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Brain Candy
May 18, 2006

Cithen posted:

he also endorsed trump with the rationale that he would disrupt the consciousness of everyone enough to bring about the end times

and since that clearly failed and people just became more insane i understand him chickening out

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Brain Candy
May 18, 2006

Ardennes posted:

I would say my only real issue with Zizek (probably more than anything because of timing) is him having to couch what he is trying to say in Lacan or post-modern absurdism rather than just spit it out. He lets his actual views slip but it is always a game of him being "provocative" then walking it back into the safety of post-modernism.

I mean I get it, he wants to sell books and exist within the acceptable boundaries of Western media, but it would be great if he could spit it out.

sure this is true to a degree but i find this to be the frustration of people not understanding there's no direct way to some of the more difficult understanding

and i don't mean in the sense of obscurantist bullshit, i mean you have to do it, this is why he tells stories, to engage and provoke, it's to grease the wheels but you have to get end yourself when we're talking about thinking about thinking. or to put it in the hands of a different master

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8

Brain Candy
May 18, 2006

mazzi Chart Czar posted:

God drat!
gently caress the first 30 seconds of that loving video!
Older engineers are loving weird, and that is why their politics are all hosed up.
Bertrand Russel told people "don't become philosophers become engineers."
So all that philosophy bullshit leaked into engineering and the sciences.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFAOXdXZ5TM

That is the poo poo the drove Wittgenstein to say that philosophy should help people or "let the fly out of the jar."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFAOXdXZ5TM&t=107s

that big pile of labels you linked is much less insightful than you seem to think it is

Brain Candy
May 18, 2006

mazzi Chart Czar posted:

You're right that section of the video was big pile of labels.

What is electrical charge?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvX29HPmBEI

a miserable pile of fields!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvX29HPmBEI&t=180s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8&t=368s

Brain Candy
May 18, 2006

Ardennes posted:

The issue is his politics, or rather he had to hide his politics. I would say an example is when he is talking ability the Haitian revolution, he is about to say the Polish starters to “fight for the right side” but he has to stop himself. I think it is changing but certainly it does color his conclusions.

ask anwar al awlaki or his son or his daughter if hiding zizek hiding his politics was wise

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