How is he perceived in academia? Is he only a meme? Are his books worthy of reading?
>>7975025
MEME MAN
>>7975025
Well, since academia is a meme too, I think he might be appreciated.
We are living in the age of MEME.
>>7975025
Not really taught to undergrads unless they're doing theory or a prof thinks an example of a Zizek youtube clip adds to the particular lecture.
I assume grad students studying Hegel or Marx would be dealing with him pretty directly.
I think many profs haven't fully gone back from Heidegger-Derrida to Hegel, at least not in the dogmatist sense Zizek wants.
Uni Uppsala here. Known to all but discussed by none. Then again, I'm not at the Department of Philosophy.
hes a crack addict leftist fascist desu
He has so many great points, and truly enlightened philosophies that transcend the norm. He makes you look at the world from a unique perspective that makes you think he might have grasped "it", how much can be grasped by our minds in fleeting moments when our logic exceeds our consciousness. Then, just when you begin to grin, he starts on some idiotic cringe worthy rant against capitolism and you raise he's just another leftist intellectual idiot unable to grasp the simplest of economics, which is much more practical than "ideology". So, fuck him, for having the ability to use logic, but not reason.
>>7975025
American Liberal Arts school, Professors are interested in him as a personality, film profs love him, cultural profs don't really buy into anything he says.
Students are unaware of who he is. Only 2-3 other people probably know who he is.
>>7975025
why don't you just
read zizek
>>7975255
>muh economics is a hard science
There is plenty wrong with communism, but if you look at economic models made by post-Marxists, you'll see that they are capable of keeping the current consumer and service based economy (as opposed to the old socialist production based one that crashed and burned) through self-management of the workers. This doesn't solve all our problems, but it does change the political focus away from politicized dualisms (public-private, national-global, etc.) so tl;dr some things truly are political first and foremost and I'm guessing Zizek knows this since such a model is advocated by his friend Varoufakis.
Unless you just enjoy bourgeois overlords, in which case, as /pol/ puts it: "cuuuck!".
>>7975373
Has Zizek ever seriously written about alternative economic models?
I feel his Post-marxist collegues are more reputable than himself, I'm quite fond of Mouffe and Lacleu myself. I read Violence for one of my courses on urban conflict and found it mostly impenetrable and trite, never heard of any of my profs refer to him
>>7975373
>self management of workers
>working economic model
People need genuine and unbiased incentive, with management decisions based on pa st performance, not popularity.
There are 2 economic models that work.
>slightly regulated capitalism by tightly restrained government
>a perfect all knowing machine
Anyone who says differently is selling something.
>>7975399
where do the philosopher-kings come in?
>>7975373
workers are too dumb dumb stupid to run their own collective businesses
>>7975453
Plato drivel. Its the foundation of our modern progressive nonsense. A few really in people just know what's good for us. Yeah fuck that.
There are professors I know of in the UK that have written scholarly works about him, so I imagine there are in continental Europe as well. Besides that, no idea.
The Marxists in my department love him. One of them interviewed him for some book once. He's ignored by everyone else, though.
>>7975399
In what way is that first option working right now? Leading us to ecological disaster and resource depletion?
>>7975160
>I assume grad students studying Hegel or Marx would be dealing with him pretty directly.
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>>7975392
Not sure, but Laclau kinda mocked him for being too close to orthodox Marxism, which made Zizek go "b-but I always liked you senpai!" when asked about it.
>>7975399
>>7975455
Well it probably involves a shares system, which allows managerial positions as well, rather than just collaborative meetings between workers. On a similar topic, Hannah Arendt quoted some French sociologist that pretty much said "workers enjoy their boring repetitive jobs just because they required no mental effort whatsoever".
As for genuine incentive, it's not as easy in capitalism either. Money has its limits.
>>7975481
Both fear mongering political tools, like "micro racism" and "income inequality". There used to be slavery, deforresting, over fishing, etc. Now we've got some of the most responsible fishing market in the world, with recovering fish numbers, but a Washington University puts out a study on shirt selective outdated data that proves all saltwater fish will be dead in 20 years. Shit like that has created a backlash. The intellectual liberal class is losing credibility fast, with their scare tactics. They're as bad as jehovahs witnesses at predicting the end of the world. In any event, central economic planning is irrelevant in terms of comparing ethical environmental decisions. Kind of like getting lung cancer so instead of quitting smoking you stop wearing Nike shoes and switch to Rebock. Individual economic models can exist in either responsible ethic a l models or irresponsible ethic models. Switching doesn't garuntee an adoption of ethics any more than not switching prohibits it.
>>7975025
He's my fav bae.
>>7975511
My God, pure ideology.
>>7975025
his books are by no means worthy of reading.
they're books. they don't even have eyes.
>>7975025
He's really big among the pseudo-intellectual sphere. Mostly because he uses so many pop-culture references to make his points.
I'm not knocking the pop-culture thing. Foucault did the same. Zizek just does it shittily.
>>7975711XD
>>7975160
Undergrad here. Taking a grad course with him next semester. I'll come back and report.
ZIZEK THREAD!
>>7975037
juicy
>>7975184
they have philosophy in uppsala ?
>>7975713
>Zizek just does it shittily.
Why
>>7975713
>I'm an analytic
REEEEEEEEEE
He's very frequently cited by academics writing on the Balkans, since he's written a lot which is relevant for topics like "Balkanism" and the particular political situation of ex-Yugoslavia. I come across him a lot in this context, but since it isn't really his main field of interest I only dip into his work here and there for theoretical elaboration. I've tried reading some of his books out of general meme interest but I think you need to be familiar with psychoanalysis to have a clue about what he's talking about.
