i am wary of zizek, as one should be.

zizek is a product that keeps on reproducing itself, in slightly different forms. this is a trick of late capitalism, it keeps reinventing itself and marketing itself in a slightly different way, but the essence remains the same.

zizek’s schtick is that he is a supersmart guy continuously and randomly firing bullets, some of which hit the target and some of which hit unintended targets, and some of which are blanks.

when he says that the whole point of psychoanalysis is that you don’t know what you are! [^times] and so the idea that you can know what you are and become what you say you are is deeply problematic, it’s right on target, but then he makes the mistake of making a connection with trans people and a 75 year old white guy should avoid at all costs a battle with an army of people 25 and 50 years younger than him who feel that they do know who and what they are and/or who want to become who and what they say they are, because you will lose. but you will sell a lot of books, and he writes a lot of books, and you will debate jordan henderson and people will pay $300 on eBay for a ticket.

but i am always interested in the idea of a religious life and what that could mean and though i wouldn’t pay tuppence for the book i would leaf through Christian Atheism (his 50th!) in a bookshop, Christian Atheism because i too am very interested Badiou’s concept of the Event’.