasting single characters. Believe me: I speak from experience!

Actually, forcing people to come up with ploys like that could well be the adaptive function of this diacritical mark (and might just help to explain its prevalence in former communist countries).

By: mikeovswinton

mikeovswinton — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:02:24 +0000

Watching Zizek interviews, Francis? Are you short of pseudo-intellectual snake oil?

By: Anja

Anja — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:44:27 +0000

Damn it – the interview is “not available in your area”! That is, “our area”.

By: Francis Sedgemore

Francis Sedgemore — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:35:08 +0000

He doesn’t approve of dope smokers either. If it’s a choice between Žižekian communism and hades, I’ll take the latter, any day.

By: SnoopyTheGoon

SnoopyTheGoon — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:31:28 +0000

Yeah, a philosophically-minded standupist, the thing we have been craving for for years…

Anyways, he also has something on vegetarians, but I am in a charitable mood today, and will only mention Marx in this regards ;-)

By: Francis Sedgemore

Francis Sedgemore — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:42:59 +0000

Never mind Žižek's parting words to Mason, "See you in hell … or communism.", during which I thought his head would explode, perhaps the most terrifyingly amusing thing in the interview is the scatty Slovenian pointing to a picture of Stalin, and saying words to the effect of: "He was just this guy, you know.". Next up, Žižek on how "Pol Pot only ever wanted to be a train driver.".