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by tim @ 3/24/2005 9:00 pm

The Wrong Side of Capitalism’s international network of philosophy paparazzi have come up with the goods: pictures of Žižek’s wedding, from some kind of Argentinian Hello equivalent.

Family members, Lacanian or otherwise, wish the couple well Who would be a better man to support Žižek down the aisle than the editor of a prestigious Lacanian journal? A large gentleman ensures Žižek doesn't give up on his desire In depth coverage of Žižek and Analia's wedding In depth coverage of Žižek and Analia's wedding Žižek and Analia The couple and Analia's parents Analia's father walks her up the aisle The couple make their vows in front of a lacanian, or priest, or both Did you get your invitation to the wedding?

Apparently, Žižek got cold feet and fled just before the wedding. Luckily, his fiancée’s parents are lacanians, so they sent some heavies to make sure Žižek didn’t give up on his desire.

 

80 comments

  1. And there we have it: more proof that most politics is showing off, and most intellectuals just want to impress chicks. Seems to have worked for him.

    Comment by Alistair @ 3/25/2005 7:46 am

  2. my god, he looks so rough.

    Comment by pog @ 3/25/2005 2:16 pm

  3. Tabloid psychoanalysis
    Remediated from Adam Kotsko and wrong side of capitalism . I suspect that this isn’t going to do much tohelp Z’s reputation as a serious materialist philosopher–or domuch to reinvigorate interest inSaturday Night Fever.

    Trackback by I cite @ 3/25/2005 4:37 pm

  4. Ding dong, re. Z’s Argentine crumpet.

    Comment by Victor S @ 3/26/2005 12:29 am

  5. I agree with Pog. That must have been some stag do.

    Any truth in the rumour that Keith Richards wants to hire him to stand next to him at all times, to make himself look healthier?

    Comment by Darren @ 3/26/2005 2:55 pm

  6. Zizek Wedding Pics
    Posted by Missy Proctor, WB ‘03 Informed sources tell me that the bride is the 26-year-old daughter of two Argentinian Lacanian psychologists who is also an accomplished graduate student and former underwear model. Gawwwd!…

    Trackback by Wealth Bondage @ 3/29/2005 1:41 pm

  7. Remainders: All Academic Edition
    · Theory župeržtar Slavoj Žižek and his žexy new bride. The wedding theme was Hitchcock; the band was Flaming Lipž….

    Trackback by Gawker @ 3/29/2005 9:48 pm

  8. He doesn’t just look rough… he looks rather upset about the whole affair. Perhaps her parents ought not have brought him back?

    Comment by Justin ABBOTT @ 3/30/2005 4:50 pm

  9. Did anyone else notice that her name appears to be “Analia”? Please tell me that this is Argentine Spanish for a kind of flower… or something… otherwise, what could be read into this?

    Comment by Justin ABBOTT @ 3/30/2005 4:55 pm

  10. Žižek wedding photos
    I will not bother trying to beat this Gawker comment on the theory-star wedding of Slavoj Žižek. Theory župeržtar Slavoj Žižek and his žexy new bride. The wedding theme was Hitchcock; the band was Flaming Lipž….

    Trackback by Ghost of a flea @ 4/1/2005 1:34 pm

  11. The Elvis of Cultural Theory Has Left the Building…
    …with bride in tow, no less.

    Trackback by Acephalous @ 4/1/2005 8:11 pm

  12. I can’t believe it! I went to school with analia …and by that time she was a model, and it was so pathetic the way she wanted to prove that she was some kind of intelectual. well, aperently: she did it! (be careful what u wish for, for both of them. anyway, hope that soemthing good come out of this….who knows!

    Comment by lena @ 4/2/2005 1:37 am

  13. Hi, I am a Lacanian fan. I’m doing my thesis now on Lacan and Philippine films. I came to know of Jacques Lacan through Slavoj Zizek. How can I contact him? Do you have Zizek’s email address? Thank you so much.

