Culture

This year, I've had the opportunity to attend lectures by Slavoj Zizek, Terry Eagleton and, conversely, Richard Dawkins (who very kindly signed my copy of The Selfish Gene). Unfortunately, for two of them I was pretty slaughtered (the Zizek lecture was St Patrick's Day), but that's not the point. The point is that we can now name another thing the Capital of Culture award has brought to Liverpool: world-renowned philosophers, social critics and... well, I can't bring myself to call Dawkins anything other than a biologist. Even more importantly, I got to listen to Zizek natter away excitedly about They Live with his incredible, life-changingly-awesome lisp.

Because you're jealous, here is the great man ranting about love and the universe. Imagine him going on about a Rowdy Roddy Piper film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJPhA9TGRls