Table of Contents
Preface: Stinging Nettles xi
The Name, Z. Glory
Little Hong Kong in a Sea of Titoism
The Cleaning Lady
Nomen Est Omen
The Itch
The Village Café
Nietzsche's Witness
The Truth of Pathology
Under the Thumb of Capitalist Ideology
Letters to Lacan
Malicious Thoughts
Warring for the Republic
Resistance
Introduction: The Postmodernity of Franciscan Haecceity 1
Fichte is Right
Goffman's Stage
Hollander's Tenured Radicals
That Great Underprivileged Proletarian University Known as Princeton
The New American Communist Party
Fight Club Occupy
Russell Brand Smokes Lacan
Rejecting Hegel
Pursuing it Like the Owl of Minerva into a Propane Flame
The Franciscan Person
Answering Roberto Esposito
Tito's Crimes
The Fox and the Monkey
Zizek's Monstrous Politics 13
Kierkegaard and the Single Individual
Zizek's Works of Despair
The Inhuman Crowd
Repetition
Hegel's Oak Trees
The Call for Terror
The Witness
Linksfaschismus
Necropolitics
A Return to Lenin
Kierkegaard's Housing Project
Keyser Soze and the X-Men
Wolverine as Abraham
Masquerade
The Stupid Multitude
2 The Slime of Ideology 29
How to Use Lacan
A Return to Gulag Politics
No Regard for the Uniqueness of Persons
The Arithmetic, of Communism
Lenin, Stalin, and Mao's Symptom
Selling Testicles as if They Were Kidneys
Unamuno's Priest
De Sade Drinks Synthohol
The Traumatic Kernel of Ideology
Alien Enlightenment
The Elephant and the Master's Phallus
Lacan's Obscure Message
The Buddha and Ascesis
Due South
Hysterical Babble
A Masturbatory Revolution
A Lacanian Master in a State-Funded Apartment
Wise Peasants
The Cannibalism of the Master
Eating Cats
The Sith Lord
Lacan's Clinical Reality
Frozen TV Dinners
Zizek as Borat
3 The Para-Exlax View 38
Revolutionary Terror
Exorcizing Derrida's Ghost
A Tasteless Hegelianism
The objet petit a and the Herd of Pigs
"A barren zone is given a fantasmatic status." The Intolerable Exploitation of Communism
Zizek Surfs for Porn
Reading Lacan While Ljubljana Burns
Duchamp's Ready-Mades
The Leninist-Lacanian Wheel
Stalin's Works of Love
On Vacation in North Korea
The Dominance of the Imaginary
4 Ninja Castration 43
Tragedy and Farce
Death Pit Gulags
The Flying Rich in Sao Paulo
Fresh-Baked Gulag Bread
A Stealthy Castration
Mao's Great Leap Backward
Zizek's Fantasy Taxi Driver Pleasures
Zizek as a Solution to Oppression
Lacanian Proletariats with Tenure
Kung Fu Panda and the Noodle Job
Molotov Cocktails and the Capitalistic Police
Back to the Communist Homestead
Lenin's Refrigerated Corpse
Golf and Toilet Paper Executives
Birthday Songs to the Great Leader
5 Mirages in the Desert of the Real 48
A Philosophical Understanding of 9/11
Marx, Lenin, and Lacan as Ideological Saviors
Red Ink Tokes
American Marxists
Terror and Numbness
Fight Club
Heidegger's Stupidity
Sex and the City
St. Francis and the Leper
Schelling and Bin Laden
My Great-Grandmother Confronts the Sword of Islam
Little Bear
Christ and the Sword
Putin's Judo
The Walking Dead and Terminus
Badiou in the Slaughterhouse
6 Ethics without Paradox 54
Cornel West and the Ills of American Society
Socrates Plays the Blues
Sedate with Comforting Illusions
The Grandfathers of Mai 68
Ever Hear of Canada? The Nihilism of Mere Belief The Universal Health-Care of The Doctors
The Bad Advice of Zizek's Followers
Alec Baldwin's Enjoyment
Lacanian Fucking
Stalin's Radical Emancipatory Attempt
Parallax Shit
Purges and Panic
Un-Free and Tenured in the USA
Cornelius Castoriadis in the Labyrinth
"A contemporary revival of the most-antiquated sophistry."
