Debate filosófico: Desmontando a Zizek. Una cosa se le ha de reconocer a Zizek: ha comprendido perfectamente el funcionamiento del “capitalismo cultural” de nuestra época. Sabe que la autoridad que ayer hacía respetable al intelectual en el espacio público, que se basaba en el reconocimiento científico, filosófico o artístico de su obra por parte de sus pares, ha desaparecido porque justamente esas instituciones legitimadoras están en trance de demolición. Podría haber escrito novelas o haber hecho películas para llegar a las masas, pero sabe que también el cine y la literatura han perdido sus condiciones de influencia social. Podría haberse unido a un partido político, pero se dio cuenta de que se trataba de otra institución obsoleta. Una cosa se le ha de reconocer a Zizek: ha comprendido perfectamente el funcionamiento del “capitalismo cultural” de nuestra época Se percató de que tenía más éxito si decía que el problema de Hitler es que no fue lo suficientemente violento o si se declaraba partidario de Trump.
Žižek on Ghosts. Professor of the Year, “If You Don’t Give Me Any of Your Shitty Papers You Get an A” | Critical-Theory.com. Slavoj Zizek fans and haters can finally agree on something: he probably doesn’t like any of you. Zizek has always been vocal about his general disdain for students and humanity writ large. He once admitted in 2008 that seeing stupid people happy makes him depressed, before describing teaching as the worst job he has ever had. “I hate students,” he said, “they are (as all people) mostly stupid and boring.
In a recent interview at this year’s Zizek Conference in Ohio, Zizek talked about his personal life before delving into his thoughts on teaching. “I hate giving classes,” Zizek said, citing office hours and grading papers as his two biggest peeves. “I did teach a class here [at the University of Cincinnati] and all of the grading was pure bluff,” he continues. But it’s office hours that are the main reason he does not want to teach. “I can’t imagine a worse experience than some idiot comes there and starts to ask you questions, which is still tolerable. “I don’t care,” he continued. Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange: our new heroes | Slavoj Žižek. We all remember President Obama's smiling face, full of hope and trust, in his first campaign: "Yes, we can!
" – we can get rid of the cynicism of the Bush era and bring justice and welfare to the American people. Now that the US continues its covert operations and expands its intelligence network, spying even on its allies, we can imagine protesters shouting at Obama: "How can you use drones for killing? How can you spy even on our allies? " Obama murmurs with a mockingly evil smile: "Yes, we can. " But simple personalisation misses the point: the threat to freedom disclosed by whistleblowers has deeper, systemic roots. His acts provided a factual foundation to our suspicions of being monitored and controlled – their lesson is global, reaching far beyond the standard US-bashing. Back in 1843, the young Karl Marx claimed that the German ancien regime "only imagines that it believes in itself and demands that the world should imagine the same thing".
Zero Dark Thirty: Hollywood's gift to American power | Slavoj Žižek. Here is how, in a letter to the LA Times, Kathryn Bigelow justified Zero Dark Thirty's depicting of the torture methods used by government agents to catch and kill Osama bin Laden: "Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane practices, no author could write about them, and no filmmaker could delve into the thorny subjects of our time. " Really? One doesn't need to be a moralist, or naive about the urgencies of fighting terrorist attacks, to think that torturing a human being is in itself something so profoundly shattering that to depict it neutrally – ie to neutralise this shattering dimension – is already a kind of endorsement.
Imagine a documentary that depicted the Holocaust in a cool, disinterested way as a big industrial-logistic operation, focusing on the technical problems involved (transport, disposal of the bodies, preventing panic among the prisoners to be gassed). Torture saves lives? Slavoj Žižek: Dont worry, the catastrophy will arrive! « Kolektivi Materializmi Dialektik. The last week of August Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar visited Russia with a series of lectures and seminars. They were invited by »Chto Delat? « (»What is to be done? «), the group of Russian intellectuals and artists, who combain in their practice theory, art and political activism. This visit was organized as a summer educational program, open for everyone, and produced a lot of interest and extremely heated debates. Oxana Timofeeva, a part of »Chto Delat? « and one of the organizers of this educational program, asked Slavoj Žižek for questions, seemingly from withing Russian current political context.
O.T. S.Ž. Progressive liberals today often complain that they would like to join a “revolution” (a more radical emancipatory political movement), but no matter how desperately they search for it, they just “don’t see it” (they don’t see anywhere in the social space a political agent with a will and strength to seriously engage in such activity). O.T. S.Ž. O.T. S.Ž. The Guardian on Facebook.