Slavoj Žižek Remixed: “I consider this a total misreading of my position”

Abstract

This essay is a cut-up / remix / montage of the work of Slavoj Žižek. It is a recombination of materials from his critical publications, including The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989), For They Know Not What They Do (1991), The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For? (2000), Welcome to the Desert of the Real (2002), The Parallax View (2006), In Defense of Lost Causes (2008), First As Tragedy, Then As Farce (2009), Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism (2014), and Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism (2015). The section headers are all direct quotations from Žižek’s texts, as are the individual sentences in the essay’s first section. All other sentences are splicings-together of syntactic fragments from his texts. This essay is part of A Recombinant Theory Project. Micro-reports from this project are regularly published on Twitter: @remixtheory.