Althusser's Lament
7 The Bread of Lost Causes 62
The Weak Thought of Postmodernism?
Chesterton and the Single Individual
Paper Bag Revolutionary
The Communism of Procruste's Bed
Songs from the Second Floor
Rejecting Stalinism out of Justice
Disavowal? Jennifer Anniston's Dirty Dishes
Cracking Lacanian Nuts
Chinese Enthusiasm
Robespierre's Love
The Thing Itself
Keiser Soeze
Self-Flagellators Unite
Mer-leau-Ponty and the Bright Communist Future
Jolly-Jumping in front of Uncle Joe
Badiou's Egalitarian Terror
The Man of Steel
Hegel's Feedback Loop
8 For They Know What They Did 72
The Drive toward Democracy
Graffiti at the Skate-Park
Che's Tenderness
Gandhi's Violence
China's Protection of Tibet
The New Hedonism of Buddhism
A Poster Boy for the Benefits of Global Capital
The Not So Shining Path
Chiesa's New Symbolic
Brecht's Bad Poetry
The Black Book of Communism
Be All You Can Be
9 Tickling the Subject: The Body without Anus 78
The Foundation of Zizek's Theory
Descartes and CSI New York
Kinder Egg Theorists
Deleuze and Philosophical Buggery
Captain Ahab Penetrates His Concept
The Ambassadors
Hegelian Bones
West Germany and the Gastarbeiter
Spinning in the Same Orbit
A Cannibalistic Monologue
Apocalypse Now and Finding Nemo
10 A to Zizek: (Discarded Ab-stracts From a Foreign Alphabet) 83
A Vaudeville Screenplay
Hegel and Dora the Explorer
Hitchcock Again
Lacan the Holy Father
Kierkegaard and the Post-Script
Pauline Renewals
MacDonald's Theory
Golf Stock Options
Ceding Desire
The Louvre Pyramid
Pirates of the Caribbean
Repeat Lenin
Mad Max
Bull-Fights
A Deconstructive Catholic Critique
TV Evangelists
Roll Back That Bus
Jesus and Vinegar Zero
Jack Bauer and 24
Tito as objet-à
Duping Theory
Turning the Dialectical Wheel
Seinfeld
Babble-On
Denkverbot
One Voice on the Line
Silkworms
Bertrand Russell and Lenin
Job and North Korea
Kierkegaardian Atonement
A New Proletariat Prayer: Hail Lenin
Kierkegaard's 1846 Answer to Zizek
Davy Jones Locker
Field Work at Wal-Mart
Lenin's Mother.
11 Franciscan Persons and Slum Colonies 109
Slums of Excess
Slum Dwellers of the World Unite
The Great Leader's Caviar
No Thanks to Egalitarian Terror
Watching Down-ton Abbey
Jacques Rancière's Disruptions
Paying for the Sins of Bankers and CEO's
The Disqualified Consumer
Beyond the Tweeting Thumb
Rotten Apple
Fight Club
No to Millbank's Pure and Absolute Social Consensus
Who Is Shep? Pollock's Drips
Occupy
The Event of Film
Incarnation and Sin
I Tasted Communist Alcohol
Franciscan Persons.
Conclusion: Excremental Obfuscation 119
Harry Frankfurt and the Field of Bullshit
Maggie Simpsons Soother
A Modest Technical Project
Slavic Birth Control
A Fine and Famous Clown
The Failed Legacy of German Idealism
Monty Pythons Knight
Fantastic Mr. Fox.
The "Flow" of Refugees
Crimes of Hospitality
Gravediggers
Derrida's Franciscan Haecceity
Wolves
The Panama Papers
Jesus and Haecceity
Hegel on Napoleon's Horse.
Bibliography 127
