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<strong>Flamme</strong> <strong>Forlag</strong><br />
Audun Mortensen:<br />
The Collected Jokes of Slavoj Žižek<br />
Som tredje bok i <strong>Flamme</strong> <strong>Forlag</strong>s serie for konseptuell<br />
litteratur, FABRIKK, utkommer Audun Mortensens The<br />
Collected Jokes of Slavoj Žižek. Boka inneholder samtlige<br />
vitser sitert/parafrasert i den slovenske filosofen Slavoj<br />
Žižeks engelskspråklige utgivelser mellom 1989 og 2010.<br />
Audun Mortensen (f. 1985) debuterte med Alle forteller<br />
meg hvor bra jeg er i tilfelle jeg blir det i 2009. Siden har<br />
han utgitt romanen Roman (2010) og diktsamlingen Aaliyah<br />
(2011).<br />
Nick Currie (f. 1960) er mest kjent under artistnavnet<br />
Momus. Han er musiker, forfatter, blogger og tidligere<br />
journalist i Wired.<br />
«(In this book) we see the charming playfulness of<br />
the great masters of philosophy, and perhaps begin<br />
to recognise philosophy itself, at its highest, lightest<br />
level, as something akin to laughter and joking; ‘the<br />
smile of the gods’ … It is as if the joke has become<br />
for Žižek what algebra is for his old ally and rival<br />
Badiou: the most concise way Žižek knows to sum up<br />
a universal situational shape.»<br />
<strong>–</strong> fra Nick Curries etterord<br />
Vårliste <strong>2012</strong><br />
Med etterord av Nick Currie<br />
Prosa, 160 sider<br />
Utkommer ultimo februar. Kr. 150,<strong>–</strong><br />
«It brings to mind a well-known Soviet joke about<br />
Lenin. Under socialism, Lenin’s advice to young<br />
people, his answer to what they should do, was<br />
‘Learn, learn, and learn.’ This was evoked at all times<br />
and displayed on all school walls. The joke goes:<br />
Marx, Engels, and Lenin are asked wether they would<br />
prefer to have a wife or a mistress. As expected,<br />
Marx, rather conservative in private matters, answers,<br />
‘A wife!’ while Engels, more of a bon vivant, opts for<br />
a mistress. To everyone’s surprise, Lenin says, ‘I’d<br />
like to have both!’ Why? Is there a hidden stripe of<br />
decadent jouisseur behind his austere revolutionary<br />
image? No <strong>–</strong> he explains: ‘So that I can tell my wife<br />
that I am going to my mistress, and my mistress that<br />
I have to be with my wife . . .’ ‘And then, what do<br />
you do?’ ‘I go to a solitary place to learn, learn, and<br />
learn!’»<br />
<strong>–</strong> Slavoj Žižek<br />
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