Highly recommended viewing: Charlie Rose's recent interview of Slavoj Zizek. The two points of the interview I liked the most:
1) When Zizek says the role of the philosopher is to ask the right questions.
2) Zizek's bemusement at Rose's characterization of the Arab Spring as non-ideological. This was precisely the ideological move that Zizek unmasked in his classic 1988 book The Sublime Object of Ideology (still my favorite Zizek).
I haven't had a chance to watch this interview yet (though I will), but in my opinion just about any Charlie Rose interview that's "highly recommended viewing" necessarily involves the interviewee getting bemused (or worse) at Charlie Rose.
ReplyDeleteI saw this interview. It was great. Even Charlie Rose couldn't ruin it, Ben! But seriously, I was intrigued by the things Zizek had to say about Stalin. - TL
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