The Engine

Hi Simon, I've got a remarkable dvd of Slavoj Zizek and one about Derrida too. Zizek is the less lionised figure and comes across as remarkably accessible human being. Often he appears in bed talking to camera and he's making a tent with his hand as he vigorously masturbates. He's telling us he's alive, both in dialectical terms and in terms of pouring spumes of semen into the atmosphere. By contrast Derrida is rarely so candid. Often he's seen cooking a scrambled egg that never constitutes anything but its own, mere derision. At other times he's treated like a god, a twentieth-century man god who happens to be in a film too. The film is never so innovative as it fancies itself to be, but the Zizek film is the more recommended: from lacan dot com http://www.lacan.com http://www.lacan.com/lacan1.htm Slavoj Zizek Beckett with Lacan - part 1 http://www.lacan.com/article/?page_id=78 The achievement of Joyce simultaneously signals his limit, the limi