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About Me
- Jenny Davidson
- I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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- TWO chocolate ice creams
- "Is Brenda coming?"
- Mal educato
- Old chimps' home
- Hot dog
- Face-off
- The next screen
- Chatternag, chatterpie, haggister
- Animal-handsome
- "You're so uncouth"
- Neurasthenic lunging
- Tickets to writhe
- Head-spinning
- Emus
- The letter C
- Maneuverability problems
- Temza
- Clinches
- On parade
- "Food is good, but the herd is better"
- Buoyancy
- Number Four, Skin Lane
- Crack indexing
- Zizekiana
- "An athlete in bed"
- The other world
- Zeppelins over Glasgow
- Poultry contentment
- Indexed
- Extreme gardening
- "Long periods of procrastination followed by burst...
- Mellow fruitfulness
- A new type of doughnut
- "If you print that rot, I will sue you"
- "It's just the presidents"
- "You can do your job better after recreation"
- The green abyss
- Faits-divers
- Diplopedia
- "Daddy's dirtied up his room already"
- Pug Central
- = 1 Grisham/day
- "The wind, a hairbrush, a turkey carcass"
- Majorca, Zagreb, Larnaca, Tel Aviv
- Mothertongues
- The Pamela Widmerpool of Central Europe
- Border country
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Reads like a parody of a stereotype....
ReplyDeleteI've always been skeptical of Zizek and his cult. This just pushes me all the way to downright dislike. I've never seen anyone try so hard at self-mythologizing.
ReplyDeleteVacillating between "how horrendous" and "how hilarious," I go back into that academic anxiety over whether one is getting the joke, or thinking one is getting the joke when the joke is actually on the person thinking they are getting the joke, or maybe it's not a joke at all, or... Time for some People magazine, or at the very least Dickens!
ReplyDeleteAfter Simon Critchely's response to Zizek in his letter to Harper's of last spring, I'm as done with Zizek as I'll ever be. But I must say, this was morbidly entertaining!
ReplyDeleteI usually have a severe allergic reaction to most things Zizek, but I actually really liked this. I think you said it best, thinking of him as a kind of "aphoristic" philosopher makes the most sense, and allows one to appreciate, from time to time, at least, what he's trying to do.
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