Asking Zizek

Igal, Sindy and I worked on a Python application that allows you to ask Zizek about some topics and generates an answer with words that the famous philosopher would use.

First we created a text file that contains sentences pronounced by Zizek as they were reported on interviews that we found on the internet, such as these:
http://www.lacan.com/perfume/Zizekinter.htm
http://nosubject.com/On_Divine_Self-Limitation_and_Revolutionary_Love

The application we wrote in Python takes those texts to create an answer with the words that Zizek used. You can only ask Zizek to talk about a topic, since the application takes just 1 word at a time. Once you run the module, in order to ask something, you have to call the following function: answer("word"). The software creates random words from Zizek until it reaches a dot.

Here is the python file: zizek_app.py and the text file with all Zizek’s words: zizek.txt