    Comment by Fr. Loreto A. Jaque @ 4/2/2005 3:58 am

  14. No veo cuál es el problema…

    Comment by rodrigo g @ 4/2/2005 6:31 am

  15. Ah, yes the syndrome of the male’s 50’s crisis. Might as well make it a good one before the next repetition!

    Comment by jj @ 4/2/2005 6:52 am

  16. Yeah, rodrigo, I don’t think there’s a problem either. But the pictures are kind of funny. Loreta, I don’t have Žižek’s email address, sorry. Maybe Lacan.com would have it, though.

    Lena - I’ve heard conflicting reports about Ms Hounie’s intellectual stature. Well, she’s a graduate student, or possibly a PhD by now, so presumably she’s by no means dumb. But I’ve heard reports she’s a real genius, and also reports that, erm, she’s not. I suppose it’s really none of my business, but I’ve been perverted by celebrity culture.

    Comment by Tim @ 4/2/2005 10:16 am

  17. Actually she is five thousand years old and renews her youth by sucking the souls from the men she marries.

    She had nearly finished with him, but was interrupted by the stylist…

    OR

    Actually he is five thousand years old and renews his youth by sucking the souls from the beautiful young women he marries. Tonight he will be strong again!

    OR

    Actually they are a pair from frumps who own a laundramat in Minnesota. They have been heavily photoshopped so the magazine could claim a scoop.

    Comment by david tiley @ 4/3/2005 3:46 pm

  18. never said that it wa wrong what they did. Reed twice. I just told what I experineced by been at school with analia. The pathetic way sehe wanted to show how smart she was all the time, in any momnet, saying all rhe books she read in any situation, like talking aboout wheather. But then again, she was not stupid at all, in fact…she used to write preaty good.
    Is it reall love? well…who can (dares) throw the first stone? I wouldn’t!

    Comment by lena @ 4/3/2005 9:00 pm

  19. Leave him alone, it should be love, nothing else. They do not now what they know…

    Comment by Sinan Evcan @ 4/4/2005 9:24 pm

  20. I meant they do not know what they know

    Comment by Sinan Evcan @ 4/4/2005 9:25 pm

  21. Why are there so many mean comments? Is it envy or a pathetic inability to feel joy when someone is getting married? Do you, folks, really think that making a nasty comment makes you look smarter?

    And congratulations to the couple!

    Comment by Alex @ 4/5/2005 7:43 am

  22. He looks wretched! She looks grand! She must be in love with his mind which is always a good thing. I wonder what he is in love with ;)

    Comment by Ms. World @ 4/5/2005 7:45 am

  23. Her wedding dress rocks!

    Comment by Ms. World @ 4/5/2005 7:49 am

  24. everybody wants to fuck Zizek

    Comment by somebody @ 4/6/2005 12:35 am

  25. Why is he wearing white? It so fattening

    Comment by Tom Loveday @ 4/6/2005 12:51 am

  26. Never underestimate man’s roots. White suit, aka “belo odelo” holds a very special place of prestige in the former Yugo-culture(s). It is reserved for folk/pop-stars that started out in the gutter (roadside bar on the highway Belgrade-Nis, so called Ibarska magistrala), and climbed to the glory. White suite is Balkaniana in all its splendour. Zizek’s nod to the glorious predecessors who made it to the top with songs celebrating drunkenness, cursing feminine beauty and cruelty, and crying for maternal love.

    Comment by ab @ 4/6/2005 10:21 pm

  27. He looks like Repin’s painting of Mussorgsky (the Boris Gudunov person) on his deathbed g. It’s strictly coincidental that I have this picture up on my website right now. I didn’t come here to blogwhore, but targets of opportunity, etc.

    Comment by John Emerson @ 4/6/2005 11:10 pm

  28. Anybody else notice James Carville in the photo that’s on the top left hand??? Anybody know why James Carville might be hanging out at Slavoj’s wedding???

