Slavoj Žižek’s wives
February 10, 2007 at 10:41 am | In Entertainment, Gender |Tags: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Wedding
And there goes another post triggered by my recent quest to explore the public persona of Slavoj Žižek. I’ll stay comfortably on the surface of things, like a tabloid, to leave the rest to your own imagination. I can’t come up with a coherent story about Žižek’s wives, I couldn’t even find out whether he was married two or three times. What difference would it make anyway? According to Wikipedia, he married the second time in 2004, according to Rebecca Mead in The New Yorker, he was already divorced twice in 2003.
The top right image shows his first or second wife Renata Salecl, Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law Institute of Criminology, Centennial Professor at the department of law at the London School of Economics and a visiting scholar to various institutions (Duke University, Berliner Wissenschaftskolleg, New School for Social Research, to name a few). She has written and co-edited a number of publications, alone and with Žižek, and she is very attractive.
In 2004, Žižek, the psycoanalytic philosopher, married a woman by the name of Analia Hounie (sorry, couldn’t keep the emphasis to myself), who is also very attractive, yet in a different way [picture in the middle, source]. She is a (then) 26-year old model from Argentina, and according to some “the daughter of a major Lacanian thinker and a very serious scholar herself” [I-Cite].
Ruflan via K-Punk writes about her as “Zizek’s new adquisition: the intellectual model”:
Someone was wondering if she’s a genius or something like that. Well, she is. And she is not.
She is: she’s a literature student and she married Zizek. (eeek) anyway, when the old man dies he’ll leave her a really important book collection.
She is not: i’m actually a literature student and the thing is i got to be sitting with her in the same class room several times. Legally blonde.
See how a story is beginning to form in your head? No further comment from my side… I do, however, not want to withhold the wedding photograph from you, also courtesy I-Cite, with which she raised the question:
“Is tabloid coverage good for materialist, psychoanalytic, philosophy?”
Read the comments on I-Cite’s blog, they are entertaining.
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lustig. was findest du denn an seinem privatleben so packend?
Comment by jomalm — February 10, 2007 #
nicht sein privatleben - die public persona, die sich zusammensetzt aus schnipseln über den theoretiker und den ehemann. finde es spannend, was sich da für teile zusammensetzen - der cutting edge philosoph und psychoanaltische denker und zugleich der alte sack, der ein model pimpert… wenn man sich die story so zusammen setzen will, für den effekt…
Comment by anaj — February 10, 2007 #
How about this for public persona: a few years back Zizek wrote the intro and picture captions for that year’s Abercrombie and Fitch catalogue.
Comment by cerebraljetsam — February 10, 2007 #
Yes, I heard of that (or simply read it in Wikipedia, I think?) - I quite like that, although I doubt that this was a regular copy writing job. One should find out whether he was featured as guest writer in the catalogue or not. If he was, I wouldn’t like the idea as much as I would if he wasn’t.
Comment by anaj — February 10, 2007 #
The scary thing was that he seemed to do it on voluntary basis. His justification, actually even more shocking (since true), was that there was no discernable difference between writing this crap for A&F and writing for US academia and for lecture tours. He said he saw no difference between the money he made from both. In times of an increasing corporatization of universities that is actually a very true (albeit pragmatic) statement.
Comment by cerebraljetsam — February 10, 2007 #
I think that he’s probably right with his comment, at least for the aspect that both profession might demand from you to sell out, the good thing about copy writing being that at least it is honest… and I just wanted to add “but it’s problematic if Abercrombie & Fitch use him as a marketing argumemnt”… howeber, if you look at the annoying example of the European Graduate School, then we see exactly this thing happening… apparently the EGS students witnessed Zizek and his Argentinian wive on a skiing tour (no idea how that was possible in the summer, but that’s what someone write on i-Cite’s blog)
Comment by anaj — February 11, 2007 #