Zizek and the MediaISBN: 978-0-7456-4368-7
Paperback
192 pages
December 2010, Polity
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Media, Culture & Society
"Ask not for whom theory waits, motionless - it waits for all of us in Paul Taylor's excellent Zizek and the Media."
Media Education Research Journal
"Taylor does a superb job of showing how electrifying and
profound the media current that flows through Zizek's work really
is."
Joan Copjec, University at Buffalo
"Paul Taylor's Zizek and the Media provides a thorough
introduction to the paradoxes and subtleties of Slavoj Zizek's
thought, and at the same time it articulates a compelling theory of
how the contemporary media functions in unforeseen ways. Taylor's
originality derives from his vigilant attention to forms. He is the
first to explain fully how the idiosyncratic form in which Zizek
presents his philosophy emerges out of its content. And in the
process, he grasps what makes Zizek's such a penetrating critique
of our media universe. Taylor's book goes beyond being a book about
Zizek and becomes one that enacts Zizek's mode of thinking on its
readers."
Todd McGowan, University of Vermont
"All jokes aside, this is a seriously serious book. Zizek is one
of the most media-savvy of all contemporary philosophers, and
medium in the form of the concrete universal is one of his most
important concepts. Paul Taylor does a terrific job putting
together these two sides of Zizek to produce a provocative parallax
view."
Rex Butler, University of Queensland