    Comment by LH @ 4/7/2005 4:51 am

  29. hilarious, LH! i’ve never seen a photo of miran bozovic before, but damn if he doesn’t look like the ragin’ cajun…

    Comment by andrew ascherl @ 4/7/2005 7:58 pm

  30. Thank You all on congratulating me on my wedding. I will soon produce a book that depicts my wedding story and how me and my wife met. It will also follow the psychoanalytical propositon ideological perspective that inhabits revolutionary politics.

    - Slavoj

    Comment by SLAVOJ ZIZEK @ 4/13/2005 8:07 pm

  31. I`m a German professor, teaching psychoanalysis in Chile and would like to contact S. Zizek. Does anybody know his current address (since he travels a lot) or email?

    Comment by Niklas Bornhauser @ 4/13/2005 10:19 pm

  32. I feel only envy. It’s the perfect coupling: fame & beauty.

    Comment by adam jasper @ 4/16/2005 5:00 am

  33. Zizek is looking like something out of Tales From the Crypt. He looks like fifty miles of rough road … “wake me up when it’s over” he said and climbed back into his coffin.

    Comment by Melanie @ 4/19/2005 4:33 am

  34. Zizek: Film & Marriage
    Slavoj Zizek is a newlywed. He said, “I do!”, to a girl that must be less than half his age in Argentina. The Wrong Side of Capitalism has some more pics. Besides, he has a new documentary just out….

    Trackback by Testblog @ 4/21/2005 9:28 pm

  35. ‘’Belo odelo'’ is a serbian phrase. Slavoj comes from Slovenia. Slovenians use phrase ‘’bela obleka'’ not ‘’belo odelo'’. So don’t be so smart.

    Comment by Bebo @ 4/22/2005 6:08 pm

  36. who the fuck is the fat bearded dude who looks like stephen spielberg on crack? how the fuck did i get here here anyway?

    Comment by zvezdan popolopovic @ 4/24/2005 12:05 pm

  37. You can try this email:
    slavoj.zizek@guest.arnes.si

    Comment by Kat MacKintosh @ 4/28/2005 1:32 am

  38. Hello there chaps. ID LIKE TO POINT OUT THE CRUELTY OF SOME OF OTHER PEOPLES POSTS U OFFENDING MY HUBBY WHY??? HEAR ME SPEAK ALL.

    We meeted at the bitch. He said “SHAKE DAT TING! SHAKE DAT BOOTY!” in Slovakian accent, he got impress of my thong :shy: :shy: any way, i before read his books i lyked “Critic of Pure Reason” the most from his opusses

    Beaty / Fame??? Yes!

    he love my soul too, so stop envy!! now!!

    why you say “who the fuck is the fat bearded dude who looks like stephen spielberg on crack? how the fuck did i get here here anyway?” ??? HE LOOKS HANDSOM IN HIS BELO ODELO, HELLO?? hear me speak

    consiga por favor informado sobre cosas antes de hablar!!!
    hole hole!!!
    vamos a yugar a la playa
    PUETA!!!

    Comment by Analia @ 5/11/2005 3:01 pm

  39. Is it Joan Copjec there on the photo with Santner and Bozovic? Ain’t she hot….

    Comment by The Idiot @ 5/11/2005 4:14 pm

  40. My professor told me to read some of this guys work and I stumbled on to this web site. Funny—I wonder if the posting from the married couples are real…real funny if so…She is so young…He is so old…make me think that as an older woman in this day and age marrying someone my age probably won’t happen every older person looks for some half there age now a day…I guess partnership goes beyond age…Ha Ha Ha…Many things I wasn’t told of before…..

    Comment by Jamie Garcia @ 5/24/2005 8:53 pm

  41. Please put the essays back online! And my best wishes to the married couple. Barbara

    Comment by Barbara @ 5/27/2005 11:00 pm

  42. you a big lie

    Comment by Ratia @ 6/7/2005 9:42 pm

  43. Congratulations to Slavoj on this great accomplishment. I don’t know where you all get off trying to denigrate a man whose intellect none of you are likely to match, but as George Bernard Shaw put it, those who can, do. (Those who can’t, teach, or in this case, preach). The girl is beautiful and so is Slavoj’s mind - and if he brings her just a fragment of the enjoyment he brings his readers, they’re set for a good tenure together. That’s all we can know and presume, and, on that basis, I wish them all the best. I only hope I can pick up women of that calibre when I reach his age… but then maybe knowing something about Lacan (and Zizek) wll help?

