Zizek: AdWord for the DIA?

[frandroid]

This fun Zizek interview has U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency recruitment ad at bottom:




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Q: Have you ever said 'I love you' and not meant it?

A: All the time. When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.

Comments

[dubaiwalla.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I've ever read an interview quite like that one.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read Zizek before? I'm assuming you have, but if you haven't, welcome to a whole new world. Other than being a Lacanian, he's mountains of fun. There was a documentary that was made about him, that was pretty good. He was also featured recently in a documentary named The Examined Life in which he expounded on the relationship between garbage and nature, and how ecologism is the new conservatism. He's also had a TV show/TV lecture series called The Pervert's Guide to Cinema which is wholly entertaining. He's the master of the intellectual one-liner.

And oh, he's a Stalinist.

[compasspoints.livejournal.com]

yeah, he's such a wild card in so many ways. i love his last 'secret' comment.

he just seems so zestfully sour, yet endearing, all the fricking time!

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was going to post it in this entry, and then I realized, wait, I'm spoiling the fun!! :) I suspect editing by the interviewer got this one at the end for greater punch value.

He makes you want to be proud to be a lefty in spite of the failures of communism and socialism.

[sabotabby]

lolwhut

Besides everything else, I refused to believe that Zizek doesn't have sex.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

With that supermodel-cum-philosopher of a wife, too?

Methinks they have non-masturbatory kind of sex with each other. Often.

[drinzy.livejournal.com]

That must mean I love everybody