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A Human Example: Zizek
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Posted 12/05/08 - 02:00 PM:
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Watch what he says about the universe starting from 00:23. When he declares that “… total vanity. There is nothing basically. I mean it quite literally”, is he referring to his attitude about universe or the universe itself? Which one is it? The viewer would be stunned because what Zizek just said is just outrageous.


You assume, and I do mean assume, a materialist metaphysics of sciencism, which Zizek does not. One is free to do so of course, and attach all kinds of provisos and defintions about sense and nonsense to your underlying metaphysics, but Zizek's view of "nothing" and "something" is quite different than yours. You may say "Within my Realist view of the world [you sound like a Realist, or at least an empiricist], his comments are nonsense", but what you cannot say is "Within all metaphysical conceptions his comments are nonsense". It is when you want to go from one to the other that you get in trouble.

All the same though, thank you for posting this Nonsense on youtube, much appreciated.

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Posted 12/05/08 - 03:08 PM:
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Is Lacan one of those guys who writes like Guattari?


We can clearly see that there is no bi-univocal correspondence between
linear signifying links or archi-writing, depending on the author, and this
multireferential, multidimensional machinic catalysis. The symmetry of
scale, the transversality, the pathic non-discursive character of their
expansion: all these dimensions remove us from the logic of the excluded
middle and reinforce us in our dismissal of the ontological binarism we
criticised previously. A machinic assemblage, through its diverse
components, extracts its consistency by crossing ontological thresholds,
non-linear thresholds of irreversibility, ontological and phylogenetic
thresholds, creative thresholds of heterogenesis and autopoiesis. The notion
of scale needs to be expanded to consider fractal symmetries in ontological
terms.

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Posted 12/05/08 - 04:04 PM:
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Paul C. Anagnostopoulos wrote:
Is Lacan one of those guys who writes like Guattari?




No. Worse. He is the arch obscuritist. Lacan was Guattari's Analyst.

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Posted 12/05/08 - 04:11 PM:
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Lacan was Guattari's Analyst.

Surely you're making that up?

~~ Paul

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Posted 12/05/08 - 04:45 PM:
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Paul C. Anagnostopoulos wrote:

Surely you're making that up?

~~ Paul



I am not. And I would appreciate it if you stopped calling me Shirley.

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Posted 12/06/08 - 02:40 AM:
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Slavoj: since clothes can be stored in cupboard, wardrobe is simply a convention established by the capitalist so when you set up bedroom you buy wardrobe while cupboard is spacious. See, you are missing the reality of clothes.

Housewife: hmm... I’m just worried that the clothes might get soaked with smell when I bake apple pies.

Slavoj: [rubs nose] you don’t need apple pies, your kids obtain exactly the same nutritions from eating apples and wheat separately. Apple pie is an invention of the capitalist glutton who sells ovens, so to speak. Actually, I should say that in reality the kitchen itself is a myth... as part of a mythology consisting in the marriage between women and houses. So ridicules. Tell me, won’t you join us proletariat?

Housewife: it moves me that you have such a passionate cause... where shall I put the clothes?

Slavoj: do I look like housewife? Just put them wherever you want, that’s the point!

Housewife: in the wardrobe then, the kitchen smells. By the way I'm going to bake that apple pie now, won't you stay for dinner?

Slavoj: [burps] thank you very much.

grin thanks, Annan.



@stampit,

And Zizek spoke at Columbia University. But then again, Ahmadinejad was also invited and did speak at Columbia U.
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Posted 09/19/09 - 11:27 PM:
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Zizek is a very brave philosopher.
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Posted 09/19/09 - 11:56 PM:
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Interesting. Thanks for the bump, Vigotski, however random it may be. I've read some Lacan, the whole pidgeon gonads bit, but didn't get much of a chance to read more (though my friend describes himself as a "card carrying Lacanian," so I just absorb shit off him). I'll watch these videos, and hopefully have something meaningless to say afterward.

sad the documentary and lecture are no longer available due to various violations of the capitalist pigs' rules.

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