    Comment by GWL @ 6/18/2005 5:41 pm

  44. Sorprendentemente llenos de envidia muchos de los comentarios
    parecen copias de entertaiment tonight o algún programa semejante
    ¿era necesaria tanta insidia?
    ¿o es algo extraño que un hombre o una mujer decidan casarse?
    De este personaje público me interesa más su obra que su intimidad
    ( ¿ o debería decir extimidad?)
    un fuerte abrazo a los novios desde Chile
    saludos
    José Chávez

    Comment by José Julio Chávez @ 6/22/2005 2:53 am

  45. Must we thereby not deduce that Zizek is a man who has not ceded on his desire, who has gone all the way? Grimacing in his white marriage suit, he represent psychoanalytic ethics on the move. The notion of “persevering in desire” has been thoroughly conquered here; to the subsiding past marriage, he opposes the aphrodisiac virtues of tomorrow’s marriage. No contradiction between life and thought, this marriage leads back to a desire that projects, and projects itself; to a desire dinintegrated by hope.
    By inculcating us with a horror of extravagant, pathetic language, Zizek has made a hundred sublimities vulgar. If Zizek plans a book on how this woman won him over or he her, their love should equally be treated harshly, promosed a perilous analysis. I would look forward to such an episode in autobiography.

    Comment by slawney @ 6/29/2005 3:45 pm

  46. AT FIRST I THOUGHT THAT THE WEDDING OF THE FAMOUS LACANIAN ZIZEK WITH A GIRL CALLED ANALIA WAS SOME KIND OF PSYCHOANALITICAL JOKE,THE KIND OF JOKE YOU CAN FIND IN HIS BOOKS.

    AFTER THAT I SPECULATED WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF A PUBLICITY COMPAIGN OF THE WORLDWIDE LACANIAN SECT AND SECTARIAN ACADEMIC PUBLISHING HOUSES LIKE “VERSO” AND “ROUTLEDGE” AS A PART OF THEIR MEDIAMINDED STRATEGY TO MAKE THAT MIXTIFYING HODGE-PODGE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PHILOSOPHY IN WHICH THEY SPECIALISE MORE GLAMOROUS.

    FINALLY I SET TO CONCLUSION THAT ZIZEK IS ,IN SPITE OF ALL HIS INTELLIGENCE, A SIMPLE OPPORTUNIST.
    HE SPEAKS OF RADICAL ACTS , LENIN AND ST. PAUL BUT THE FACT THAT HE CHOOSES FOR HIS HABITAT THE WEALTHY ARGENTINIAN FAMILIES IS AT LEAST SOMETHING THAT NEITHER LENIN NOR ST. PAUL WOULD DO.

    SO ÉZIZEK IS ALL EMPTY PREACHING,DOUBLE-TALK,AND I THINK THAT IN PHILOSOPHY HE IS THE EQUIVALENT OF TONY BLAIR IN POLITICS-BIG AND LOUD AND CLEVER LIER.

    HIS BOOK ON DELEUZE IS A PURE BULLSHIT AND IT SEEMS THAT HE EVEN DIDN’T READ ONE WHOLE BOOK OF THE GREAT FRENCH PHILOSOPHER (WHY WOULD HE WHEN HE WROTE A WHOLE CHAPTER IN “ENJOY YOUR SYMPTOME” ON ROSSELINI WITHOUT WATCHING ONE WHOLE FILM DIRECTED BY HIM?)
    HE RECENTLY SAID THAT IN HIS WRITING TEAM ARE WORKING 5 PEOPLE SO IT EXPLAINS WHY THE WHOLE FRAGMENTS OF SEVERAL PAGES ARE RECYCLED FROM ONE BOOK TO ANOTHERÉFOR CHRIST’S SAKE THE GUY IS NOT EVEN WRITING HIS OWN STUFFÉ
    WHO ARE HIS GHOSTWRITERS?
    WHY NOBODY CRITICISE LOUDLY THE ZIZEK’S OBVIOUSLY WEAK BOOK ON DELEUZE?
    WHY HIS BOOKS THAT SHOULD PROMOTE THE IDEAS OF THE LEFT AND THAT SHOULD BE ACCESIBLE TO THE UNDERPRIVILEDGED CLASSES ARE SO EXPENSIVE?

