Slavoj Žižek in Liverpool, Andy Miah, 2008.
Few public intellectuals are as 'rockstar' as Slavoj Zizek. Due to the extensive diversity of his topics, Zizek can only be described loosely as an interdisciplinary philosopher, cultural critic, and social theorist who happens to be rooted in Lacanian psychoanalysis and the application of a Marxist view of political economy.
As such, he is often noted for habitually employing academic modes of thought to examine phenomena ranging from Hitchcock films, to current events, and toilets. In this way he situates himself as a relative academic outsider who is probably best known for his humorous lecturing stand-up, eccentric personality, and his ability to reap value from the intellectually unconventional.
While his unique status and level of popularity has afforded him a large amount of academic freedom and flexibility with is publisher, his detractors often cite his notoriety and entertainment value as a means to diminish his credibility and also as a relatively insubstantial side-note to question the real intellectual value of his work (which I estimate is a fairly obvious method that could be used to attack more or less anybody affiliated with the field of philosophy).
Slavoj Zizek: #1 On the Ideology of Toilets
Slavoj Zizek: #2 I Want a Third Pill
Slavoj Zizek: #3 Cinema Reproducing the Cinematic Experience
Slavoj Zizek: #4 Stalin, Fascism, and Today's Left
Slavoj Zizek: #5 Zizek at Powell's Books
Slavoj Zizek: #6 Rumsfedlian Knowns #7 Canned Laughter
Slavoj Zizek: #8 Apology to Judith Butler
Slavoj Zizek: #9 Objects Returning the Gaze #10 Nitebeat
Slavoj Zizek: #11 A Final Self-Analysis
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