
ZIZ001 A Lacanian Plea for Fundamentalism (18.09.2000)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Unwritten Rules of Hollywood
Roger Ebert enumerates hundreds of examples which are seen for me double. The so-called fruit card rule will be overturned and an angry peddler will run into the middle of the street to take care of it. Now let's turn to more unpleasant domain which is ourselves, academia. I claim that today's academia also fully participates in this dialectic of unwritten rules. In a false snobbery, you follow exactly all the written rules but nonetheless you are not in because again you don't follow the unwritten Rules.
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