    I THINK THAT IT IS TIME FOR THE REAL RADICAL ACT-TO FORM “ANTI-ZIZEK LEFT LEAGUE” IN WHICH ALL THE PEOPLE WITH THE IDEALS OF THE LEFT POLITICS COULD FIGHT AGAINST INFLUENCE OF ZIZEKIAN VIRUS WITHIN LEFT INTELECTUAL CIRCLES AND SPIRALS.

    I OFFER HERE MY EMAIL ADDRES (borismailer@yahoo.com) FOR ALL INTERESTED IN FIGHT AGAINST ZIZEKISM TO CONTACT ME AND TRY TO FORM ON THE INTERNET A REASONABLE FORCE AGAINST TABLOID COMUNISM.

    Comment by boris @ 7/9/2005 11:01 pm

  47. What a cunt

    Comment by Lisa @ 7/14/2005 2:10 pm

  48. SLAVOJ– u’s a PIMP. TAP THAT ASS

    Comment by Curry @ 7/22/2005 3:37 pm

  49. forgot something…ZIZEK LOOKS SO HOT IN THAT PIC!! I LOVE U SLAVOJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ. TAKE ME WITH U TO LJUBLJANA!!!

    Comment by Curry @ 7/22/2005 3:40 pm

  50. CHINGAME SLAVOJ. SOY UN MEXICANO, QUIERO CHINGARTE. ANAL-IA TU ERES UNA PUTA PARA TOMANDA MI SLAVOJ AFUERA DE MI CASA PARA UN PASEO.

    ANALIA, YOU’S A BITCH. SLAVOJ IS MINE. BACK OFF PUTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Comment by MARIA ANTONIO SANCHEZ DOMINGO PEREZ JR @ 7/22/2005 3:46 pm

  51. I think I’m in love with Boris!

    Comment by catherine liu @ 7/26/2005 10:28 pm

  52. The old philosopher looks for the young beauty as far as he’s concerned with death. Plato has said that philosophy is the way to prepare our death, via mortis. When I saw this beautyfull girl next to Slavoj Zizek I coudn’t avoid to remember how Socrates looked for Alcibiades. This is the best side of philosophy.

    Comment by Claudio Zapata @ 7/27/2005 4:47 pm

  53. Zizek, you have saved my life, and my school’s reputation many of times, the stuff you write is purely orgasmic. I heard that it was your wife that really wrote the Kinky stuff in your books, either way Mozeltov!

    Comment by icanusebigwords2 @ 7/27/2005 7:02 pm

  54. What are you people whining? Nice to see that
    some philosophers are not leftist bores and
    are flowing with their Will.

    Thumbs up to Zizek! Although he could
    eat & drink healthier - might affect
    his philosophies a little bit… 8)

    btw,

    You wake on the wrong side of capitalism?
    Wake up REALLY, stop watching the tv and
    imagining that you can turn the samsara
    into paradise! Concentrate creating and
    doing something that *empowers* YOU to
    do what you Will.

    Freedom is inside you, if you drop your
    over-rationalizing and whining MIND - the only
    talk we need is talk on spiritual an-archIsm
    and how to learn to meditate - before we leave
    these bodies into other planes of existence.
    If we Will, that is.

    I (k)now I’m going.

    _-*-_

    However,
    good vibes to you.

    Comment by Omas Ktarone @ 7/31/2005 10:28 pm

  55. I was sitting in the shade of the forgotten park, quietly until she came along. A fight followed,we ripped him in two. Rag doll lying on the ground didn’t even shed a tear.

