oh, and Julian apparently! just noticed him sitting there
― Mordy, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
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
i believe in a thing called love
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 30 September 2011 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― markers, Friday, 30 September 2011 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
i mean on the real i would say i'm an anti-statist mutualist with a pretty endless optimism for the possibilities of the web, and although i'm still working out precisely how all that fits together for me systemically i definitely kinda spontaneously feel that all those ideas mesh.
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 30 September 2011 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
i do really like zizek's kinda bullshit rhetorical construction of "spontaneous affinity" with an idea ie "i haven't really thought about the compatibility of this idea with any of my other ideas with ~any depth at all~ but at least in a shallow way i like it"
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 30 September 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
But yeah I really dig guys like Kevin Carson & John Robb people thinking hard about how we can use the benefits of a decentralized production to build a kind of societal virtual machine inside the rapidly degrading OS we're currently running.
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 30 September 2011 04:28 (twelve years ago) link
trying to parse that but it is breaking my rapidly degrading os
― iatee, Friday, 30 September 2011 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
haha was abt to append a #stfu to my post
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 30 September 2011 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
at the end of the day tho aren't we all really just lacanians? #zizekrealtalk
― Mordy, Friday, 30 September 2011 04:38 (twelve years ago) link
hegelians i think
― max, Friday, 30 September 2011 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uh5MB17v9A
― banana mogul (goole), Monday, 3 October 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
hilarious appearance on normally wretched australian TV panel discussion show 'q and a' last night.
― australia's #2 convicted racist (haitch), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
So we're virtualized and we have to find another host society when this one falls over?
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
Is there like a societal hardware server farm
oh allow me my dumb flights of fancy sometimez
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
I have no doubt that you could excel at spewing out platitudes and mixed metaphors on the web
But if you do that, I am gonna have to kill you because you're better than that
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
would totally go for a pint with this dude
― Michael B, Thursday, 6 October 2011 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
I would go for a few pints with his wife.
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
^
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
Those who incessantly want to impose demands on the OWS movement may show good will and generosity, but fail to understand that the resistance movement is precisely about disobeying that kind of political maneuver. Similarly, those who want to push an ideology onto these new forms of political disobedience, like Slavoj Zizek or Raymond Lotta, are missing the point of the resistance.When Zizek complained last August, writing about the European protesters in the London Review of Books, that we’ve entered a “post-ideological era” where “opposition to the system can no longer articulate itself in the form of a realistic alternative, or even as a utopian project, but can only take the shape of a meaningless outburst,” he failed to understand that these movements are precisely about resisting the old ideologies. It’s not that they couldn’t articulate them; it’s that they are actively resisting them — they are being politically disobedient.And when Zizek now declares at Zuccotti Park “that our basic message is ‘We are allowed to think about alternatives’ . . . What social organization can replace capitalism?” ― again, he is missing a central axis of this new form of political resistance.
When Zizek complained last August, writing about the European protesters in the London Review of Books, that we’ve entered a “post-ideological era” where “opposition to the system can no longer articulate itself in the form of a realistic alternative, or even as a utopian project, but can only take the shape of a meaningless outburst,” he failed to understand that these movements are precisely about resisting the old ideologies. It’s not that they couldn’t articulate them; it’s that they are actively resisting them — they are being politically disobedient.
And when Zizek now declares at Zuccotti Park “that our basic message is ‘We are allowed to think about alternatives’ . . . What social organization can replace capitalism?” ― again, he is missing a central axis of this new form of political resistance.
i kinda think this is missing Zizek's point? it seems to me that preventing appropriation by the existing consensus, radical or otherwise, is one of his hobbyhorses.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 14 October 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
thought that say raymond liotta
― max, Friday, 14 October 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
xp not just missing the point but kinda incoherent itself. without articulating alternatives (utopian or otherwise) you're just articulating nihilism, no? surely zizek isn't saying that they need to fit into an already existing model, but that creating a space through dissent should (will?) ultimately produce something new/different.
― Mordy, Friday, 14 October 2011 23:13 (twelve years ago) link