About Troy Polidori
The name is Troy Polidori. I hail from the land of the double-faced and the glittery fascistic (you know, Los Angeles), though I wouldn't have it any other way.
My interests have developed over time. Beginning with standard theology, the antagonisms therein propelled me to a journey through Barthianism, to liberal theology, and finally to a philosophical a/theism of a very particular sort. On my more optimistic days, I’d like to think I've attained Absolute Knowing (and the dialectical trajectory is there, is it not?), but I’ll let the reader be the judge of that.
My influences range from Spinoza, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Benjamin, Wittgenstein, Lacan, Ricoeur, Deleuze, Agamben, Žižek, Badiou, Meillassoux, and Malabou (quite the set of oppositions, right? I like to synthesize).
Michael Jimenez said:
How was the lecture? I had a Bday party to go to so I missed it. Did you also notice that he actually uses Barth in the new book?
Troy said:
It was alright, typical Zizek rehashing his use of Job, random Talmudic references, analysis of fundamentalism from On Belief, etc. Nothing particularly new, though I didn’t expect any of the new Hegel stuff given the topic of the evening.
He uses Barth in God in Pain or the Hegel book?
Michael Jimenez said:
Actually (typical Zizek) he uses the same info in both books. I have the Pain book and some sections of the Hegel book are online. It has to do with event and the future; he quotes Barth from God, Here and Now. I’m just glad he finally illustrates that he does read him…
Troy said:
Glad to hear it! One of the most frustrating things about Zizek is that his use of “theology” is typically restricted to a couple choice quotes from Chesterton. There’s a lot more out there!