Žižek and So On
anecdote · personal/autobiographical ·
retold in 7 talks
Žižek jokes about the title of his guest's show, 'Žižek and So On,' interpreting 'so on' speculatively: he is merely a byproduct of the 'so on,' implying the host is the primary subject.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 6
“Žižek and So On. That's wonderful that's what i like not Žižek and Hegel and Žižek and that but and so on and because i think that we have to read this in a speculative way it's not and blah blah the key element is that so on i'm just a byproduct of that so on.”
“when you have a water toilet which doesn't suck well. so no matter how times you flush it, the shit comes back, no?”
“since I compulsively play a certain role, almost a clown, dirty jokes and so on, I noticed that I do this not as a secret joke when authority does not watch you, but only for the authority”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
inherent transgression
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the big Other
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postmodern permissive father
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Its cast and sources
populated by
Stathis Kouvélakis1Kyle MacLachlan1Jean-Paul Badiou / Badiou reading of Genet1A.O. Scott1Rose McGowan1Mike Crumplar1M.L. Clark1Kirsten E Stewart1
alongside works
Every retelling 6
Žižek jokes about the title of his guest's show, 'Žižek and So On,' interpreting 'so on' speculatively: he is merely a byproduct of the 'so on,' implying the host is the primary subject., illustrating subjectivity,ideology
Closing the centenary lecture series, Žižek jokes that returning to address the same audience after a year is like a toilet that doesn't suck well, no matter how many times you flush, the shit comes back. Self-deprecating joke about his own annoying recurrence., illustrating self-deprecating humour,vulgarity as conclusion
Žižek says that unlike typical transgressive behaviour done privately when authority is absent, he performs his dirty jokes only publicly for the Big Other, and feels relieved in private to be a 'decent person', demonstrating the paradox of inherent transgression., illustrating inherent transgression,Big Other
Žižek confesses his father was 'permissive,' asking if he had a girl and offering to show him how to do it. Žižek found this obscene and oppressive, ruining his life, illustrating that too much permissivity destroys the necessary distance of authority., illustrating over-regulated permissivity
Trying to be honest with a woman he was flirting with, Žižek disclosed embarrassing psychological details; she replied 'Did you really have to tell me that? Couldn't you leave me some illusions?', illustrating that lying is intrinsic to social and sexual life., illustrating consent discourse,lying and seduction,truth versus illusion in sexuality
Žižek cursed his young son in Serbian ('let the dog fuck your mother') and the child immediately replied 'that already happened, that's how I came to life,' producing what Žižek calls 'innocent evil', pure wit without malice., illustrating innocent evil,children's uncanny wit