Žižek’s Jokes: Did You Hear the One about Hegel and Negation? by Slavoj Žižek
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is an interesting concept for a book. Considering that Zizek is known for his “jokes”, it was bound to happen. The afterword by Momus is pretty apt. Zizek presents jokes like Badiou or Lacan would present Mathemes, to show us the shape of an idea.
A pretty easy read, this book is most likely to appeal to those of us for whom Zizek is too hard to read, and those of us for whom Zizek is someone we like to read. It would have been nice if Zizek would, some day, be able to pontificate about the place of jokes, even though its fairly apparent that these jokes without his theory are well in fact castrated, meaningless. Perhaps the object of castration, like a bunch of chopped penises lying uselessly about…
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