Slavoj Zizek on Occupy Wall Street: a moving speech. Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, spoke at Zuccotti Park, where the historic Occupy Wall Street events are currently unfolding.
He spoke Saturday, October 8, 2011. Filmed by Chris Spannos. Length 18 min. 39 sec. This beautiful speech is well worth listening to, or reading, as the transcript is below. Watch the video: Slavoj Zizek: “We Are The Awakening” – Occupy Wall Street Talk from The New Significance on Vimeo. Transcript of Slavoj Zizek: “They are saying we are all losers, but the true losers are down there on Wall Street. We are not destroying anything.
In mid-April 2011, the Chinese government prohibited on TV, films, and novels all stories that contain alternate reality or time travel. So what are we doing here? There is a danger. Remember. We are not Communists if Communism means a system which collapsed in 1990. What do we perceive today as possible? Communism failed absolutely, but the problems of the commons are here. Zizek on the Arabian Revolution. VersoBooks.com. Views: Corporate Rule of Cyberspace. Part of the global push towards the privatization of the "general intellect" is the recent trend in the organization of cyberspace towards so-called "cloud computing.
" Little more than a decade ago, a computer was a big box on one's desk, and downloading was done with floppy disks and USB sticks. Today, we no longer need such cumbersome individual computers, since cloud computing is Internet-based, i.e., software and information are provided to computers or smartphones on demand, in the guise of web-based tools or applications that users can access and use through browsers as if they were programs installed on their own computer. In this way, we can access information from wherever we are in the world, on any computer, with smartphones literally putting this access into our pocket. This wonderful new world, however, represents only one side of the story, which as a whole reads like the well-known doctor joke: "first the good news, then the bad news.
" Zizek: Is Charity Immoral? Zizek on the awakening of a new left in Europe. This is the most precious lesson: We need to break out of this cycle where our choices are either pro-western liberals or religious fundamentalism Excerpted from an interesting conversation of the Greek Left Review with Slavoj Zizek and prof.
Costas Douzinas. The second quote refers to Zizek’s critique of both localist and Negrian optimism as regard to social change opportunities. ” Slavoj Zizek emphasized that social mobilization and the emergence of European solidarity among workers is the only way to break out of the vicious cycle that neoliberal technocrats and religious fundamentalists are driving the continent. GLR: Today we’re witnessing in Britain the largest march since the Iraqi war. SZ. ?? GLR While Europe is reviving and rediscovering radicalism we have revolts all over the Middle East. SZ. Search Results » zizek. Zizek’s critique of Chomsky Posted on Sunday, July 28th, 2013 Some points related to Chomsky’s position on the role of ‘ideology’: (background to the controversy and source of the material here) Slavoj Žižek: “His idea is today that cynicism of those in power is so open that we don’t need any critique of ideology, you reach symptomatically between the lines, everything is cynically openly admitted. […] Read the rest of this post...
Posted in P2P Epistemology, Politics | No Comments » Zizek’s critique of pure horizontalism Posted on Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 Let Zizek make you think: Local self-organisation cannot replace the need for a strong state-civic infrastructure and “large regulatory mechanisms”. Read the rest of this post... Posted in Conferences, P2P Governance, P2P Hierarchy Theory, P2P Theory, Politics, Videos | No Comments » Essay of the Day: A critique of the glorification of violence by Zizek Posted on Thursday, September 13th, 2012 Read the rest of this post...