flopson, what are the names of some of those textbooks? they sound interesting.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, July 29, 2013 8:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i've really enjoyed armstrong basic topology, munkres topology, kolmogorov intro to theory of functions and functional analysis, gouvea p-adic numbers, needham visual complex analysis. you need a pretty solid foundation of algebra & analysis to read any of those though, like the equivalent of a standard first year course. also a really fun thing to read is proofs from the book
― flopson, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 19:20 (ten years ago) link
http://critical-theory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/perverts-guide-to-ideology.jpg
― j., Thursday, 1 August 2013 07:44 (ten years ago) link
i don't even know what these 104 new answers are about, i just wanna post this https://twitter.com/zizek_ebooks/status/362997937116160000
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 1 August 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
thanks for the list!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 1 August 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
zizek ebooks is prob one of my favorite feeds tbh
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 1 August 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
np! (xp)
― flopson, Thursday, 1 August 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
nobody's saying you can't critique z. b/c you haven't read his heavier tomes. what i was responding to wasn't the fact that you were critiquing him, but the fact that a major point of your critique was that you saw in zizek a lot of hot air and posturing without substance, and i'm saying, well, there are these books of his where, um, i do think there's a lot of substance.
r. pippin sez 'srs book is srs', writes ginormous review to demonstrate
http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/back-to-hegel
― j., Saturday, 3 August 2013 10:37 (ten years ago) link
interesting review. funny how it seems Zizek has sorta come around to Sartre's notion of consciousness as a "hole in Being."
― ryan, Saturday, 3 August 2013 15:52 (ten years ago) link
Hasn't he been saying something along those lines since at least Tarrying With The Negative?
― Tim F, Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:08 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/angstravaganza/status/381110626632085504
― opie dead eyed piece of shit (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 15:21 (ten years ago) link
damn
― j., Tuesday, 24 September 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link
www.youtube.com/embed/bRTdDyXM3VM
― Mordy , Tuesday, 1 October 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
http://critical-theory.com/zizek-vice/
― Mordy , Sunday, 6 October 2013 05:37 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/11/who-responsible-us-shutdown-2008-meltdown-slavoj-zizek
― Mordy , Friday, 11 October 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
They reject the concept of fruit
― wmlynch, Friday, 11 October 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
uh he's doing a lot of interviews
― markers, Monday, 14 October 2013 07:45 (ten years ago) link
i just found a bunch more
shocking for a man who seems pretty prominent most of the time and also has a movie out lol
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 14 October 2013 10:35 (ten years ago) link
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/06/mandelas-socialist-failure/
― Mordy , Monday, 9 December 2013 05:21 (ten years ago) link
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.
This article was amended on 16 December 2013 to comply with our editorial guidelines
― 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 (ten years ago) link
done
― mattresslessness, Monday, 2 June 2014 22:32 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Mordy: did he ask for papers though?
― ryan, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:38 (ten years ago) link
Ironically, she sounds like a boring idiot.
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:39 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
helen vendler came to my masters program once and tough a class. that is my one brush with academic fame.