this guy has used mountains of cocaine.
― by another name (amateurist), Sunday, May 23, 2010 9:58 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
In seminars, Lacan acts as analysand, he “freely associates,” improvises, jumps, addressing his public, which is thus put into the role of a kind of collective analyst. In comparison, his writings are more condensed, formulaic, and they throw at the reader unreadable ambiguous propositions which often appear like oracles, challenging the reader to start working on them, to translate them into clear theses and provide examples and logical demonstrations of them. In contrast to the usual academic procedure, where the author formulates a thesis and then tries to sustain it through arguments, Lacan not only more often than not leaves this work to the reader – the reader has often even to discern what, exactly, is Lacan’s actual thesis among the multitude of conflicting formulations or the ambiguity of a single oracle-like formulation.
zizek u have no self awareness do u
http://www.lacan.com/zizhowto.html
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 21 March 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Zizek calls himself a Lacanian all the time
― Mordy, Monday, 21 March 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
has he weighed in on libya yet? he was super gung ho about the egyptian revolution and projected all kinds of utopian aims on to its protagonists.
― BIG GERTRUDE aka the steindriver (history mayne), Monday, 21 March 2011 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a silly complaint since liberalism as it is practiced in America IS economic neoliberalism. People who oppose neoliberalism are either the detoothed hippies who cannot engage the system in a meaningful way, or the radical terrorists who move the battlefield from an economic confrontation to one of violent force. But if you're gonna take about liberal democracy in the US you have to talk about economic neoliberalism.
― Mordy, Friday, December 17, 2010 7:40 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark
so incredibly offensive on so many levels
― sleeve, Monday, 21 March 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
so be less offended
― Mordy, Monday, 21 March 2011 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
omg mordman
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 21 March 2011 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
lol, are either of you going to point out to me the relevant non-neoliberal groups in America?
― Mordy, Monday, 21 March 2011 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
beliebers
― max, Monday, 21 March 2011 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
never change with your either/or simplifications. Mordy. fortunately the real world is more complex.
by the way there are friends of mine who are gonna be in jail for years to come for some serious environmental sabotage actions and I do not appreciate your spoiled liberal NYC characterizations of their motives.
― sleeve, Monday, 21 March 2011 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
dude, take a look around. the neoliberal superstructure is more powerful than ever. how did your friends challenge the system whatsoever?
― Mordy, Monday, 21 March 2011 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
and btw: environmental sabotage probably falls under the move to radical violence category so Zizek accounts for that (and kinda favorably too)
― Mordy, Monday, 21 March 2011 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
+ btw sleeve, lol at you of all ppl accusing someone of simplifications
why would I bother trying to point you towards some oppositional groups when you reserve the right to define "relevancy", like you think you have the right to define the terms of every single argument you get into.
fwiw I think the farmer's market movement has done more good than the friends I reference.
― sleeve, Monday, 21 March 2011 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
lol ok. why don't u go be angry somewhere else
― Mordy, Monday, 21 March 2011 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
why don't you stop simplifying complex elements of resistance to fit your kneejerk prejudices?
― sleeve, Monday, 21 March 2011 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link
you're right. i should stop. there. i stopped. thx for changing my life.
― Mordy, Monday, 21 March 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
its amazing i get up to take a shit and its like the muppet babies broke loose
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 21 March 2011 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
gross
― BIG GERTRUDE aka the steindriver (history mayne), Monday, 21 March 2011 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
think we maybe all need a reminder this isn't the US Politics thread but the This is the thread where we talk about Slavoj Zizek... thread
― Mordy, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
on cspan atm talking about wikileaks
― Mordy, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
w/ Amy Goodman
― Mordy, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
oh, and Julian apparently! just noticed him sitting there
yeah i saw that on saturday, kind of fun, mostly just recaps his piece in the LRB about how wikileaks has changed things and implores assange not to let wikileaks be subsumed into the "freedom of the press" thing and maintain their independence as something more than radical "journalists" and shit
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
this idea that censorship indicates something positive about a country bc that censorship is needed is such a stupid idea and i think it's really indicative of a failing of the left to grapple meaningfully w/ these reasonably open democratic societies such that there's this natural yearning to go back to a moment of censorship where it becomes more clear what needs to be resisted.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
also a failing of zizek to stop himself from saying whatever is the craziest thing at a particular moment
goin to a conference in oct where among those in attendance will be the director of "zizek!"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 7 August 2011 07:59 (twelve years ago) link
have u seen the examined life by the same woman that also features zizek & is a lot better both for his segment & the rest imo?
― uh oh whats your fantasy (flopson), Sunday, 7 August 2011 08:01 (twelve years ago) link
also she is jeff mangum's girlfriend or wife
i just saw it last night, by coincidence! and yeah his segment is fun for sure
lol @ michael hardt
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 7 August 2011 09:25 (twelve years ago) link
more like michael fardt
― max, Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:15 (twelve years ago) link
empire by michael fardt and antonio naglri
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 7 August 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
examined life is worse than the zizek documentary
― markers, Sunday, 7 August 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
astra taylor is cool though, she spoke at my school the semester after i graduated
rewatched zizek last night for funzies and realized that even there he was on this bead of trying not to be ~appropriated into the liberal consensus~
i always lol when he says "this, i claim,"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 7 August 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/RMTRC.jpg
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKbsdMRqhcI (Princess TamTam), Monday, 8 August 2011 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
<3
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/706-communism-a-new-beginning-alain-badiou-and-slavoj-zizek-with-verso-books-at-cooper-union-new-york-october-14th-16th-2011
i'm gonna be in ny that weekend
kinda wanna go tbh?
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
i say it's worth seeing Zizek at least once just so you can confirm for yourself that he's an actual human being and not some collective psychotic hallucination
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
also bc as often as you think he grabs his shirt and rubs his nose? he does it more in person
The website to book your ticket is here: http://communism.eventbrite.com/
lmao
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
IRL every so often he grabs your shirt and wipes his nose.
x-post
― trapdoor fucking spiders (dowd), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
definitely go see zizek
― markers, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
holy shit i could actually make this show.
― fields of salmon, Friday, 30 September 2011 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
go
― markers, Friday, 30 September 2011 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
damn they just sold out
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 30 September 2011 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
i was literally about to buy my ticket
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 30 September 2011 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
was way more excited about badiou tbh
seriously think this guy is only as famous as he is cause he has a cool name
― iatee, Friday, 30 September 2011 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
hoos are you a hayekian or a communist or a technofuturist I can't figure it out
― iatee, Friday, 30 September 2011 04:07 (twelve years ago) link