Žižek escaping student Q&A via fake dean summons

As told 3

“the friend comes and says you are urgently needed by the dean up there and then i can hypocritically say to students i would love to talk all the night with you”
1:52:04 UNHOLY ALLIANCES TODAY2023-03-17 · 2:07:14

“university is a nice place without students”
3:26 We’re Only Human2009-10-20 · 1:20:27

“since they didn't know each other, I filled it myself with invented names so I went to a movie theater”
~2:32 No Sex please, We are Post-Human2009-01-20 · 1:20:27

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

permitted-but-prohibited ambiguity ×1 meta-rules ×1 obscene underside ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Hilary Neroni2 Samuel Maoz2 Ari Folman2 Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu2 Saint Theresa of Avila Church, New Orleans1 Karl-Heinz Delvon1 Mariana Mazzucato1 Leonardo Padura Fuentes2

alongside works

Risk Society2 Ephesians (Paul)2 Waltz with Bashir2 Tsahal2 Topaz2 Stage Fright2 Lebanon2 Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones)2

Told together with

50% Golda Meir: I believe in Jewish people 2 shared talks 50% Charity ad for the price of a cappuccino 2 shared talks 50% learning to enjoy alcohol and cigarettes 2 shared talks 40% Fight Club: Ed Norton beats himself before his boss 2 shared talks 33% Chinese scientists: Three Gorges Dam caused earthquake 2 shared talks 33% Toms Shoes 1-for-1 formula 2 shared talks 33% Sound of Music censored in communist Yugoslavia 2 shared talks 18% Kung Fu Panda 2 shared talks 14% Da Vinci Code / Da Vinci, sex displaced onto Jesus 2 shared talks 14% Heydrich playing Beethoven string quartets 2 shared talks 11% Daisetz Suzuki's Knife 2 shared talks 10% Santa Claus Belief 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

1:52:04 UNHOLY ALLIANCES TODAY2023-03-17 · 2:07:14

Žižek confesses that at American universities he asks a friend to fetch him with a fake urgent summons from the dean, allowing him to escape student questions while hypocritically claiming he'd love to stay., illustrating Žižek's self-irony,the gap between public persona and private desire

3:26 We’re Only Human2009-10-20 · 1:20:27

At NYU, Žižek filled his office-hour signup sheet with invented names so no students would come and he could go to the movies, illustrating that university is 'a nice place without students.', illustrating solicited transgression,unwritten rules of social distinction

~2:32 No Sex please, We are Post-Human2009-01-20 · 1:20:27

Žižek filled his NYU office-hour sign-up sheets with invented names so students who didn't know each other wouldn't realize the slots were taken, allowing him to go to the cinema, he confirms the story is true despite the introducer calling it false., illustrating two-level rules,obscene underside