Sorry that there have been so few entries on here recently. I am off to Sweden for six weeks in a week’s time, and falling behind with work, In particular, I had to do an interview\/profile of Nick Humphrey over the weekend, which was interesting and fun, and am currently preparing an interview with Slavoj Zizek on Friday, which is different.<\/p>\n\n
This involves reading, at the very least, his latest book, and the earlier Conversations with Zizek,<\/em> from which I can report that by page 77 I have stopped even asking whether what I read is bullshit; I have stopped reading with an eye for answers or reasons or arguments to make. No, I have passed into a state where mere bullshit becomes the negation of bullshit, where pseudery is ultimately the anti-pseud; a state to which the only analogy is the Toronto Blessing. Again and again I find warm billows of laughter shake me in my chair as I read. Do they make sense? Are they an adequate<\/em> response? What very tediously empirical questions.<\/p>\n\n I hope to scan in later some of the passages that have reduced — which is to say enlarged — me to this state.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sorry that there have been so few entries on here recently. I am off to Sweden for six weeks in a week’s time, and falling behind with work, In particular, I had to do an interview\/profile of Nick Humphrey over … Continue reading