Have you seen this theorist?

[saavedra77]

During late August and early September, this year, somebody started plastering walls around Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood with posters of what I swear to God is Slavoj Zizek's ugly mug:



If showing up as the featured commentator on the Children of Men DVD and writing ad copy for the Abercrombie and Fitch catalogue didn't adequately dramatize the Lacanian theorist's pop-cultural ambitions, I guess maybe someone around here figured that giving him the Andy Warhol treatment alongside posters for the Shins and the White Stripes would do it ...

Comments

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

HOW DO WE GET RID OF THIS INJUNCTION TO ENJOY!?

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

... the revolutionary return of the primordially repressed, of the traumatic Real, the Obscene Other; the irruption & politicization of capitalism's unspeakable antagonisms ...

Like that.

[aztecson23.livejournal.com]

NO way! I have got to tell my Theory prof about this. That is too funny. What next? Judith Butler t-shirts? Spivak coffee mugs? I've met Zizek, have I told you? Awesome, man.

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

No, you haven't told me about that particular adventure. What was he like? I've always imagined that he'd be kind of ... surly ... in person ...?

[aztecson23.livejournal.com]

He was more at charmingly uncouth, I think.

Take a look at my entry form March.

http://aztecson23.livejournal.com/89072.html

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

Thanks for pointing that out--sorry I missed it, the first time!