    Comment by Nubia @ 8/4/2005 8:27 pm

  56. Sorry to spoil the party, folks. It’s AnalÃ?a, not Analia. This signifier does not slip that way except in the Anglosaxon spirit of the letter.

    But you may be right. I think he actually desired the Father. I think the castration was felt on the phallus on the wedding night.

    Comment by Daniel @ 8/5/2005 9:00 pm

  57. whoa — he may have stature but no posture, that is for certain. Check out the “I do!” photo - his body looks like a fucking question mark…or perhaps his spine is made of Slovakian cheese which grew soft in the Argentinian heat. In any event, I will be forwarding a back-brace with a big white ribbon round it…

    Comment by Maureen @ 8/30/2005 8:47 am

  58. Let your particularistic findings turn into a universalistic source of knowledge! Freely available to under-priviledged classes! Why Zizek did not write a word about free open source movement and projects such as Wikipedia on internet? Because he is big fat capitalist svine making profits from his leftist texts about his truth, but the Real Truth of his leftism is the price of his books. Wikipedia on the other hand is for free!

    Comment by Anti-capitalist @ 9/2/2005 4:45 am

  59. HEY, YA little trash-pit, think you so Sppecial!

    Comment by Freelance @ 9/19/2005 11:39 am

  60. HEY, YA little trash-pit, think you so Sppecial!

    Comment by Freelance @ 9/19/2005 11:39 am

  61. Ok,first of all,Boris thanks, you may be right, but it sounds too me there’s always more behind the scene like Zizek usually wants to pretend (and that’s how he’s made his living so far, isn’t it?). So maybe it isn’t giving as much money anymore and had to resort to choripan. The problem is choripan will never be as suusceptible of becoming a symbolic object like hamburgers, even though french bread and a chorizo inside makes for a lot of lucu-brication:

    Choripan
    Ingredientes
    1 Chorizo
    1 Pan Francés

    Preparación
    Se toma el chorizo y se lo pone en el horno o parrilla, hasta que el susodicho chorizo tome el típico color del chorizo asado, un color rojo oscuro. Una vez que el chorizo toma el antedicho color, se toma el pan francés, se lo corta longitudinalmente por el medio y se coloca el chorizo entre las dos capas de pan que quedan conformadas. Adicionalmente se puede condimentar con chimichurri a gusto. Una vez preparado, se sirve en un plato y se lo comen.

    My theory is…Zizek is going to wait until comments in this message board are as many as to start a new book on the power of gossip among intelectuals. He would probably take messages and classify them according to academic background, and then take Bordieu (without reading any of his books) and describe the evolution of the “distinguished” academia in the 21st century.

    And what would Analia think of all this? and her parents? and Lucía? Would they organize visits to the Quinta where they celbrated the wedding?… Slavoj, please, keep me posted…

    Comment by Delayer @ 9/27/2005 1:53 am

  62. I cant imagine Zizek really has married … if it is real..
    enjoy your symptoms Mr.Zizek.. you are not digital anymore ::))

    Comment by sundance @ 9/28/2005 3:48 pm

  63. psychoanalysis is the theory of a sick society that has necessitated psychoanalysis as praxis, said master zizek.
    psychoanalytic discourse is the compensatory joke of a sick society that has gone too far from praxis?

    Comment by teaching machine @ 10/3/2005 12:23 pm

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    19 Years Oid a Student In Nigeria.
    Sir my Father and Mother is Poor please Sir i need some test Books to fourther My Education please Sir help me Out
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    Comment by Felix .C. Emeanuwa @ 10/14/2005 3:30 am

  65. Hello,

    I am a Turkish journalist who works for NTV News Television based in Istanbul. I am trying to reach Mr. Slavoj Zizek. Does anyone know where he is teaching now or how i can reach him.
    Thank you very much.

