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Tuesday, Apr 29, 2003
Laibach and Think of Lublajana
This week's New Yorker has a profile of Slavoj Zizek, but it's not (yet?) available on their site. I first heard of him when my sister emailed me Welcome to the Desert of the Real a few days after its publication in 2001. Its irreverent tone was like a slap in the face back then, but it still has some weight to its analysis of America's own shock and awe. A fuller bibliography shows Zizek's much wider interests, including pop culture. He's a philosopher-theoretician who ran for the Presidency of Slovenia and lost, who was offered a cabinet position but refused to consider anything but Minister of the Interior or Chief of the Secret Police. He (a Lacanian) says that:
The great battle in Slovenian politics is between the Lacanians, who run the civil service, and the Heideggerians, who dominate the military.Maybe Slovenia won't be such a bad place to live when Americans all live in permanent anticipation of terror alerts.