Žižek interview in The Guardian

HERE. For my tastes, he somehow never gets old. The odd thing about Žižek is that all of the critiques of him are almost always right, and yet they always somehow miss the point.

A few of my favorite moments:

“A lot of what I write is blah, blah, bullshit, a diversion from the 700-page book on Hegel I should be writing.”

“I trust that when you write this you will not be the usual shitty journalist who is true to the facts. I am expecting creative distortion of my biography.”

“It is boring, for instance, to criticise the US eternally. Why not China instead? It is China, after all, where they have banned fictional works considering alternative worlds, because they are afraid of their citizens’ imaginations. It is China that is colonising Africa.”

Frankly, I even thought the dirty joke was pretty good.

And as concerns my frequent refrain that everyone gets away with something, it’s pretty clear that what Žižek gets away with is being able to say whatever he wants whenever he wants. He’s not “teflon”; people do become angry at individual offensive utterances he makes. But then somehow it becomes irrelevant after a few minutes.