About Me
- Jenny Davidson
- My last novel was THE EXPLOSIONIST (HarperTeen), the story of a 15-year-old girl growing up in an alternate version of 1930s Edinburgh, one where the legacy of Napoleon's victory a century earlier at Waterloo is a standoff between a totalitarian Federation of European States and a group of independent northern countries called the New Hanseatic League. The sequel, INVISIBLE THINGS, will be published in Fall 2010. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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- Obsessive Ciceronians
- Toy story
- Flowy!
- "I am a teenage elf"
- Wasn't Plannin' on Leavin'
- No bearing on reality
- The rightness is all
- Error correction
- Penguin love
- "Aesthetic promptings and hesitations"
- "Motiveless civility"
- The Aphrodite affair
- PLACE NAMES
- The Viennese literary coffeehouse
- The Order of the Elephant
- Vile jelly
- Unhinged
- Stony places
- Waterloo
- The discovery of Uqbar
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- Significant objects redux
- Seizure-detecting snakes
- "Up to three idiosyncratic majuscules"
- Still or sparkling?
- "What's the forecast?"
- Fustian!
- Like minds
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- 4 more Mondays
- The sequel
- Effet bienfaisant d'une phrase ~ Beneficent effect...
- Recap: "I like, I don't like"
- "Cockamamies"
- The final assignment
- Typographic errors
- 5mph
- Slim memorials
- "Drives superb"
- Brother/Sister
- "I used to have a map"
- Brain food
- "Put to bed in felts"
- On curiosity
- "The same goes for the bed"
- Two by Perec
- "He that writes of himself, not easily tir'd"
- "Dance capsules"
- "The habits and the aura of a student"
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5 comments:
Reads like a parody of a stereotype....
I'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.
Vacillating 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!
After 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!
I 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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