For the poor, those with no financial or military means, all they have is their discipline, their capacity to act together. This discipline is already a form of organization. - Zizek

The above citation is quoted in God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse. It is quoted from a previous text. It isn't a response or rebuttal. The situation becomes clear, Slavoj Žižek and Boris Gunjevic haven't brought swords, they've come to riff. The text isn't structured as a debate but a call and response of ideas, each assertion elicits a germ which blossoms under the counterpart. The Gunjevic sections often left me clueless, he employs an obscure and specialized vocabulary and I often I felt the parsing wasn't worth the effort. His reading of Augustine's [b:City of God|25673|City of God (Penguin Classics)|Augustine of Hippo|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1348947938s/25673.jpg|5814] was noteworthy.


Zizek was his usual astonishing self. His rumination on Christ as atheist was remarkable and his essay on Derrida and animals has kept me thinking all afternoon. ( )