Alex Zane hearts Judith Chalmers
Here’s a thing, quite a big thing, that my girlfriend spotted while we were watching Rude Tube. So that’s worrying on many many levels. I like how this could qualify for Rude Tube itself, a lovely circularity there. Though I don’t love it in the same way he loves Judith Chalmers.
Book Review: Slavoj Zizek’s “In Defence of Lost Causes”
If you had to put money on which academic would be the first to play Wembley Arena live, you’d have to go for Slavoj Zizek. Once dubbed the “Elvis of Cultural Theory”, Zizek is the prolific author of some 40 books ranging in subject from Hitchcock to Christianity, from the Iraq war to Lacanian psychoanalysis, books that are so full of erudition and eclectic thought that to write just one of them would have killed an ordinary man. (more…)
