blackpixie
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"perverts guide to cinema" where he goes on about hitchcock and david lynch and all their lacanian tendencies is really really interesting. As a literary and film critic he is at his best.
When he is at his worst is when he starts idolising stalin just for the hell of it, and using comments his roma nanny made as a base for arguments that - despite whether or not they are worthwhile - can so easily be distorted by the slightest mis understanding. for instance @lenin's tomb
Most of his arguments must be defended in the "comments section" with sentences like "zizek is not advocating genocide just because he says that hitler was not violent enough"
When he is at his worst is when he starts idolising stalin just for the hell of it, and using comments his roma nanny made as a base for arguments that - despite whether or not they are worthwhile - can so easily be distorted by the slightest mis understanding. for instance @lenin's tomb
Most of his arguments must be defended in the "comments section" with sentences like "zizek is not advocating genocide just because he says that hitler was not violent enough"
Bettysnake
twisted pony ******
Zizek on Egypt
Unusually non-spitty and understandable on Al Jazeera on the Egyptian uprisings. Great Tom and Jerry moment. Better than Mr Oldstyle Chomsky Chomsk.
Unusually non-spitty and understandable on Al Jazeera on the Egyptian uprisings. Great Tom and Jerry moment. Better than Mr Oldstyle Chomsky Chomsk.
grizzleb
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Was cutting about outside my uni when I heard the unmistakable eastern european accent, looked up and he was talking to a couple of people gesticulating wildly and I overheard him saying 'No, but fuck them!' (etc). I caught his eye with a big grin as they walked past. Hahah. Nutcase. He clearly never turns off.
luka
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in anticpation of zizek vs peterson
ive got locked into watching this
will self vs zizek lool
will self just said ive been at home all day
smoking dope and wanking like everybody else
loool
but ive been in bed preserving my precious
bodily fluids, drinking black coffee and watching
two men perform a kind of burlesque of intellectualism.
ive got locked into watching this
will self vs zizek lool
will self just said ive been at home all day
smoking dope and wanking like everybody else
loool
but ive been in bed preserving my precious
bodily fluids, drinking black coffee and watching
two men perform a kind of burlesque of intellectualism.
john eden
male pale and stale
Just gonna wheel this one up and fist bump my younger self.
william_kent
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vershy versh
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Read an old article of his earlier which further solidified Craner's thing of Silvio being the chief architect of 2020s politics:
Berlusconi is a significant figure, and Italy an experimental laboratory where our future is being worked out. If our political choice is between permissive-liberal technocratism and fundamentalist populism, Berlusconi’s great achievement has been to reconcile the two, to embody both at the same time. It is arguably this combination which makes him unbeatable, at least in the near future: the remains of the Italian ‘left’ are now resigned to him as their fate. This is perhaps the saddest aspect of his reign: his democracy is a democracy of those who win by default, who rule through cynical demoralisation.
Berlusconi acts more and more shamelessly: not only ignoring or neutralising legal investigations into his private business interests, but behaving in such a way as to undermine his dignity as head of state. The dignity of classical politics stems from its elevation above the play of particular interests in civil society: politics is ‘alienated’ from civil society, it presents itself as the ideal sphere of the citoyen in contrast to the conflict of selfish interests that characterise the bourgeois. Berlusconi has effectively abolished this alienation: in today’s Italy, state power is directly exerted by the bourgeois, who openly exploits it as a means to protect his own economic interest, and who parades his personal life as if he were taking part in a reality TV show.
vershy versh
Well-known member
Read an old article of his earlier which further solidified Craner's thing of Silvio being the chief architect of 2020s politics:
Berlusconi is a significant figure, and Italy an experimental laboratory where our future is being worked out. If our political choice is between permissive-liberal technocratism and fundamentalist populism, Berlusconi’s great achievement has been to reconcile the two, to embody both at the same time. It is arguably this combination which makes him unbeatable, at least in the near future: the remains of the Italian ‘left’ are now resigned to him as their fate. This is perhaps the saddest aspect of his reign: his democracy is a democracy of those who win by default, who rule through cynical demoralisation.Berlusconi acts more and more shamelessly: not only ignoring or neutralising legal investigations into his private business interests, but behaving in such a way as to undermine his dignity as head of state. The dignity of classical politics stems from its elevation above the play of particular interests in civil society: politics is ‘alienated’ from civil society, it presents itself as the ideal sphere of the citoyen in contrast to the conflict of selfish interests that characterise the bourgeois. Berlusconi has effectively abolished this alienation: in today’s Italy, state power is directly exerted by the bourgeois, who openly exploits it as a means to protect his own economic interest, and who parades his personal life as if he were taking part in a reality TV show.
And this at the end echoes a lot of the criticism I've seen of Labour and the Dems coming from the left:
The formula of ‘reasonable anti-semitism’ was best formulated in 1938 by Robert Brasillach, who saw himself as a ‘moderate’ anti-semite:
We grant ourselves permission to applaud Charlie Chaplin, a half Jew, at the movies; to admire Proust, a half Jew; to applaud Yehudi Menuhin, a Jew; and the voice of Hitler is carried over radio waves named after the Jew Hertz … We don’t want to kill anyone, we don’t want to organise any pogroms. But we also think that the best way to hinder the always unpredictable actions of instinctual anti-semitism is to organise a reasonable anti-semitism.
We grant ourselves permission to applaud Charlie Chaplin, a half Jew, at the movies; to admire Proust, a half Jew; to applaud Yehudi Menuhin, a Jew; and the voice of Hitler is carried over radio waves named after the Jew Hertz … We don’t want to kill anyone, we don’t want to organise any pogroms. But we also think that the best way to hinder the always unpredictable actions of instinctual anti-semitism is to organise a reasonable anti-semitism.
Our governments righteously reject populist racism as ‘unreasonable’ by our democratic standards, and instead endorse ‘reasonably’ racist protective measures. ‘We grant ourselves permission to applaud African and Eastern European sportsmen, Asian doctors, Indian software programmers,’ today’s Brasillachs, some of them social democrats, are telling us. ‘We don’t want to kill anyone, we don’t want to organise any pogroms. But we also think that the best way to hinder the always unpredictable, violent actions of the instinctual anti-immigrant is to organise reasonable anti-immigrant protection.’ A clear passage from direct barbarism to Berlusconian barbarism with a human face.
mixed_biscuits
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Yes: Agamben's 'reasonable anti-semitism' as promoted by you, otherwise known as "ethical anti-semitism", which I may or may not have originally come up with.