Response to ‘Slavoj Žižek and the Recycling Superstition’
In this response to my previous post (Slavoj Žižek and the Recycling Superstition) I address the ‘the Rs of sustainability’; continue my examination of Žižek’s notion of superstition and his invocation of the ‘paradox of the performative’; and link to a backlight.vpro.nl video in which Žižek is interrogated by giant video screens.
All Quiet on the Western Front
In this post I discuss the recent lack of activity at jonathanwaring.net, and then comment on some possible titles for future examinations, including: ‘Scientology and the ARC Triangle: The Value of Systematising’; ‘Anarchism and Libertarianism’ and ‘What if Hitler was Right: On the Importance of Interrogating Wrong Ideas’.
Getting the look of this blog right is going to prove a challenge
I’ve now tried out a variety of WordPress themes and I’m not really happy with any of them. All those I’ve installed have had at least one attribute in their favour, but then they’ve all then had more things going against them. I don’t really want to get bogged down editing themes (or getting into […]