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Moving Pictures
The Matrix Way of Knowledge
The Philosophy of the MatrixThe Philosophy of the Matrix
The most interesting thing about the New Yorker's May 2003 profile of Slavoj Zizek was the suggestion that the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, whose mitteleuropan mug gazed out at us with an expression at once shocked and bemused, was actually a comedian. And indeed, Zizek's hyperactive video-clerk neo-Hegelianism has become something of a shtick by now, his most characteristic rhetorical move--the paradoxical switcheroo, whereby X in fact turns out to be Y inside-out--a punch line in analytic disguise. But... -
Religions and Spirits
Slavoj Zizek’s The Puppet and the Dwarf
Turning Christianity upside downTurning Christianity upside down
The most interesting thing about the New Yorker's May 2003 profile of Slavoj Zizek was the suggestion that the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, whose mitteleuropan mug gazed out at us with an expression at once shocked and bemused, was actually a comedian. And indeed, Zizek's hyperactive video-clerk neo-Hegelianism has become something of a shtick by now, his most characteristic rhetorical move--the paradoxical switcheroo, whereby X in fact turns out to be Y inside-out--a punch line in analytic disguise. But... -
Mind and Philosophy
Descartes and the Matrix
Cogito in the MatrixCogito in the Matrix
The most interesting thing about the New Yorker's May 2003 profile of Slavoj Zizek was the suggestion that the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, whose mitteleuropan mug gazed out at us with an expression at once shocked and bemused, was actually a comedian. And indeed, Zizek's hyperactive video-clerk neo-Hegelianism has become something of a shtick by now, his most characteristic rhetorical move--the paradoxical switcheroo, whereby X in fact turns out to be Y inside-out--a punch line in analytic disguise. But...