Zizek and the Media

Preface: The Dog’s Bollocks . . . at the Media Dinner Party viii

Acknowledgements xiii

Introduction: ‘The Marx Brother’, ‘The Elvis of Cultural Theory’, and Other Media Cliches 1

1 The Mediated Imp of the Perverse 6

2 ?i?ek’s Tickling Shtick 34

3 Big (Br)Other: Psychoanalysing the Media 63

4 Understanding Media: The Sublime Objectification of Ideology 91

5 The Media’s Violence 120

6 The Joker’s Little Shop of Ideological Horrors 149

Conclusion: Don’t Just Do It: Negative Dialectics in the Age of Nike 176

Notes 183

Bibliography 189

Index 202