The "plaigiarism" controversy seems overblown. The disputed passages are just summaries of other books, it's not like he plagiarized a white supremacist's ideas as the headlines suggest
― Treeship, Thursday, 7 August 2014 02:49 (nine years ago) link
it's been fun seeing academic types be all 'gotcha! the p-word!!!!' and just look like goobers tho
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 7 August 2014 03:06 (nine years ago) link
as a plagiarism controversy it's pretty dumb but i'm all for calling out his working methods. big surprise that producing like half a million words a year results in shoddy, repetitive work.
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 7 August 2014 03:20 (nine years ago) link
huge surprise hence the necessary calling out?
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 7 August 2014 03:28 (nine years ago) link
the more people point out that he produces a lot of useless shit the more chance there is of him taking any heed and ever producing anything of worth again. maybe.
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 7 August 2014 03:37 (nine years ago) link
but then it's kinda just the plight of every celeb academic. he just amplifies it.
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 7 August 2014 03:38 (nine years ago) link
I was reading an older book ("contingency, hegemony, solidarity") and his contributions are very notable for their repetitiveness -- not only within the book but within his whole body of work. he's a very formulaic writer and I think there's rapidly diminishing returns with his stuff.
― ryan, Thursday, 7 August 2014 11:42 (nine years ago) link
or what merdeyeux said
he has a lot of books that have come out and will come out this year
― markers, Thursday, 7 August 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
he's definitely the philosopher i've read the most of at this point
― markers, Thursday, 7 August 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/rolling-underground-tunnels.html
"Signed by Slavoj Žižek and a friend" - whatever that means. it doesn't read like his voice at all.
― Mordy, Monday, 25 August 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
ht treesh: http://www.theguardian.com/books/live/2014/oct/06/slavoj-zizek-webchat-absolute-recoil
But this is not all the truth. There are multiple signs that something new is possible. Let me conclude with one example. Free downloading. Aren't we almost entering communism there? Even DVDs are disappearing. I think capitalism will not be able to integrate so-called intellectual property. Intellectual achievements are in their very nature communists, able to circulate freely. And this free availability of products is already opening up a non-capitalist space, even if it is the product of the most advanced capitalism. Again, just look for the signs. There are signs of an alternative. We just have to be patient and wait. We should act, but not in the old Marxist way that we are instruments of higher historical necessity. We should fight all our struggles, against sexism here, racism there, and so on. But we should nonetheless keep open a sense of risk. There is always a mystery in political activity. You think you are engaged in a big project and nothing comes out of it. But often you make just a small demand, and if you insist on it, everything changes. We cannot master in advance the consequences of our acts. We should act and keep our mind open.So let me finish with a militaristic phrase from Napoleon: on attack, then we shall see. That should be our motto.
So let me finish with a militaristic phrase from Napoleon: on attack, then we shall see. That should be our motto.
― Mordy, Saturday, 25 October 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/12390885_1667285013527796_4322619636805548179_n.jpg?oh=8db71a04a918e42fe1e2ce16b6724362&oe=56D6A09D
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Friday, 25 December 2015 00:28 (eight years ago) link
https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/the-syndication-of-plagiarism-sz-for-nicole-pepperell/
― flopson, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 14:15 (eight years ago) link
I lol'd
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14022188_10157232549005304_7999281079063552365_n.jpg?oh=944cd564e44e01afa10a3bc95d87fa5f&oe=58141E77
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 22 August 2016 16:17 (seven years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/10/slavoj-zizek-we-are-all-basically-evil-egotistical-disgustingI hate politically correct arrogance. With black friends, in contrast to politically correct white guys, I establish real contact. How? Through dirty stories, dirty jokes. When you visit a foreign country, you play PC games about your interesting food or music, but how do you become really friendly? You exchange a small obscenity.
Yes humour is important for bonding, no it doesn't have to be dick jokes. I wonder if over-generalising from personal experience is humanity's worst trait (after selfishness, xenophobia, and a bottomless capacity for violence).
― the year of diving languorously (ledge), Sunday, 11 December 2016 14:16 (seven years ago) link
Also fun: the accelerationist gets accelerated every time he touches his face
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AIWUMkKZhus
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIWUMkKZhus
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSfCzWmVQAEJSc8.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 1 January 2018 23:37 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSfDp4CWsAAtxNv.jpg
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 00:00 (six years ago) link
slavojpingbag
― mark s, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 00:03 (six years ago) link
Oh no: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrSUGgfM4Q4
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 11 March 2018 09:08 (six years ago) link
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QwasyxTf3q0/VgU-uPebGeI/AAAAAAAAFVM/NmFobBNrk6A/s1600/Zizek-wedding-0002.jpg
― calzino, Sunday, 24 March 2019 10:06 (five years ago) link
Everyone evil n egotistical: that's why I love Zizek (and Haneke). Both have a deep rooted belief that we're not that good.
