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What does /lit/ think of Žižek?

>> No.10623024

>>10623016
How do you pronounce his name again?

>> No.10623027

I like watching his videos. Never read any of his books.
Has some interesting things to say, but I don't take him too seriously (i don't know very much about philosophy). Made me think about certain things in nee ways.

>> No.10623029

>>10623016

I could not make out a single coherent argument or statement in Pervert's Guide to Ideology.

>> No.10623032

He's my favourite sniffboi

>> No.10623054

>>10623016
I think, judging from your pic related, that he hasn't slept in decades.

>> No.10623063

>>10623024

zi SNIFF zek

>> No.10623080

>>10623016
He's got a talent for reframing discussion in a nonconventional way and a talent for selling himself. Other than that, I don't think he's said anything truly important.

>> No.10623084

>>10623016
ZE BELIFF THAT, UH "sniff"

>> No.10623136

>>10623024
>>10623027
>>10623029
>>10623032
>>10623054
>>10623063
>>10623080
>>10623084
I meant his books have any of you read any of them?

>> No.10623144

>>10623136
I started reading Sublime Object of Ideology, but brainletted out because I didn't into Marx and Lacan first

>> No.10623149

>>10623136
what's a book?

>> No.10623161

>>10623024
Jee Jack

>> No.10623169

>>10623016
He's a fucking hack like anyone who bases his """"""""analysis"""""""" in psychoanalysis

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>>10623136
i didn't find anything of interest in his books beyond a bunch of wacky, quirky disconnected ideas

haven't read everything by him but Absolute Recoil seemed the most focused book, i mean focused by Zizek standards, which is not much focused at all.

Sublime Object i guess you have to read it if you want to read the guy, the main idea of the book is pretty straightforward if you ignore the 1,000 irrelevant tangents he takes

if you like Sublime, then "For They Know Not What They Do" expands on pretty much the same kind of stuff

>> No.10623183

>>10623169
Can you please expand? Not on zizek himself, but on your thoughs of psychoanalysis.

>> No.10623191

>>10623144
where did you get lost? i remember the chapters in Sublime revolving each one around a separate clear idea, even if he takes a few meaningless tangents going nowhere

at that point he hadn't turned yet into the copy/paste fest of unrelated snippets that his next books would become

>> No.10623194

>>10623182
Is it possible to understand him with no sociological baggage? I mean, I didn't even go through Marx.

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>>10623016
See the resemblance?

>> No.10623213

>>10623024
go to his wikipedia page and listen to how his name is pronounced you scrub
>>10623024
idiot

>> No.10623216

>>10623194
yes, you just may have to read some secondary texts, he doesn't get that deep into Marx in Sublime Object. Lacanian stuff may lose you a bit, you may read some of Bruce Fink's books to familiarize you with it. I personally find Lacan boring and pointless so never had any interest in digging deep into it beyond understanding Zizek's superficial terminology.

>> No.10623220

>>10623136
No, haven't read any of his work yet.
I don't know his name either, tbqh.

>> No.10623245

>>10623216
I guess I will start with him first and try your recommendations when it gets cofusing. Thanks.

>> No.10623266

>>10623216
lacan for me is sincerely unreadable but i have to admit he didn’t write his lectures himself. some concepts i grabbed from people influenced by him seem on spot though. really interesting his takes on narratives and power.

>> No.10623271

>>10623054
that's cause he woke as fuck boi

>> No.10623274

I want him in a conversation with Peterson

>> No.10623279

>>10623274
they would agree on literally anything

>> No.10623281

>>10623191
Honestly I couldn't tell you where I got lost, very early in the book. I'd just gone back to uni, and so had a tonne of other stuff to read, and trying to make my way through Zizek as slowly as I had to in order to understand it just wasn't worth it.

It seemed like it would be a breeze to understand with a little more background on his influences. But then I've also heard people say Zizek reinvents those thinkers so drastically that reading them only helps you understand him to a very limited extent

>> No.10623285

>>10623274
why would you want to hear 2 grandstanders grandstand past each other? they are only fun when they intimidate some lesser beings into submission

>> No.10623287

he's been replaced by peterson as /lit/'s choice of meme-tier intellectual with dubious Freudian offshoot interests

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>>10623287
funny because true

>> No.10623296

he's my favourite right wing author

>> No.10623319

>>10623016
*sniffs* the analyshish

>> No.10623322

>>10623136
I've read Sublime Object of Ideology, Parallax View, Violence, and his Antigone

>> No.10623325

>>10623271
Oh shit

>> No.10623503

>>10623285
Really want to see the chemistry between those two.

>> No.10623517

>>10623503
not sure they speak even the same language

>> No.10623577

Judging by what he has said about women, migrants, and Trump I'd say I don't want anything to do with him.

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>>10623577
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwDrHqNZ9lo

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>>10623577
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5yoqjABeBM

>> No.10623603

>>10623577
>liking Trump
>on lit

>> No.10623651

>>10623603
What!? No! I fucking hate him. Zizek said he would vote for Trump, which is abhorrent.

>> No.10623664

>>10623183
Not who you're responding to, but it's complete unempirical psuedoscience. Of course, being unscientific doesn't necessarily invalidate it from a philosophical standpoint. I haven't read Zizek so I don't know how it is that he uses it, but being a Marxist I'm going to assume he uses Freudian psychoanalysis, which has problems in and of itself. Freudian psychoanalysis is obviously based on the theories of Freud, many of which are just complete nonsense.

