Via wood s lot.

Zizek is known for his frequent use of film and pop culture, his huge range of philosophical and literary references, and his obscene jokes - all packaged in overarching metaphors involving something like a rollercoaster (or in one particularly bizarre case, a mulcher). The Parallax View includes all of these things: extended riffs on the Matrix trilogy, a section on Henry James' prose style, a Hegelian approach to sexual positions, a highly questionable analysis of anti-Semitism and a wide array of other digressions, often brilliant, sometimes plodding, with varying degrees of relevance to the topic at hand. More significantly, however, The Parallax View consolidates Zizek's work as a whole and decisively moves it forward.

Via wood s lot, also pointing to...

• The most recent issue of Janus Head, where, if you scroll down a bit, you'll find Ana Iribas's interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky, available as a PDF file.

• The photography of Misha Gordin.

• And of course, a wealth of material on the late Jane Jacobs, to which I'll add Witold Rybczynski's reflections in Slate.

Posted by dwhudson at April 27, 2006 11:32 AM