Ideology is Dead, Long Live Ideology
I guess it happens from what people tell me, but I've personally never seen Powell's close down the Pearl room for a reading before. Slavoj Zizek—philosopher and cultural icon—read September 9th to an audience eight deep into the aisles.
I came half an hour early and was lucky to get a spot on which to lean on the front of a bookshelf.
He was here to promote his new book Violence, but as he said he would early on, he talked about far more than the book, bringing in chicken jokes, dinner party conversations, late-Platonic notions of discourse and the inadequacies of hard-core porn to further his cultural critique of our particular historical moment.
