I am a blogger at paradoxoftheday.com. My main occupation is doing a PhD in political philosophy, with a primary focus on Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt. In the meantime, I blog about paradoxes, and lately more on difficulties in reading certain politico-philosophical texts. Whatever is interesting from there and deserves a video comes here :). Subscribe if you like, all proceeds go to maintaining the website.
I also collect interesting all material that is legal for reproduction on zizek.uk, so occasionally some of Zizek's videos appear here.
Uber's public, and oftentimes state-supported, campaigns to call for a ride after a long night of drinking, rather than to drive, might be a little helpful in this context of contemporary consumerism. There is now a "responsible drunk", who while he destroys his body and mind, uses capital to avoid to pitfall of an arrest, and thus is able to repeat it as many times as he can afford. Zizek's talk on the subject seems to describe a change in a mode of production rather than ideological criticism of the social changes themselves.
I like how Zizek subtly or not so subtly ascertains Hegel's position as representing love !the four representatives of German idealism). Zizek's loyalry never quavers as it shouldn't.
Mother,every wants mother System i agree with mother,meine wahre Schöpferin.But most woman dont understand this true.In nature she is stronger.I dont mean violence,violence is the paradox in popolikan Strategie failed,urgh.
Problem with communists and activists: I love Slavoj Zizek as a guy, but his case for communism basically consists of China (only insofar as it lifted many out of poverty even though it was communism that kept them in poverty until then, and now that that has happened, he admits China is not doing well), and then he waves at general ills of capitalist countries. That’s his entire case that he’s spent his life on. You’ll always find faults in anything, but that approach is the main flaw of the thinking of hardcore activists as well: they proclaim the ills of the system they are against and think it’s a trump card. It’s too easy. Bad, compared to what? You need to posit a plausible system that will have fewer ills. And plausible isn’t even good enough. Again, it’s too easy to say “just imagine the system I propose. It would be better. I won’t provide the details or the proof, but I’m virtuous for standing behind this idea”.
Slavoz zizek, Are sure that the Catholics so perverse as to intentionally indulge in guilt for enjoyment, or pretend innoscent and make love, to be guilty?
Bekhterev's Collective Reflexology could reveal bystanders on captured flights like United 93 as being collectively concentrated by collective egotism. The situation of listening to Zizek now offer's one the possible dramatic genre needed for Bekhterev's imagination and memory to become involved. A sense of collectivity provides a setting and description supported by physical details like crowds, Soviets, and committees. A psychological tone may detail symbiotic relationships where mushrooms are parasitic to their environment. Bekhterev stands as a partly decomposed corpse in the memory of the world. Zizek is still alive, but we may require a debate between him and the corpse of Russia.
So there was no critique just the classic socialist class struggle lens through which they see every social problem. I should have known he wasn’t intelligent enough to critique her
Ayn Rand's bootlickers have to defend her by saying any critique of her is "isn't a real critique." It's the same reson Ayn pretended to like Greek philosophers that she never read. You like the idea of sounding like a debate master while rejecting any attempts of debate.
Now, to provoke you a little bit : The assumption of an "universality" is nothing but the result of a desperate quest for a solution to questions, the mind poses to itself. Ultimately again, "universality" is precisely that which is agreed upon. It becomes totally useless at the moment it is found.
