probably should've stopped short instead of wasting so much time on this (reading Zizek half-awake on the subway is not a good place to be), but at least the last 3 pages are radically divergent from the rest in that there's some irrational rhetoric and political analysis. he also disses Deleuze implicitly, which intrigued me.but really, I liked Zizek for his random references and because the Lacanian lexicon is very appealing, but all the Hegel and Kant comes across as near-gibberish, and I can't for the life of me figure out why reconciling them with Lacan is at all important except to philosophy students. The fact that these are lectures reformatted into a book (much as everything he writes is essays recombined) makes it more pedantic than usual as well. Sublime Object of Ideology is a much, much better work, as is Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism, both of which have interesting things to say about politics, while this only has pseudo-math and paradoxes. ( )