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Notes on ZizekZizek was as interesting a speaker as Alan Ginsburg or Stephen Toulmin. Below the fold are notes taken yesterday inside the back cover of The Camp of the Saints. Some embellishments crept in during transcription, but not many. On the uses and misuses of violence danish cartoons post-politics (rational administration versus populism even though I (Zizek) am a leftist, Le Pen and Patrick Buchanan are fascinating. At least they are not etiolated puppets mouthing content-leached truisms. the apolitea of the middle class. the right not to be harassed is a central right What is missing in our culture: a reserve or modesty shown in a story about notoriously bisexual Gore Vidal. When asked whether his first experience had been with a man or a woman, he claimed that he had been “too polite to ask.” We need alienation. Recent book, by Sam* Harris, on NYT list. Harris writes on torture and the evolutionary basis of sympathy, near page 100, and maintains that the squeamishness we feel about torturing a human being whose suffering is present to us - as opposed to, say, killing by ordering bombs to be dropped thousands of miles away - is analogous to certain visual illusions, such as those involving the perceived size of the moon. Harris proposes a thought experiment: a pill that induces an hour of horrible suffering, such that terrorists confess everything rather than endure another one, but the suffering induced is invisible and inaudible - the victim appears to be napping. Should we object? No, according to Harris; yes, says Zizek. In fact the Soviet tyranny had such a method! (Involving injections of curare, but he didn’t go into that.) abyss of the monstrous other. those who pretend to fight violence while inflicting violence. only comedy is appropriate to horror (the Holocaust), not tragedy— Primo Levi - “horrifying comedy” move the postcard! (??) we are told of suffering in some distant land and exhorted: “Do Something!” *original notes indicate that Zizek said “Ed Harris”. Ed Harris is an actor. Posted by Søren Renner on Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 05:33 PM in Comments:2
Posted by Rowan Berkeley on April 26, 2006, 01:59 PM | # If the quotation is correct, Zizek is being rather typically dishonest in the construction of his argument about language. He apparently asks “What makes a real Jew intolerable to an antisemite?” (answer: a symbol, symbolic mediation.) However, the expression “a real Jew” is completely null and void, given his own criteria. As for the term “antisemite”, it is cant (not Kant). Next entry: The Duke Lacrosse Flap III Previous entry: Some illegal immigration background |
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Posted by Andrew on April 21, 2006, 08:25 AM | #
Actually, I recall that name Zizek, I have this feeling in ancient times, he considered himself a Prophet, as the Gods descended from the heavens with a message, and we know the story of Sodom and Demure.
Fire and brimstone, all that stuff.
I wonder if that is the essence of his newly found fame.
This would prompt a new Hypothesis: Is it a celestial event that affects some humane thinking that takes place in 1000 year cycles, due to the changes in physics, although minor. It has something to do on the similar lines of a full Moon, but the gravity forces are somewhat greater in Celestial terms as the elliptical alignment of solar system and planetary alignment is changed temporarily; but consistent. Lunatic, Celestial- tick, hmmmm. Global warming- Ice age- History. I wonder.