/lit/ - Literature

>>23392612
Read Zizek
>The grand post-structuralist assumption is that the classic reduction of rhetorical devices to external means which do not concern the signified contents is illusory: the so-called stylistic devices already determine the 'inner' notional contents themselves. Yet it would appear that the post-structuralist poetic style itself - the style of continuous ironic self commentary and self-distance, the way of constantly subverting what one was supposed to say literally - exists only to embellish some basic theoretical propositions. That is why post-structuralist commentaries often produce an effect of 'bad infinity' in the Hegelian sense: an endless quasi-poetical variation on the same theoretical assumption, a variation which does not produce anything new. The problem with deconstruction, then, is not that it renounces a strict theoretical formulation and yields to a flabby poeticism. On the contrary, it is that its position is too 'theoretical' (in the sense of a theory which excludes the truth-dimension; that is, which does not affect the place from which we speak).

>>22372601
>and I understand less than nothing.
Sounds like you got more out of it than you think

>>22339217
>You could also just skip straight to the stuff that's actually correct (Deleuze and Guattiari).
No

>>22199023
>Furthermore, Hegel is NOT a critical thinker: his basic stance is that of reconciliation – not reconciliation as a long-term goal but reconciliation as a fact which confronts us with the unexpected bitter truth of the actualized Ideal. If there is a Hegelian motto, it is something like: find a truth in how things turn wrong! The message of Hegel is not “the spirit of trust” (the title of Robert Brandom’s latest book on Hegel’s Phenomenology) but rather the spirit of distrust – his premise is that every large human project turns wrong and only in this way attests to its truth. The French Revolution wanted universal freedom and climaxed in terror, Communism wanted global emancipation and gave birth to Stalinist terror… Hegel’s lesson is thus a new version of Big Brother’s famous slogan from George Orwell’s 1984 ”freedom is slavery”: when we try to enforce freedom directly, the result is slavery. So whatever Hegel is, he is decidedly not a thinker of a perfect ideal that we approach infinitely.

He is very sneaky but I see through his tricks.
People often ask "What is Slavoj Zizek's point? He talks a lot but what message is he trying to get across?"
Zizek's point is to appeal to a certain type of leftist liberal who is probably a little bit smarter and a little bit edgier than the average leftist liberal, by making jokes about women or jews and so on, to make them feel that they are above the typical woke SJW because they can laugh at these things instead of getting hysterical. In this way, Zizek appeals to this certain type of leftist, and channels them into supporting all those same things anyway (LGBT, feminism, BLM, globalism, transhumanism, etc.). This way they are in practice no different at all from dumb SJWs, and they will never challenge these ideologies because they are content in their feeling of superiority ("Yeah I support all these things but I'm like so above it all man")
You will notice that Zizek sometimes makes a very mild criticism of SJWs or virtue signallers or he might talk about the potential horrors of transhumanism and AI and what not, but he never actually goes against it. His stance is "Yeah there is a flaw here but we still need to do it anyway" He is very much in league with the likes of Yuval Harrari even if he makes half-hearted criticism of these things.
Essentially, Zizek is the Jordan Peterson of the left. Peterson (as he himself even admits) has a goal of appealing to unhappy young white men and channeling them into a lukewarm liberal-conservative ideology, so that they don't go down a more radical right-wing nationalist path instead. Zizek is operating in a similar manner on the leftist side of things.

Det is a nice argument but I heppen to *sniff*, you could schay *sniff*, fucked your mother *sniff* in de name of ,ewh, commoonism *sniff*