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mr tea: politically the modernists seemed to cover the spectrum: the Italian Futurists were fascists (in fact i would say they established the ideological foundations for Italian fascism), the Surrealists tended to be Marxists/Trotskyites, the Dadaists were cultural if not political anarchists...

i've been out of town for a week. this is a good conversation, lots to say here. in terms of prole or working class modernism, i think the Ash Can painters and some of the American communist poets (especially Kenneth Fearing) are outstanding. Still definitely modernist, very experimental, but...

all those guys were wearing jorts and had a warm can of Milwaukee's Best in in hand when those pics were taken.

are we talking about high modernism or radical modernism? then there's paramodernism (a fav term of mine), which is beyond/beside modernism but develops within it, rather than against it like postmodernism (William Gibson, for example, idenfifies himself as a paramodern). but yeah i think the...

exactly. by jouissance Lacan means unmediated enjoyment, it's a simultaneous experience of trauma and orgasm, or the 'oceanic feeling' Freud talked about. Capitalism offers substitutes. I think this is a standard response because it is so obvious. Television really is (chemically) addictive...

fascist = neocon, or anyone who goes to dinners at which neocons are present, etc. Zizek also thinks the American president should be voted for only by non-Americans. He supported Bush during one of the elections, maybe it was 2000. This is from Zizek's response to Bush's re-election in 2004...

George Harrison wrote better songs for the Beatles during the late phase (67-) than McCartney. Consider Something, Here Comes the Sun, and While My Guitar Gently Weeps against McCartney classics like ObladiOblada, Hello Goodbye, and Penny Lane. He tried to recreate the Beatles with Wings and it...

i remember his involvement with NSK and all that in Slovenia - i used to be engaged to an art critic who worked with the NSK collective, she knew Zizek then. To me Zizek's politics are secondary to all the cultural studies/Lacan/Hegel analyses. I think Zizek stays in line with most of the...

yeah economically we are post-industrial (global, digital, services, knowledge, etc.), and culturally we are post-modern. there's no awareness of high or radical modernist culture, we are less advanced that than. i can't find a meaninful difference between contemporary art and popular culture...

with or without communism, something has to come after capitalism. it's an organic system, it has evolved over time. we went from surplus/gift economies to barter and trade, to international markets and digital currency networks. liberal capitalism and democracy don't afford much in the way of...

haha 'bad to the bone' - yeah serj wasn't too keen about people sleeping with his girl. i don't think he knew about our little tryst (one time deal when she visited me in new mexico), but i know she was kind of with this other guy and serj got in a fist fight with him outside a theater one night...

by me: sleeping with innumerable wives, fiances, girlfriends, etc. girls always pick me to cheat on their guys with. never understood why. probably because i don't have any friends (people make me sick :p) and i don't kiss and tell. which reminds me, one of those was serj tankian's...

heh that's true, but this is still a problem scientists, psychologists, etc are grappling with. it simply doesn't have an easy answer. we know that other people think, and that we communicate etc., but there's the whole question of 'qualia' (one of the reasons i brought up dennett): we know...

it's interesting that the mother is only ever a partial object or fragment, never a subject. desire can only have an object but no subject. for example, the breast, or the mother's image in a mirror (this is what drives the Imaginary phase, which I guess would be roughly equated with the...

from what i understand the oedipus complex works like this (from Freud/Lacan's 'primal horde' myth): at an early stage in human evolution, pre-human acestors (cavemen, neanderthals, homo erectus) had no incest prohibition except from the primal father (or original lawgiver). The sons would try...

yeah - that's an odd film. reminds me a little of 2001 or jodorowski. husserl and heidegger had different ideas about the thing-in-itself irrc. there was a split in phenomenology as to whether or not abstract representations mediate the direct experience. Heidegger and Sartre went against...

for Zizek, the Democracy Now interviews and The Pervert's Guide to Cinema are great introductions. Pervert's Guide is on YouTube in chunks or i can hunt down a torrent. Zizek's Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (1991 i think) is excellent, very entertaining cultural studies...

i thought it was gek-opel... w/ the matthew barney pic right? weird that animals can't think or use abstract signifiers, but humans are permanently lost in some kind of representation. the idea of the signifying chain is that it has a kind of mechanical force and our consciousness is organized...

no i like Zizek - to me reading his stuff is like a workout. it is very encyclopedic, dense, pynchonian, esp The Parallax View, the David Lynch essay, and Introduction to Lacan through Popular Culture. The later Lacan stuff is really interesting, especially Seminar 23: The Sinthome which is...

i think it's odd that a Lacanian would become a rock star in Europe (with the underwear model wife and all) in the wake of the Sokal affair. Zizek seems to avoid the later Lacan and i think his interpretation of the sinthome as essentially "stupid" is way off. The only Lacan really worth...