Hilarious! 
What follows is the epic saga of a random instant message that came to me
from a stranger this weekend, asking whether I wanted to be paid to write
a college paper for her. Bitch didn’t know she was fucking with a comedy
writer….
"Zizek!" is a feature length documentary that travels the world
exploring the eccentric personality and esoteric work of the most important
cultural theorist working today, the incomparable Slovenian philosopher Slavoj
Zizek.The author of dozens of books on subjects from Hitchcock to September 11th,
from Lenin to David Lynch, Zizek’s work has been translated into
more than twenty languages. Innumerable reviews and analyses of his work
have been written, and glowing profiles printed in Le Monde Diplomatique
and the New Yorker magazine. In major cities around the world, lecture
halls overflow with those anxious to catch a glimpse of the frenetic and
iconoclastic style that has made Zizek so famous.
Via: Mymarkup.net
I have found a really great resource on discourse analysis! Stef
Slembrouck from Ghent University presents
and compares the major schools within discourse analysis in this neatly
compiled overview.One thing that I’m starting to realize is that the conversation
analysis approach might be too narrow for me, since there seems to be
too little focus on social and cultural context but instead only the context
of the text itself is seen as crucial. From this perspective, the interactional
sociolinguistic approach seems more suitable, especially if one brings
in the work of Erwing Goffman under
this umbrella. Nevertheless, I quite like some of the ideas of conversation
analysis, as for instance the notion of sequential implicativeness – the
idea that “each move in a conversation is essentially a reponse to
the preceding talk and an anticipation of the kind of talk which is to follow.
In formulating their present turn, speakers show their understanding of the
previous turn and reveal their expectations about the next turn to come.” (From
the Conversation Analysis section in
Slembrouck’s resource.) I need to figure out if these different approaches
are combinable, and especially so from a multimodal perspective.
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