    Best Regards,

    Nevin Sungur

    Reporter
    NTV News Television/ Istanbul

    Comment by Nevin SUngur @ 10/21/2005 7:22 am

  66. I’m a voyeur like the rest of you so I googled to get the scoop on Zizek’s wedding.

    Even more interesting than the pictures are the comments from the petty, pseudo-intellectual types who apparently despise Slavoj. I suppose it’s hard to take that there are people like Zizek out there who write great books, who are really committed to what they are doing, who make a good living from their efforts, who inform and inspire the scholarly work of so many others, and who at the same time even garner (certainly unsolicited) a bit of celebrity status as well. It’s hard not to be envious—perhaps Zizek really does have access to some secret enjoyment far exceeding anything we mere mortals could ever imagine! I must say, however, the fact that there are those who actively hate good old Slavoj comes to me as a great relief. It really would be sickening if everybody loved him—moreover it would indicate that he was losing his edge. Zizek is not about a neutral position—he is either to be loved or hated.

    So, my voyeuristic curiosity is satisfied–Slavoj landed a young and beautiful bride (good for him!). What really matters is that Zizek is one of the few people who has managed to keep coming up with new and original critical theory by doing the same thing over and over—that is by maintaining a sustained dialogue with Lacan. Zizek seems to be one of the few thinkers of our time who is able to say anything effective in terms of the political potential of Christianity and Socialism-Leninism. More specifically he seems to be about the only person able to give us any really enlightening insights on the present situation in Iraq. All this comes of course from the fact that Zizek thinks outside of the liberal-democratic box—something easy to claim, but quite difficult to accomplish, i.e. something that requires a commitment to a systematic theory of the social and a thorough critique of the psychologistic, historicist and nominalist views that hold sway over much of academic thought.

    I heard Zizek give a talk at a conference once and became all the more impressed by him. Most of the content of the talk was material I had already read in his books. What was most impressive, however, was his generosity in handling questions and comments from the audience—which on that particular occasion ranged from the mediocre to the outright clueless. Zizek handled the questions with grace and kindness—he certainly seemed more interested in teaching the audience something (through a quirky mixture of seriousness and levity) than showing how clever he is.

    Anyhow Zizek is the real thing—and his work is the quilting point that keeps my thought going.

    Comment by R. I. S. @ 10/22/2005 9:42 am

  67. wow! I like his work and all but I never imagined his personal life to be that juicy!

    Comment by himynameiswhat? @ 10/25/2005 4:59 pm

  68. Poor old visionary Zizek looks so bad because he has just seen the camera and anticipated this website!!! JD

    Comment by Anonymous @ 1/10/2006 11:18 pm

  69. hey. whats wrong with impressing ‘chicks’?

    Comment by Anonymous @ 1/21/2006 5:07 pm

  70. I would like to comment NR.26,
    the comment posted is totally wrong, somebody asked why white suite? and the man/girl answered because it is a kind of showing splendour, reserved just for ex yugo folk singers, please do not make me laugh so much. First of all “Belo odelo” would say someone who comes from Serbia or Monte Negro, in Žužek*s case, it is incorect, the corect answer is BELA OBLEKA. Second the Ibarska magistra does not go in direction Beograd- NiÅ¡, and third Beograd is cca. 600km from the place lived. It is not the same. And the cultural diference is huge. White dress as a symbol for someone who comes from the gutter to fame is wrong. I did not hear such a thing to be faund nowere in ex Yugoslavia and trust me i know what I am talking about.
    You schuld take some lessons on geography and some cultural studies, but Y made me laugh, good for you.
    p.s. we do not live in caves and yes what a suprice we have eletricity, heureka!
    SCIENTIA IPSA POTENTIA EST!

    Comment by petra @ 3/14/2006 1:35 pm

  71. Wow, I’ve never seen such bitter envy … Face it guys, you’ll never accomplish as much as he has.
    Žižek, car si! :)

    Comment by Vasilij @ 4/3/2006 2:31 pm

  72. Zizek has some very interesting ideas,and I was thinking of them last night in bed. You see, I think in my partner Julies’ designer eyes the bed is a three column grid, consisting of four equal columns. Two in the middle for the main content, one for navigation and one to entice you off to other exciting features. Julie obviously takes up the main content and features column. I’m hanging on in the navigation column.

