Although he proclaims Hegel as his ultimate hero, iek, the most
popular philosopher of our time, has a mode much closer to Nietzsche.
Hegel’s work is all about ancient labor, Nietzsche’s is all about
modern dancing. Žižek philosophizes like a dancer, and he writes
the way he talks: fast and funny. You almost never understand how all
his thoughts fit together, but you are always entertained by the way he
picks up this or that thing, analyzes it, and then drops it. (Town
Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave, 652-4255. 7:30 pm, $5.)

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...