ABSTRACT
Zizek offers a reading of ecology across many aspects of the notion. Given the effervescent style of his prose, this is hardly Zizek's only or most important contribution to ecological debates. Instead, it recommends the interested readers consider the notion of ecology-in-itself as it directly and obliquely manifests in Zizek's work through the philosophical, political and psychoanalytic lens common to this maestro of critique. The starting point for a reading of ecology in Zizek is, rightly or wrongly, nature although one should resist immediately rendering this passim as some orderly naturalism. Ecologies appear in a wide array of fields from biological sciences to media studies and Zizek is too aware that it is the fundamental principle of the ecological approach that is at issue in this multiplicity. Ecology for nature means the divine cosmic order disclosed by myths and poetry, not interpretation or modern scientific method.
