…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 Dear Vase Already Shattered Against the Fragile Floor (Black Square Editions, 2025) and Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2020). 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.