The Sublime Object of Ideology

"I don't know shit lmao" - Socrates......more

My word. My eyes bled. My brain thumped against the inside of my skull. I took long baths with it. I contemplated its murder. If I just drop this in the bath... This isn't a chap who wants you to argue with him. He's not one of those, "Let me be as clear as possible here" type chaps. No, he's a mons......more

Multiple times in this book Zizek states that “there is nothing behind”. This statement applies perfectly to this book: there is nothing behind this book, there are no depths at all in it, and everything takes place in a single plane – that of representation and of words without any reference. This......more

Read this only if you are insanely obsessed with Hegel, Lacan and savage jokes. I loved everything in it. Maybe my surplus leftover kernel of the Real keeps me glued to the symbolic Universe created by Zizek. Otherwise if i go too deep into Zizek,my reality might dissolve and i might get cold out th......more

Absolutely Brilliant--I had the perfect aha moment, that beautiful instance where the parts snap into place and you begin to understand his theory from the inside--where you can anticipate what zizek will say next, being able to inhabit the system of thought he's working with. I've been a quasi-fan o......more