"Žižek, our most famous living cultural theorist, works on the sofa next to his wife, on his laptop, and uses a Russian pirate website from which to cut and paste quotes: Marx, Hegel, Lacan, Kierkegaard, Schelling, you name it – and his own.
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A few years ago, he was done for self-plagiarism by the New York Times: “It’s like calling masturbation self-rape,” he cries."
https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/kate-mossman-interview/2024/07/slavoj-zizek-the-court-jester-of-late-capitalism #zizek #piracy