…the big Other is not some kind of substantial Master who secretly pulls the strings but a stumbling malfunctioning machinery.
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Michael Leong's most recent books are Words on Edge, Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry, and Sky-Quake: Tremor of Heaven, a co-translation, with Ignacio Infante, of Vicente Huidobro’s operatic long poem. He is Robert P. Hubbard Assistant Professor of Poetry at Kenyon College.
Exactly! that’s the big Other that runs my speculative fictional world of Subterranea. Love Zizek. Got a few of his fat tomes glaring at me from the top of the book shelf.
Great! Žižek has a knack of cutting to the chase in ways that are provocative and sometimes hilarious.