    So how would Zizek see this. I don’t think there’s a conceivable connection with a Hitchcock film. However the main content area will be Ego (mans usual being/state) with the features column Superego (the infantile internalising of parental authority) and the navigation, Evil. Heavily influenced by Julie he’d see me desperately hanging to the edge of the family but rigorously trying to control it.

    So there you have it - our bed deconstructed. Thank you Mr Zizek, I’d be delighted to hear how things are going in your bed with the young intellectual you just married.

    For Julie’s picture of Zizek see: Zizek had been discussing The Matrix where there was a choice of two pills but he wanted another.

    Comment by Robin @ 4/25/2006 12:58 am

  73. Do you have Zizek’s email address?

    THat’s funny, I was just about to ask the same question elsewhere on the internet…

    Comment by Richard W @ 5/18/2006 2:49 pm

  74. Motherfucker still looks better than I do this morning (or, in fact, any morning).

    Comment by Young Werther @ 5/22/2006 1:21 am

  75. Congratulations. You’re both beautiful and productive.

    Selfishly, I hope the marriage leads to further ideas, philosophy, books and essays. I’m looking forward to your future work. Thanks.

    Comment by SLIGO GILLOAINE @ 6/15/2006 5:38 am

  76. Original masturbators of inteligence proudly anounce their next victory over realistic nothingness. Wedding is an act of acting and those who dont make it in the movies make it in popular loonies. I give both roles that these two play gold medal for being crazy.

    Comment by shitbull @ 8/11/2006 5:04 am

  77. I just came across this site. I like it.

    Zizek is a fool who knows virtually nothing about philosophy - and possibly even less about pyschoanalysis, Lacanian or otherwise. He does know quite a bit about The Matrix though. I’m not a fan of Lacan but I know a few Lacanians and an increasing number of them are getting fed up of his generalisations and general inanities.

    He is very productive: 50 books and counting, I hear. That’s because he has the confidence of the ignorant. Read one book of his (and I’ve stupidly read several) and you’ve read them all. His witless transmogrification of every subtlety and difference in the arts and philosophy into pop Hegelian and Lacanian gruel is not just lazy and wrong - it is bound to be popular for those looking for readymade answers to explain their world and to justify their actions and prejudicies. In this way, he is the Henry Ford of philosophy: you can have any colour as long as it’s black. And it leaves everyone stuck in gridlock. No wonder he loves The Lack etc: he must symbolise a space outside the fug of his bullshit.

    The fact that he is one of the most well-known and widely-read “philosophers” working today suggests that this is not a great time for academia and criticism. The Age of Idiots has finally arrived.

    Having said all that, I don’t give too much of a shit about his marrying some pretty, aristocratic Argentinian girl. Good luck to him. He may or may not be following his desire, but he seems to be enjoying himself at least. Perhaps love will release him from his Rightful Opinions and save us from them.

    Best wishes, Slavejoy. Now fuck off out off it.

    Comment by Nick @ 8/16/2006 6:40 am

  78. Talking about intellectual celebrity gossip: does anyone know if the composer Thomas Ades married this Israeli dude Tal Rosner?
    I am sure I read somewhere but can’t find any proof on the internet. What did their civil ceremony look like? did they wear white? I just have to know. Someone please help!!!!

    Comment by Hitchcock chick @ 9/9/2006 12:36 pm

  79. This is serious business, let him get to the animal stretchers * *
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    Comment by lessun @ 10/25/2006 4:51 pm

  80. Dear ‘Hitchcock Chick’
    In answer to your question about whether Thomas Ades married Tal Rosner..Yes he did. He married him on the 5th of january 2006 in a lovely ceremony in Marylebone High Street town hall. They looked beautiful together and wore fantastic suits in dark (not white).
    I was Tom’s best woman. What a lovely day it was.
    Hope that helps.

    Comment by kate.shortt @ 11/4/2006 3:46 pm

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