And was this also not the truth about the whole of the Mandela memorial ceremony? All the crocodile tears of the dignitaries were a self-congratulatory exercise, and Jangtjie translated them into what they effectively were: nonsense. What the world leaders were celebrating was the successful postponement of the true crisis which will explode when poor, black South Africans effectively become a collective political agent. They were the Absent One to whom Jantjie was signalling, and his message was: the dignitaries really don't care about you. Through his fake translation, Jantjie rendered palpable the fake of the entire ceremony.
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― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Thursday, 19 December 2013 03:53 (ten years ago) link
hahahaha <3
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Thursday, 19 December 2013 03:54 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQsZMzcfYa0
brotherhood, unity, etc.
― j., Monday, 6 January 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
omg that doctor story at the end
― Mordy , Monday, 6 January 2014 21:56 (ten years ago) link
lot of books coming out this year
― markers, Friday, 14 February 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
like, at least four
he just does a word scramble of all his other books though
― sent from my butt (harbl), Friday, 14 February 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
I like the Philip Kaufman version, with Donald Sutherland. The ending, when the world is already occupied by body snatchers, you remember how the snatchers react when they see still humans? [Imitates Donald Sutherland’s gaping jaw howl] For years it became fashion among my friends to greet each other like this.
http://thephantomcountry.blogspot.de/2014/02/release-from-ideology-is-painful.html
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 February 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
heh seeing his initials like that made me think of
http://conversationalreading.com/images/S-Z-roland-barthes.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 28 February 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
My last revisionism: I quite liked—and I know this is the lowest of the lowest—the last two seasons of 24. You have Jack Bauer torturing, blah, blah, and you have Alison Taylor, good liberal president. They both got in the bad luck and break down. It shows very honestly how, within today’s universe, there is no way to be noble.
SF: You make me want to see it now.
SŽ: It’s not that good, I have to tell you. Life is too short. Fuck, even if you count out the publicity, it’s 24 times 45 minutes! Unless you are freak with nothing but time, it’s just too much.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 1 March 2014 06:31 (ten years ago) link
SF: I like it, but it’s sort of falling back on titties.
― j., Saturday, 1 March 2014 14:30 (ten years ago) link
Please Stop Worshipping the Superstar Professor Who Calls Students “Boring Idiots”
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 2 June 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
done
― mattresslessness, Monday, 2 June 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
would like to hear the opinions of his students rather than some journalist with an agenda
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Monday, 2 June 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
when i took him for a class in grad school he was always polite + thoughtful when students spoke to him. i vaguely remember him complaining about US students v. european students who he felt were more respectful + humble v. US students who were kinda loud children. i thought he was otm.
― Mordy, Monday, 2 June 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link
She's just confirming the stereotypes that Americans have no sense of irony and consider good customer service to be the most important quality.
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
Mordy: did he ask for papers though?
― ryan, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:38 (nine years ago) link
Ironically, she sounds like a boring idiot.
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
when i took him for a class in grad school
have you ever mentioned this?
― markers, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
I watched Pervert's Guide to Ideology recently and enjoyed it, although I felt like it came apart toward the end. Also, I have a problem with "They Live"/red pill-type metaphors about ideology. I mean, I think they're useful to an extent because they explain ideology as the default mode of seeing rather than something that's only there when you deliberately employ it. However, these metaphors seem to give people the idea that one can just take the "truth pill" or put on the "truth glasses" and suddenly be free of ideology, which is bullshit.
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:46 (nine years ago) link
read the sublime object if you're interested in a decent explanation of his notion of ideology
― markers, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
he contrasts it with marx's and althusser's early on
i feel like you're snarking me, markers bc surely i've mentioned that xp
also liked pervert's guide to ideology
and no, he didn't read the papers. avital ronell did. or one of her grad students. idk. who cares? papers are boring.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
seeing isn't being free it's only seeing; i can't remember but i'm sure "they know but still they are doing" was in there somewhere.
i was kinda disappointed by this after pervert's guide to cinema, felt a lil thinner/glibber? v easy to stare at for 2.5 hours tho.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
I generally get IA when people act like fucking babies about their professors.
