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Slavoj Zizek

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Philosopher

The Resume

    (March 21, 1949- )
    Born in Ljubljana, Slovenia
    Argues that ideology is a false consciousness that affects the way people see reality and that the Real isn't equivalent to what people sense, but resists people's attempt to know what it really is
    Wrote 'The Most Sublime of Hysterics: Hegel Passes' (1988), 'The Sublime Object of Ideology' (1989), 'First as Tragedy, Then as Farce' (1990), 'Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture' (1991), 'The Metastases of Enjoyment' (1994), 'The Plague of Fantasies' (1997), 'The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Center of Political Ontology' (1999), 'The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?' (2009), 'Living in the End Times' (2010), and 'Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism' (2012)
    Co-wrote 'Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left' with Judith Butler and Ernesto Laclau (2000)
    Subject of the documentaries 'Thou Shalt Love Thy Symptom as Thyself' (1996), 'The Reality of the Virtual' (2004), 'Žižek!' (2005), 'The Pervert's Guide to Cinema' (2006), 'Examined Life' (2008), and 'The Pervert's Guide to Ideology' (2012)
    Ran for president of Slovenia on the Liberal Democratic Party ticket (1990)

Why he might be annoying:

    He initially wanted to become a filmmaker, only to think he couldn't make good movies after watching really good ones.
    If everything around us isn't real, do we see and pick up something from the ground and call it 'unreal' out loud?
    His erratic way of logical thinking prevents him from making clear and well-defined arguments, resulting in ambiguity.
    He defended the idea of communism in the documentary 'Marx Reloaded' (2011).
    Newsweek accused him of plagiarizing passages from American Renaissance for an article published in 2006. (July 11, 2014)
    He has been married three times to women more than ten years younger than him.
    There were false rumors that he and Lady GaGa were dating (2011).

Why he might not be annoying:

    He has been called the 'Elvis of cultural theory' for the use of humor in his academic books.
    He spoke against the militarization of society in former Yugoslavia.
    He said that religious fundamentalists are no different from militant atheists, since both groups value divine will over ethics.
    In addition to his native Slovene, he is also fluent in English, Croatian, French, German, and Serbian.
    Unlike most of European intellectuals of the 'Universalist Left', he supports pro-sovereignty movements in Europe.
    His staunch belief in communism doesn't stop him from participating in liberal democratic projects.

Credit: Big Lenny


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 108 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 13 Votes: 92.31% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 26 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 134 Votes: 65.67% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 86 Votes: 55.81% Annoying