Spotted!
Yesterday someone was clearly intrigued enough by part one of Summing Up: Žižek and Environmentalism (Sunday, October 3, 2010) that he or she made the—admittedly fairly small, but still somewhat flattering—effort to induce that the URL of the draft of part two would be the same, but end in ‘part-2’. (It doesn’t anymore.) Whoever you are (from Allendale, Michigan USA—if Google Analytics is to be believed), I hope what you read doesn’t put you off coming back for the finished version. This second part is still only at a very early stage and is mainly notes, the final series will likely reach three parts.
For those not quite so eager—but now feeling left out—part two moves across Žižek’s occasional, put unfortunately pervasive, tendency toward a loose use of anecdotal evidence (particularly in his use of scientific anecdotes), before focusing on an exploration of two of the five ‘mass extinction’ events in Earth’s history: the more well known ‘K-T extinction event’, and the—to me, far more fascinating—‘late Devonian extinction’. They are both interesting enough in their own right, so, if you’re curious, why not look them up on Wikipedia right now? Otherwise, please be patient for the next part of my post.
In the meantime, here is a recap of my two previous posts on Žižek and his perspective on environmental matters, which form the background to the current series:
- Slavoj Žižek and the Recycling Superstition – Friday, July 16, 2010
- Response to ‘Slavoj Žižek and the Recycling Superstition’ (plus development in comments) – Thursday, August 12, 2010
