tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post112747384285720860..comments2023-11-02T11:32:38.324+00:00Comments on The Joy of Curmudgeonry: The Simpleton's SageDeogolwulfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02197539477668018797noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-1133696661884011802005-12-04T11:44:00.000+00:002005-12-04T11:44:00.000+00:00http://www.lacan.com/passion.htmhttp://www.lacan.com/passion.htmNeil Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15119561628382452369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-1127808045220994222005-09-27T09:00:00.000+01:002005-09-27T09:00:00.000+01:00"a friend of mine likes to say that 'Nature doesn'..."a friend of mine likes to say that 'Nature doesn't shave with Occam's razor'. "<BR/><BR/>Looking at his pictures on the Web, I think you could say much the same about Zizek.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-1127803078907889642005-09-27T07:37:00.000+01:002005-09-27T07:37:00.000+01:00lemuel, a friend of mine likes to say that "Nature...lemuel, a friend of mine likes to say that "Nature doesn't shave with Occam's razor". Chainsaw neither, I'll bet.deariemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06654632450454559188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-1127721366193054512005-09-26T08:56:00.000+01:002005-09-26T08:56:00.000+01:00You've never come across David Icke on the Web, Ak...You've never come across David Icke on the Web, Akaky? He's all over the place. Basically, he was a goalkeeper for Hereford United football club (that's soccer in American money), turned BBC sports presenter, who then turned into a prophet and "son of God" in the early nineties. After a short career as the favourite laughingstock of the British media, he went on to make a fortune peddling the conspiracy theory that most world leaders are really blood-drinking alien lizards. Google him up some time. Amazingly, he still manages to make more sense than Zizek.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-1127707873427267972005-09-26T05:11:00.000+01:002005-09-26T05:11:00.000+01:00Outstanding. Žižek, emperor, new clothes, etc. The...Outstanding. Žižek, emperor, new clothes, etc. The jester as intellectual huckster. At least Sokal was able to deliver the fatal blow; PoMo is writhing on the ground, still alive alas, but it's certainly not as culturally prevalent as it used to be. It's cacooning in ever more insular enclaves: non-tenured English department profs at smaller and less relevant colleges.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-1127678894300755632005-09-25T21:08:00.000+01:002005-09-25T21:08:00.000+01:00Okay, you're one up on me. Who's David Icke?Okay, you're one up on me. Who's David Icke?Akakyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00187471562516416268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-1127653903942334302005-09-25T14:11:00.000+01:002005-09-25T14:11:00.000+01:00"He must sound better in Slovenian"I bet he sounds..."He must sound better in Slovenian"<BR/><BR/>I bet he sounds like David Icke in Slovenian.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-1127592907213561462005-09-24T21:15:00.000+01:002005-09-24T21:15:00.000+01:00He must sound better in Slovenian than he does in ...He must sound better in Slovenian than he does in English; most Slovenes do.Akakyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00187471562516416268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-1127563002533661842005-09-24T12:56:00.000+01:002005-09-24T12:56:00.000+01:00In school upon recieving some reading assignments ...In school upon recieving some reading assignments we sometimes joked that Occam's Razor would not suffice and that we should be issued with Occam's Machete. <BR/><BR/>Now Zizek would probably require Occam's Chainsaw.lemuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17238658676004037072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-1127561295445690592005-09-24T12:28:00.000+01:002005-09-24T12:28:00.000+01:00Akaky, you'll be happy to hear that this is now a ...Akaky, you'll be happy to hear that this is now a spam-free zone.<BR/><BR/>J. Cassian, very well said. I'm afraid to say that I have been reading some of Zizek's large output in Leninolatry. Look at these gems:<BR/><BR/>“To reinvent Lenin's legacy today is to reinvent the politics of truth.”<BR/><BR/>What on earth could that mean?<BR/><BR/>“Today more than ever we should return to Lenin”<BR/><BR/>That'll be a lark!<BR/><BR/>(Slavoj Zizek, “A Plea for Leninist Intolerance”, Critical Inquiry, Winter 2002. Published online at the European Grauduate School.)Deogolwulfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02197539477668018797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-1127489899837718602005-09-23T16:38:00.000+01:002005-09-23T16:38:00.000+01:00The amount of junk cluttering up this comments sec...The amount of junk cluttering up this comments section may be a subtle tribute to Slavoj Zizek himself, the king of academic spam. Just like the average spammer, the Professor of Polysyllabics from the University of Ruritania emits an endless stream of verbal drivel in the desperate hope of hooking a handful of suckers into buying his shabby product - with astonishing success in Zizek's case. Anyone unlucky enough to read the London Review of Books recently will have encountered specimens of Zizekian Leninolatry in which the Slovene blathers about his mass-murdering, microencephalous "hero" at enormous length. These "essays" resemble nothing so much as the ramblings of an eight-year-old retard boasting about how "kewl" and "hard" his favourite He-Man or Skeletor action figure is. Still, I hear the main hospital in Ljubljana has named its new department of autoproctology in Zizek's honour.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-1127487846371311012005-09-23T16:04:00.000+01:002005-09-23T16:04:00.000+01:00damn it, Blogger slicedoff the part about wonderfu...damn it, Blogger sliced<BR/>off the part about wonderful<BR/>spam.Akakyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00187471562516416268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-1127487774918991672005-09-23T16:02:00.000+01:002005-09-23T16:02:00.000+01:00spamspamspamspamspamspamspamspamspamspamspamspamwo...spamspamspamspamspamspamspamspamspamspamspamspamwonderful spam!!!!!<BR/>did you know that the people of Hawaii eat more spam than anyone else in the United States?Akakyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00187471562516416268noreply@blogger.com