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With mr. glover and a bunch of young ladies from the esteemed "suicide girls" website...

;) the ecofad is a somewhat pernicious one as it gifts people an incredible sense of self satisfaction. i know people who feel genuinely salvationary and oppositional because they ride a bike and grew a turnip in their window box once. it is a pacifier of sorts and to that degree i take his...

...bleeding from the pants. also distracting. i'm sure slavoj fucked the woman who gave the introduction straight afterwards as well. she is definitely hot for it. sorry this is devolving into a very unintellectual consideration of zizek's cultural contributions...back on topic i do like the...

in the context of "what he does", i didn't read it that way, i don't know, his whole act is so massively contrived it's impossible to second guess any satirical intent. if there is any i'm not sure what the target would be. it's on KG tho iirc i got it off a blog someone had posted it on...

haha. yeah probably so... i dunno though...it's the constant sniffling and playing around with his face, combined with a seemingly increasing inability to stay on topic. As with his lecture, "Cocaine, a New Opium for the Masses" ;) http://www.lacan.com/zizekecologyvideo.html I find myself in...

This is so staggeringly bad even i couldn't sit through it. Gauche isn't the word. it circulates very freely on p2p, not hard to get hold of at all. pure self aggrandisement. he's just completely wrapped up in his own image, as there's nothing underneath.

An interesting and provocative thinker- though whenever i watch one of his lectures from the last couple of years everything about his delivery and mannerisms suggest he's nosed a half kilometre line of chong five seconds before he came on. it's really distracting. anyone else noticed that?

i'm starting to resent your argumentative line so i think i'll leave it here. i've distorted nothing, nor "bent over backwards" or "mixed myself up". i've engaged with the discussion, even though it has gone round in circles, and i've had to repeat my basic points several times. as i've said...

good for them; i haven't and what i have said doesn't equate to the same thing at all. if you think there's no value in ever taking a general view that precludes all but specific discussion, and the fact is these narratives vary little and can be talked about of a piece. if you disagree there's...

no, it isn't. i'm not offering semantic interpretations of real life, or equating celebrities with mythical figures. i'm talking about our fictions. fictions we have turned to for inspiration and reassurance throughout human history. i'm saying those fictions haven't changed much, though the...

nonetheless at the character's genesis he is given a "sign" like a latter day saint. how many times has a bat flown through your window? ;)

i hate superhero comics...but like any comics fan i've ended up reading loads of them. what can i say, i'm an idiot it's there in the name of the genre. to deny it seems churlish and no one has offered an alternative interpretation. the parallells are there for all to see. it's the sort of...

yes, sure. i've been waiting for that one! i suppose there's a direct element of the appeal of the socially conscious vigilante there with batman. still he is very reliant on effectively supernatural technology we are asked to believe is accessible to him as a member of society's elite.

a series which was explictly shaped by Joseph Campbells work on the resonance of heroic myths. well...yes.

of course this can be discussed purely in terms of market forces. but that is to ignore why people liked these comics as children, why these stories still appeal to children, and why cultural nostalgia has become so pervasive in the last fifteen years.

no one's to say that, but i find the flashy computer generated spectacle of these films very boring and i'd say anyone with no emotional investment in them would feel the same way. unless they literally are just sitting there watching them as one would a fireworks display. i don't mean to suck...

yes, hollywood is creatively bankrupt-i'm pretty sure we've all noticed that. i'm talking about the appeal of superheros. why is everyone so keen to take things at bald face value on here lately? as if anything beyond absolute literality is frivolous. obviously the marketing angle is very good...

I'm surprised you're even questioning it. it's far from a radical interpretation of superhero comics, its a standard one. these characters undergo some kind of gnosis that tranforms them into a supernatural being. they then proceed to use these powers to enforce a moral code. it's archetypal...

@vimothy... read some fletcher hanks

I've read both...so what?