Žižek’s Bogazici T-Shirt or The crises of the world!
Posted: February 17, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: intellectualism, Istanbul, politics, smalltalk 1 Comment »Here are two recent videos that I came across. One is a short program aired in Al-Jazeere Network where Zizek and Tariq Ramadan discussed the upheaval in Egypt. The other video is a trailer by a new documentary directed by Jason Barker.
There are obviously many discussion points here and I would like to dwell on them in length, but I am not going to do that. Instead, I want to highlight two patterns:
ONE: In both videos there are snippets suggesting the “end of the world” as we know of it and a vague Neo-Marxist resurrection of the human civilization.
TWO: Žižek was wearing, believe it or not, the same Bogazici University t-shirt in both videos. Ironically, an institution that was founded as an American Missionary school in 19th Century Istanbul.
Disclaimer: Bogazici happens to be my alma-mater.
Dude. Zizek always wears the same clothes. He doesn’t care about his appearance. He can be seen wearing the same plain shirt and vest for years. He just seems to like the shirt. It is ironic though, which is what he is all about sometimes.
Peace.