While Brockelman raises a number of interesting questions regarding Žižek in particular, I was somewhat disappointed that he didn’t manage a reverse reading of the two. In the first section he raises the question of The Question Concerning Technology and notes that despite Žižek’s insistence that it is not the question, not the fundamental question, in fact he circles around the question in precisely the fashion that drive is described as circling around what it cannot directly reach. Rather than turning the tables and questioning Žižek via Heidegger’s question concerning technology, Brockelman appears to have a very limited understanding of that work and Heidegger’s work overall. He follows in the footsteps of many who have not sufficiently dwelled in an author’s work to see what is at play in the work, in many ways duplicating a number of failed critiques of Žižek that Brockelman notes are of limited use and…