Why Zizek Is So Annoying
Slavoj Žižek occasionally gets a mention here at Ubiwar and was also the subject of my inaugural post at CTlab. Larval Subjects seems to have nailed why he’s such an infuriating thinker to get to grips with:
As an ironist, just when you think you’ve pinned down his position, he reverses everything and articulates yet another position contradicting the first. Hence the sense that he never gets anywhere. The paradox is that the more Žižek tries to disavow and undermine this position of being the subject-supposed-to-know, the more he tends to provoke transference in his audience, convincing them that he must contain some secret (just as Socrates’ interlocutors invariably thought that he knew and was just withholding the answer).
That doesn’t make me feel so bad.
