This is the thread where we talk about Slavoj Zizek...

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.

huge surprise hence the necessary calling out?

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.

but then it's kinda just the plight of every celeb academic. he just amplifies it.

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.

or what merdeyeux said

he has a lot of books that have come out and will come out this year

he's definitely the philosopher i've read the most of at this point

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.

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.

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/12390885_1667285013527796_4322619636805548179_n.jpg?oh=8db71a04a918e42fe1e2ce16b6724362&oe=56D6A09D

https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/the-syndication-of-plagiarism-sz-for-nicole-pepperell/

I lol'd

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14022188_10157232549005304_7999281079063552365_n.jpg?oh=944cd564e44e01afa10a3bc95d87fa5f&oe=58141E77

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/10/slavoj-zizek-we-are-all-basically-evil-egotistical-disgusting
I 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).

Also fun: the accelerationist gets accelerated every time he touches his face

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AIWUMkKZhus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIWUMkKZhus

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSfCzWmVQAEJSc8.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSfDp4CWsAAtxNv.jpg

slavojpingbag

Oh no: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrSUGgfM4Q4

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QwasyxTf3q0/VgU-uPebGeI/AAAAAAAAFVM/NmFobBNrk6A/s1600/Zizek-wedding-0002.jpg

Everyone evil n egotistical: that's why I love Zizek (and Haneke). Both have a deep rooted belief that we're not that good.

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!

he is fumbling in his pocket with a concealed taser.

Not sure how an in-law-to-be beatdown is gonna convince you to *go thru* with a wedding

i think it also involved being frogmarched to the altar

no shotgun no credibility

we are in agreement tbh

Feels like they watched Game of Thrones. Lol

in an alternate universe zizek plays detective crockett in miami vice

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

Important update

mesmerized by this video of slavoj žižek absolutely demolishing two hot dogs pic.twitter.com/grNOIPfEQn

— Nick Usen (@nickusen) April 16, 2019

So good..

So stoked to watch this

Not going to watch this (my masochism has limits). Sounds like they were having two monologues side by side rather than a debate.

Live debate is bullshit

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

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!

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

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

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

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/

happy international men's day pic.twitter.com/no1MZGamwU

— zo (@gramscifancam) November 19, 2020

been laughing at this for 3 days pic.twitter.com/e2XtNpKX46

— the thicc husband & father (@lukeisamazing) February 10, 2021

just saw him at a cafe in Bloomsbury, he was looking unusually dapper / kempt

get ready for your new Chief Adviser