°Žižek, televangelist
Erik M. Vogt, in “Schmittian Traces in Žižek’s Political Theology (and Some Derridean Specters)” (diacritics 36.1), writes:
the (Christian) miracle of incarnation functions, for Žižek, as the elementary matrix for the act out of which a politics of true universality is to be generated. However, does the mutilated body of Christ really suffice as a bearer for a universalist position of defense against globalized cyberspace, against the mediatization of the miracle? As far as I can tell, Žižek never considers the possibility and actual ubiquity of a mediatized incarnation. Could it be because this would require the admission of “a certain artificiality and technicity, rendering the miracle as what de Vries calls “special effect” [“In Media Res” 25]? And if one grants the possibility of this interface between Christianity on the one hand, and the medium and mediatic on the other hand, would one not have to reposition Christianity — no longer along the lines of a politicizing logic of universality, but rather along the lines of a depoliticizing logic of globalization or “globalatinization,” that is, in terms of a “strange treaty between Christianity as experience of the death of god and the tele-techno-scientific capitalism”?
