"The people that really have it the worst are the people that get kicked out of the system, in a sense they get up to that wall, they can't get past it nor can they go back and they're just there[...]". What an incredibly profound summary, this has opened my mind.
At 2:42…..”he’s obviously an anti racist thinker”…although he’s writing about hatred for whites and the acceptability of hacking them to pieces with machetes.
When schizophrenia become naturalized as a way of thinking we'll all be better off. To stop demonizing people for any reason will be a great leap forward. I'm speaking as one who in my youth did have what was called mania and then schizophrenia (both in conjunction with attemps to leave a backward husband with other, more interesting men) and was treated in the typical drconian way with concrete cell isolation, forced drugging (a very long needle in the ass) and "life long" prescriptiohns for psycotropic drugs, which of course I routinely weaned myself from. It's been very difficult. I am now 70, free of psychiatry all together but see that the system still pumps out billions of dollars of drugs into the human family along with draconian managers who people must visit or suffer to come to their doors every day with their "meds." It's very cruel. It is NOT mental health care. It is mental health destruction.
Characterizations of the upper and political, hence predator class, therefore allowance and privilege are boring darling why don't we go out and act like
Lacan learned Saussure from Levi-Strauss instead of reading " A Course on General Linguistics". He used the idea of Henri Wallon on " mirror test" and turned it to Mirror Stage without citing Wallon as the original source. Lacan might be an influential thinker of the 20th century, but this instance of academic dishonesty and deliberate distortion of some ideas should not be forgotten.
Virilio's claim on "Globalization IS the speed of light" is not totally correct but undersea internet cables are relatively close, could we pass the speed of light itself? If we apply Einstein's theory of Relativity, it's clear we cannot surpass light's speed.
wow, thank you so much, im someone who is an engineer, and never got exposed to the humanities as i contribute to optimizing these desiring machines (as I have just realized) , thank you so so much for putting this out there.
I don’t understand what she is talking about when she says Socrates was trying to get specific answers out of Meno. I thought the whole point of the Socratic method was that Socrates didn’t have any answers so he was just asking questions.
What would happen if folks like Cesaire went deep inside countries like Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Where people are born and brought up with colonial mindsets, ideas, table manners, habits, holidays, etc etc. as such, inside an institution one can expose and trash capitalism colonialism as much as they wish. Makes zero impact ' nor difference to outside reality.
Examples given in this video of users of the "friend enemy distinction": Trump Duterte Erdogan Bush Fidel Castro Hugo Chávez (modified to make "poverty" the enemy)
Ok! Great lecture!!! I've been reading Anti-Oedipus along with other material, including Baudrillard, and imo D&G are by far the hardest read. I feel that quality material on the subject, such as this lecture, and a lecture I'm taking on posthumanism at my University go a long way to "guide" through their work!
Thanks Shannon! Listening to your videos at the gym after a full day of work at my spreadsheet job is the reason why I am one step closer to taking over the world.