― nathom, Sunday, 24 March 2019 10:37 (five years ago) link
the fabled backstory here -- true or not who can say! -- is that he looks as if he's beaten up bcz he had been, by the brothers of the bride when sz tried to weasel out of the wedding :D
enjoy yr symptom!
― mark s, Sunday, 24 March 2019 10:42 (five years ago) link
he is fumbling in his pocket with a concealed taser.
― calzino, Sunday, 24 March 2019 10:49 (five years ago) link
Not sure how an in-law-to-be beatdown is gonna convince you to *go thru* with a wedding
― Helel Cool J (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 March 2019 10:55 (five years ago) link
i think it also involved being frogmarched to the altar
― mark s, Sunday, 24 March 2019 11:07 (five years ago) link
no shotgun no credibility
― Helel Cool J (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 March 2019 11:08 (five years ago) link
we are in agreement tbh
― mark s, Sunday, 24 March 2019 11:27 (five years ago) link
Feels like they watched Game of Thrones. Lol
― nathom, Sunday, 24 March 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
in an alternate universe zizek plays detective crockett in miami vice
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Sunday, 24 March 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link
A local linguist is found dead in a puddle of black ooze. Suspicion falls on Midsomer Stanton’s ice cream van driver, angry that all-encompassing whiteness might threaten the world ending with a whimper rather than a bang.— Midsomer Murders Bot (@midsomerplots) March 18, 2019
― mark s, Sunday, 24 March 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link
Important update
mesmerized by this video of slavoj žižek absolutely demolishing two hot dogs pic.twitter.com/grNOIPfEQn— Nick Usen (@nickusen) April 16, 2019
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 18 April 2019 12:31 (five years ago) link
So good..
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 April 2019 12:40 (five years ago) link
So stoked to watch this
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 April 2019 05:14 (five years ago) link
Not going to watch this (my masochism has limits). Sounds like they were having two monologues side by side rather than a debate.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 20 April 2019 07:29 (five years ago) link
Live debate is bullshit
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 20 April 2019 07:31 (five years ago) link
lest we forget
remember in 2011 when the white radical left lined up to denounce the black riot as feral, incoherent, mindless? here’s Zizek and David Harvey back then pic.twitter.com/ZJVxWq5r5e— hannah (@nanpansky) June 4, 2020
― hip posts without flaggadocio (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 June 2020 11:35 (three years ago) link
I had a feeling Owen Jones was often bad back then but couldn't quite remember why, but knew it was more than just his early hostility to Corbynism and his terrible books!
― calzino, Thursday, 4 June 2020 12:39 (three years ago) link
whenever he's actually deigned to take a concrete position on something specific it's always been some basic liberal and/or conservative bullshit, with marxist/hegelian rhetoric thrown in to appease those who still want to believe he's a revolutionary. "no message to deliver" fuck off back to the academy you pearl clutching hack
these celebrity leftists always turn out like this, he & chomsky are way more similar than different in this regard
― 1312 (Left), Thursday, 4 June 2020 13:18 (three years ago) link
this guy has always had seriously dodgy views on race (as well as gender, sexuality etc) which "the white radical left" has been way too keen on obfuscating/excusing
― 1312 (Left), Thursday, 4 June 2020 13:22 (three years ago) link
motherfuck him and hegel
Zizek. Apparently the new frontier of emancipatory philosophy is “indigenous people couldn’t understand their genocide as being wrong without western theory.” Impressive! pic.twitter.com/6chPxe3aCH— Ben Miller (@benwritesthings) July 4, 2020
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Saturday, 4 July 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
celebrity leftist here casually writing liberal-fascist defend-western-values screeds for russian state media
fox news levels of empathy for the police here
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/493408-white-racism-fight-guilty/amp/
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Saturday, 4 July 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
happy international men's day pic.twitter.com/no1MZGamwU— zo (@gramscifancam) November 19, 2020
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 19 November 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
been laughing at this for 3 days pic.twitter.com/e2XtNpKX46— the thicc husband & father (@lukeisamazing) February 10, 2021
― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 11 February 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
just saw him at a cafe in Bloomsbury, he was looking unusually dapper / kempt
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 7 July 2022 11:57 (one year ago) link
get ready for your new Chief Adviser
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 7 July 2022 13:03 (one year ago) link