Thursday, March 11, 2010

Jameson's review of Zizek's "The Parallax View"

Fredric Jameson's review of Zizek's "The Parallax View" (of which Mayday has at least a couple of copies in stock) came out a little over three years ago. I was dithering a little as the review is not exactly fresh off the presses but since it gives such an excellent synopsis of Zizek's massive book I decided to post it. I generally don't have much time for Jameson as I consider him so much pretentious hot air but he has done a good job here.
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2 comments:

  1. Red FrogMarch 14, 2010 at 5:34 PM

    My little knowledge of Zizek has expanded. Other than the somewhat odd and pretentious "Zizekians" I have run into, now I know who our intellectual fathers are: Freud-Lacan-Zizek.

    And so, of course, we have to kill them.

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  2. AAMarch 15, 2010 at 12:37 PM

    Don't know if Zizek qualifies as intellectual father but he is the master of the counterintuitive insight, of Gestalt shifts in perception. I don't thnk I would find Lacan palatable.

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