Life is still pretty busy, not getting much time for Lemmy, but at least got some time to read now.
Still reading Streams of Silver by R. A. Salvatore. Book 2 of the series. Am more than halfway through now, if nothing comes up, should be able to finish it this week.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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Going back to finish how to read lacan by zizek. Short book, should complete it in one or two seatings.
Is it good? I am hearing very conflicting information about Zizek as a whole.
Absolutely. Zizek is a great writer who revolutionised philosophical writing by making it very approachable. You can go in with little to no knowledge of Lacan or psychoanalysis and understand a lot.
He writes using jokes and movies etc as reference points. A brilliant way to write something engaging instead of theory heavy as much of philosophy is.
Infact I think its the most readable philosophy outside of pure fiction like a lot of what Camus wrote.
He’s also done some proper philosophical work connecting lacan to zizek (not part of this book) which even lacan himself could not see (and its not unreasonable in the slightest).
He also credits other for ideas that are really his in a very generous way.
His reputation is muddled in the mainstream bc people think he’s somehow comparable to JP but Peterson is a genuine idiot who I can’t believe is a tenured professor.
I would recommend reading this book. Or zizek in general. He has a substack too.