Icon Staff Books of the Year Part 4
Posted on 2011/12/21 , tagged as
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Chosen by Andrew Furlow, Sales and Marketing Director
‘Introducing – Icon’s graphic guide series – were the books I most loved about Icon before I joined and the latest new title, on the Slovenian maverick philosopher Slavoj Zizek is a really brilliant example of what makes the series so unique. Zizek – who attracts audiences that most popstars would be proud of – can be oblique and confusing. But author Christopher Kul-Want (along with Piero’s characteristically grotesque illustrations) manages to make him not only comprehensible but hugely exciting – the metaphor of the Mobius strip to explain Zizek’s notion that language is fictional is truly inspired! Essential reading for anyone in their Occupy tent of the mind this festive season…’
