A few days ago Chris sent me a video of the Slovenian sociologist/philosopher Slavoj Žižek in which he explains the value of garbage. The video fragment is part of the documentary Examined Life in which a variety of philosophers take to the streets.

After doing some research on Mr. Žižek I stumbled across a recent episode of the Dutch documentary program ‘Tegenlicht’ in Žižek is asked to comment on topicalities like the Middle Eastern conflict, the financial crisis and religious fanaticism. Žižek, being a true Marxist poses the thought that capitalism is the root of all this evil.

I also came across the documentary ‘žižek!‘ in which a video crew follows Mr. Žižek for a period of time and documents the personal side of his career as a cultural critic and anti-capitalist think tank.

Really good stuff. I enjoyed every minute of it. Have a look at the video fragment that got me hooked if you like:

For the subject ‘Mediatheorie’ (Media and cultural theory) I had to write a paper about a part of the subject material.
I talked with the lecturer, drs. Steven Malliet, about the possibility to write ‘exergaming’, of which he approved.

This is the resulting paper.

• An extract of the Media and cultural theory course material I made