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Experience the Elvis of cultural theory

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He may be a bit dotty but Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher taken very seriously, especially in America.

He's been called the Elvis of cultural theory and Astra Taylor's film attempts to show why.

A faintly impenetrable experience for this viewer, but the sight of Zizek, sweating his way through lectures and talking so fast that you can't tell what is nonsense and what is wisdom, is quite an experience.

Zizek!

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