David Foster Wallace, Slavoj Žižek, and Scatological Ideology (via biblioklept)

I came across this clip of Slavoj Žižek discussing the different types of toilets that one finds across Europe the other day, and his riff immediately reminded me of David Foster Wallace‘s novella The Suffering Channel (or “The Suffering Channel,” if you prefer to think of it as a long short story). Here’s a version of the riff in English, which seems to approach a stand-up comedy routine at times…

Read More

via biblioklept

Related Articles

• Slavoj Žižek masterclasses, and Jacques Lacan lecture (via P e r ∙ C r u c e m ∙ a d ∙ L u c e m) (cengizerdem.wordpress.com)
• Screening Thought – The Media’s Philosophical Problem (readysteadybook.com)
• “The Pale King”: David Foster Wallace’s last battle (salon.com)
• Slavoj Žižek masterclasses, and Jacques Lacan lecture (cruciality.wordpress.com)

About these ads

Tags: David Foster Wallace, English, English language, Jacques Lacan, literature, Pale King, Politics, psychoanalysis, Short story, Slavoj Žižek, Social Sciences, Zizek