never in a million years did i think i would ever find someone who talks about my EXACT niche of interest zizek freud lacan marx!!! im from a small town in mexico thank you so much for your content it is much appreciated!
Thank you!! Very good reasoning all the way through. Also good to be reminded of how solid and deep Zizek goes in his sometimes “populist” output. It’s all there. Solid. ❤
Zizek’s concept of “pseudo activity” is something I’ve sensed for a while, but couldn’t conceptualize clearly until now. For example, renovations and repairs are often made much more complicated and expensive than they need to be. Our legal system in the U.S. is also notorious for how slow and complicated it is, producing neither justice nor peace.
Wow. This was astonishing. Ty, i cant wait to continue exploring these ideas further thanks to your warm, pleasant and passionate articulations. Zizek was particularly difficult to understand, but more and more things become more clear. I equally so, i see that marxism has had a sort of character assassination, ive never heard it be explained in this kind of way. Always as an economic system primarily, not its finer philosophical points
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Julian, I never considered myself a sofisticted thinker, or even come to pretend I understand all the concepts and consequences, I mean, sometimes even the grammar and construction of the sentences inside an argument makes me dizzy. I really appreciate your work. In my limited capacity, your argumentation / discourse / reading / interpretation / exposition of how Zizek reads and try to present us how he sees the world through the Hegel/Marx/Lacan lense to "see" our "reality", simply blew my mind.... BTW Great insight into Eva's mirror stage realization. Genius! Thanks again!❤
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My phone is 17 years old. It still has the original battery too. I'm not ashamed of using it at all. It saves me from so much crap. I don't need to look at pictures that people send me, because my phone can't show them. No internet, no need to check the news or my mail or anything all the time. No need to get a new application for this or that; couldn't care less. Same kind of independence I have had all my life towards cosmetics. Whenever I enter a department store, the first floor can't sell me anything. I have zero interest in mascara of anything they have. Quite a powerful feeling.
Thank you for this. You're very eloquent, insightful and enjoyable to listen to 👌 I know we don't need external validation, but once in a while it's nice to find yourself nodding a lot hahah. I've been called unnatural on so many occasions not because I don't do things at all, but because I don't do things for the sake of doing them. I've been told I think too much, but it's always by people who don't really seem to think enough or at all. It makes you feel crazy and second guess yourself because things that people brush off, ignore or easily accept matter to you a lot. I also heavily resonate with the phrase 'bullshit jobs'. It's why I recently resigned from a prestigious job; I just couldn't take it anymore hahah.
Thank you very much for your lectures, you teach us so much! That is why I also feel need to teach you something. "Serbia" is not cold, it is in the South-Eastern Europe, just like Montenegro or North Macedonia. We are countries from former Yugoslavia. Žižek is also born in that country and he mentiones all our republics in his talks sometimes 😊.
I'm glad to have someone explain it using terms I am accustomed to hearing. The references to the Bible were great. There is so much busy-ness that we are told to participate in, without much reflection on the subject of the state of the world itself and what can be done about it by simply refusing to participate. It's always been a trap in the self-improvement movements to focus only on attaining what you want from a flawed system by participating in it, and by extension to attempt fixing a flawed system from within it. Instead of taking this leaking boat that is our society to the drydock to really fix it, we continue to sail the boat and patch it from the inside. We are told that the ship is sinking because we are not good enough sailors, when by all accounts, from people of both the right and the left, it appears that *the ship was created to sink so that we continue to fix it.* It's much like how in political discourse we are told to write our legislators, to vote, yet often the most radically aligned thing a politician could do for us is to simply not show up to work. If our choice of politicians really reflected our actual collective sentiments, there would be an empty chair. We would then be left to truly decide on something to do about this cessation, instead of the perpetuation, of a flawed system. Instead of continuing to wrestle with politicized issues ad nauseam from within a political environment, a collective agreement to refuse to participate in it would have the exact impact that the majority of us actually want.
!14:03 14:30 attention !16:39 repetition 20:21 off button 19:45 20:11 20:37 20:43 to say I am here 20:36 subject to 21:09 become 21:19 21:23 (Mark) 22:42 23:11
Plotinus’ concept of “the One” (which Plotinus insists is insentient) seems similar to what Julian means by “God” before God sees God’s reflection through human self consciousness.
Regarding the difference between being in the zone and repetition compulsion... How is losing yourself in the zone (running, reaching a mountain top, attending a u2 concert).. similar to mindfulness? Doesn't zen involve greater awareness, i.e. being fully alive in the present moment taking it all in (sounds, thoughts, etc) rather than losing yourself? Regarding pseudo-activity to avoid real action (ex. consumerism is the death drive of society), I like David Graeber BS Jobs suggestion that if you need to do something, give yourself the choice of that or just sitting there. BTW, any thoughts on the Zizek vs Jordan Peterson debate? BTW, I understand Zizek uses Hegel (late 1700s)+Lacanian Psychoanalysis (1900s) to analyze Freud / Death-Drive -> Marxism ... but didn't Marxism (1850s) come before Freud (1900s)?
11:09 "the fight for emancipation is the fight for time" i dont kno how to spell the name of the person who you're quoting. can someone plz help out, id really like to kno more about them
But according the Marx-derived Vygotskyan Activity-Theory tradition, through Leontiev, etc., Activity involves both physical and conceptual action orientated together towards the achievement of both personal and socially-meaningful objects, with all its inherent tensions and contradictions. But it's not either/or, but thinking and acting are part of holistic "activity".
