Zizek in Der Spiegel

The Verso blog mentioned this interview with/feature on Zizek, from Der Spiegel. Much of it will be familiar to anyone who’s been following the recent flurry of media reporting on Zizek, but there are some interesting moments. This is a quote from Zizek

Take my friend Peter… Sloterdijk. I like him a lot, but he’ll obviously have to be sent to the gulag. He’ll be in a slightly better position there. Perhaps he could work as a cook.

The writer also has some nice turns-of-phrase. I particularly liked the descriptions of Badiou:

Badiou is an affable, well-dressed elderly gentleman. He doesn’t look like an enemy of the state, but more like an easy-going East German pensioner.

and then later:

Negri, furrowing his leathery brow, reacts testily. Zizek, he says, has lost the revolutionary subject, but without a revolutionary subject there can be no resistance. Badiou observes the argument with the face of an old turtle, as if he were wondering which of the two he would like to send to a labor camp first.


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