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
xp I agree pervert's guide to cinema was better and a little more challenging too.
I thought maybe this one was meant to be a little bit more introductory.
I knew Mordy had taken a class by Zizek, so he's not making it up.
― Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
what can i say? i'm pretty valueless + empty w/ little to contribute or share beyond this one course i took more than half a decade ago. i'll never mention it again.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
what was it about. did he assign his own books. were you radicalized. tell us stories.
― ryan, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
helen vendler came to my masters program once and tough a class. that is my one brush with academic fame.
it was mostly about antigone, the family and the state. he assigned parallax from himself. the coolest thing i read in the course was derrida's glas. i wasn't radicalized. he told lots of filthy jokes that were very funny. some of the students in the course were doing some cool work. one particular guy was writing about haunted sites and collective trauma + memory in the south which i thought was very interesting.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
if you have i don't remember. no snark.
― markers, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
If I were Helen Vendler I wouldn't read papers either. I got a stack of"em staring at me.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
how much of academia is people saying things are interesting
― conrad, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
ideally all of it. practically 5%?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
one particular guy was writing about haunted sites and collective trauma + memory in the south which i thought was very interesting.
i'd be interested in this
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
not saying interesting things Mordy saying things are interesting
― conrad, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
We didn't really learn anything from WikiLeaks we didn't already presume to be true – but it is one thing to know it in general and another to get concrete data. It is a little bit like knowing that one's sexual partner is playing around. One can accept the abstract knowledge of it, but pain arises when one learns the steamy details, when one gets pictures of what they were doing.
― Mordy, Friday, 20 June 2014 02:48 (nine years ago) link
this is good http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/critique-of-zizek-on-kosovo-and-the-balkans-1/
― ey, Thursday, 10 July 2014 06:12 (nine years ago) link
reading "altai" by "wu ming" and there's a casual reference to a slavic seller of banned books called "gigek"
― max, Thursday, 10 July 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, ey, thanks for that, that was very interesting. Made me finally buy Badiou's Being and Event.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 10 July 2014 14:09 (nine years ago) link
Frederik: you might find 'Normalizing the Balkans' by Dusan Bjelic interesting, too.
― ey, Thursday, 10 July 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
http://www.newsweek.com/did-marxist-philosophy-superstar-slavoj-zizek-plagiarize-white-nationalist-journal-258433
When Newsweek contacted Critical Inquiry, James Williams, its senior managing editor, agreed that Žižek “absolutely” borrowed from Hornbeck’s review. “We’re very sorry it happened,” he said. “If we had known Žižek was plagiarizing, we would have certainly asked him to remove the illegal passages.”
Newsweek then contacted Hornbeck, who writes under a pseudonym. “Anyone who has seen the side-by-side comparisons can have no doubt that Žižek is a plagiarist,” he said. “I know nothing about his writing habits. Maybe he does this all the time. Or it may be that as a prominent Marxist he didn’t want it known that he reads American Renaissance. In any case, what he did is contemptible, and his publisher...should certainly have a word with him.”
― orchestra_hit, Monday, 14 July 2014 01:46 (nine years ago) link
http://www.critical-theory.com/i-nonetheless-deeply-regret-the-incident-zizek-responds-to-plagiarism-allegations/
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Monday, 14 July 2014 01:59 (nine years ago) link
i dunno it seems pretty plausible that his general slovenliness explains pretty much everything
― j., Monday, 14 July 2014 02:47 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, he draws from Wikipedia regularly, so I can readily imagine him cutting and pasting text from email without bothering to see whether the email was quoting or paraphrasing a source.
― one way street, Monday, 14 July 2014 03:07 (nine years ago) link
Not to mention the nearly page-long passage (on The Matrix, I think?) in "On Belief" that he uses twice within the same chapter to introduce two different arguments.....
― one way street, Monday, 14 July 2014 03:09 (nine years ago) link
(On Leibniz and cyberspace, rather, on pages 26 and 52 of On Belief).
― one way street, Monday, 14 July 2014 03:19 (nine years ago) link
lol he plagiarized an anti-Semite. so zizek.
― Mordy, Monday, 14 July 2014 04:23 (nine years ago) link