September 2011
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There has been, from the outset, something about its [WikiLeaks’] activities that goes way beyond liberal conceptions of the free flow of information. We shouldn’t look for this excess at the level of content. The only surprising thing about the WikiLeaks revelations is that they contain no surprises. Didn’t we learn exactly what we expected to learn? The real disturbance was at the...
October 2010
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September 2010
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August 2010
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“Does that mean the way that we think about such [ecological] threats is wrong?
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– Slavoj Zizek interviewed in new scientist
“Closely linked to the necessary de-fetishization of ‘democratic institutions’ is...”
– zizek (via zizekianrevolution)
July 2010
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This is objet a: an entity that has no substantial consistency, which is in itself “nothing but confusion,” and which acquires a definite shape only when looked upon from a standpoint distorted by the subject’s desires and fears - as such, as a mere “shadow of what it is not,” objet a is the strange object which is nothing but the inscription of the subject...
June 2010
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Bloody Beetroots vs Refused - New Noise
I first...
May 2010
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“I think that the liberal prohibition of enemies [in politics] has a very precise...”
– Slavoj Zizek, “The Uses and Misuses of Violence” seminar, Nunemaker Hall, Loyola University, Nov. 17, 2009
“And then she smiled
Just for fraction of a little while
And everything was...”
– Adorable - Sunshine Smile
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Joe Public v the volcano by Slavoj Žižek
We are living in an age when we are both able to change nature and more at its mercy than ever –– as the Icelandic volcano has proved.
Many of those who have a fear of flying are haunted by a particular thought: that is, how many parts of such a complicated machine as a modern plane have to function smoothly in order for it to stay in the air? One small lever breaks somewhere, and the plane...
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History is the alienation and production of reason in unreason, of the true man in the alienated man. Without knowing it, man realizes the essence of man in the alienated products of his labour (commodities, State, religion). The loss of man that produces history and man must presuppose a definite pre-existing essence. At the end of history, this man, having become inhuman objectivity, has...
April 2010
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Remember Cornelius?
inspelningen:
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“Zizek is my M16, Lacan is my shield and Hegel is my belt buckle of truth.”
– YES!
me (via zizekianrevolution)
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Proletarization
A proper hegelian reading of Marx: late capitalism implies proletarization. Capital captures rent by appropriating our cultural, external and internal commons, producing subjects without substance.
Living in times of a constant state of emergency, we are all potential homo sacers.
Therefore: embracing radical proletarian subjectivity, the subject is already a living dead.
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The Touch of the Real
The persistence of radical negativity is what the later Lacan generically characterised as the Real: the ultimate “signified” around which all signification is constituted and simultaneously finds its limitation and inexorable failure. As is well documented elsewhere, the Real is inextricably linked with the registers of the Symbolic and the Imaginary and together these form a basic...
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Living in the End Times
As you probably already know, Zizek is releasing a new book (Living in the End Times) next month. From versobooks.com:
Zizek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the “four riders of the apocalypse”
There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Zizek has identified the four horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide...
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ursusanima:
the only “boring” people are those that, paradoxically, engage in much activity so as not to feel boredom — their lack of values is compensated by losing themselves within some mechanical enjoyment which requires so little of them, sometimes only to be present. such is living in a given world.
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“Strictly speaking, perversion is an inverted effect of the phantasy. It is the...”
“What if democracy, in the second sense (the regulated procedure of registering...”
– Slavoj Žižek “In defense of Lost Causes”
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Watchcop223:
Dum Dum Girls - Catholicked
Cheers, rosekohl.
Primavera sound 2010!
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