>> No.10623684

>>10623651
he tricked you, he can't vote in the us

>> No.10623696

>>10623684
>would

>> No.10623723

>>10623577
He seems pretty reasonably aware of both Trump and the migrant crisis, although I've never heard him speak on women. What's the problem? He realizes that the left is bungling the migrant crisis and that Trump is nothing more than an empty opportunist.

>> No.10623814

>>10623577
idiot neolib

>> No.10624079

>>10623016
Anyone think that Destiny will be the next Zizek? They are doppelgangers:
>huge heads for their massive intellectual prowess
>tiny shoulders and overall body structure
>rationalising capabilities which baffle anyone below 150 IQ
Will Destiny become a post-ironic liberalist God Emperor?

>> No.10624311

>>10624079
What is this post even trying to say? Who's Destiny, what's a 'liberalist', and what does it have to do with Trump?

>> No.10624472

>>10623016
he has a few notable works and dozens and dozens of rehashed books (literally whole passages and pages lifted) that restate the same stuff

>> No.10624604

>>10624079
yes, a guy who spends all his life playing league of legends or arguing with sub-110 iq brainlets and can't be bothered to read any philosophy is on his way to become a philosopher

>> No.10624729

*sniff*

>> No.10624774
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10624774

/ourguy/

>> No.10625082 [DELETED] 

>>10623016
i would buy his books if they weren't so unreasonably expansive and i weren't so broke
i tried youtube videos but it just sounded like incoherent rambling, maybe i'm just a brainlet

>> No.10625111

>>10623016
i would buy his books if they weren't so unreasonably expensive and i weren't so broke
i tried youtube videos but it just sounded like incoherent rambling, maybe i'm just a brainlet

>> No.10625127

>>10624604
He's undefeated against Youtube's best.
>Alt-Right fears him
>Deep Centrists worship him
>the Left pretends he doesn't exist
>the Rothschilds bow to him

>> No.10625150

>>10624311
>doesn't know who Destiny is
Why ask any questions beyond this?

>> No.10625608

>>10625150
Because the whole post sounds retarded. The only people I know named Destiny are black women, and I doubt a black woman is the next Zizek.

>> No.10625614

Is his kung-fu panda review any good?

>> No.10627180

>>10623651
> What!? No!

Get a grip anon, this isn't /New Sincerity General/

>> No.10627189

>>10623016
He's fucking ugly

>> No.10627194

>>10623577
Kill yourself reddit

>> No.10627200

>>10623271
not bad

>> No.10627220

>>10623651
It was actually 78d chess in order to destroy capitalism through acceleration of the material dialectics.

>> No.10627276

>>10623664
Hey Popper go suck a cock
The point of psychoanalysis is explaining things that can't be empircally analysed, the only thing you can see using empirical evidences is the reaction of the being on those concepts, but you can't explain it
Also, Zizek uses lacanian psychoanalysis, which is based on structural linguistics and hegelian epistemology (which is far superior than pure empiricism)

>> No.10627378

>>10627276
>The point of psychoanalysis is explaining things that can't be empircally analysed
Psychoanalysis literally makes up the objects of its enquiry. This wouldn't be a problem if said objects were something actually abstract, like in maths or metaphysics, and not something material like the brain, on which psychoanalysis pretends to have an actual, empirical capacity to analize and cure (while not being rigorous in the slightest). Talking to an analyst isn't different from confessing to a priest.
>Also, Zizek uses lacanian psychoanalysis, which is based on structural linguistics and hegelian epistemology (which is far superior than pure empiricism)
Pure namedropping. Lacanian psychoanalysis is irrelevant in this day and age, and it has been btfo by D&G. Same as structuralism, which is a surpassed paradigm. And hegelian epistemology in the age of Heidegger? top kek.

Remember anon, machines, not metaphors.

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>>10623016
He's hilarious. I love his 'proving the opposite of what you thought' shtick too.

>> No.10627381

>>10625614
It requires a deep Lacanian dialectical analysis to parse and so on and so on

>> No.10627389

>>10627276
>The point of psychoanalysis is explaining things that can't be empircally analysed
its very far from phenomenology, which serves to what you just said. psychoanalisis has so much aprioris that its a whole construction on itself, a fiction basically.

>> No.10627397

>>10623723
What migrant crisis? The crisis is in the countries they're fleeing. It's a political crisis because politicians want to give in to the right who want to basically send the migrants to be killed.
>>10627220
By getting millions of people killed? Yeah, no, doesn't sound like progress to me.

>> No.10627519

>>10627220
i don't know where this meme came from, Hillary was obviously the accelerationist candidate. Trump was a reactionary candidate.

Acceleration is about accelerating global capitalist dynamics, not about doing things that will make local leftists mad like closing borders (not that Trump has done even that)

>> No.10627529

>>10627378
>Lacanian psychoanalysis is irrelevant in this day and age, and it has been btfo by D&G.
My God, people unironically praise Deleuze
>And hegelian epistemology in the age of Heidegger?
Yeah of course, that nigger that rejects metaphysics and try to "change" for ontology but in the end it is just empty anthropology

>> No.10627531

>>10627519
>Acceleration is about accelerating global capitalist dynamics

GOP tax plan is about as accelerationist as possible, the next crash is going to get incredibly ugly

>> No.10627534

>>10627529
I'm not gonna discuss this with a racist sorry.

>> No.10627538

>>10627389
It's not far from phenomenology, it studies the relation of the being with phenomenological stucture, what it does is that psychoanalysis doesnt use phenomenology as a way of analysing but something to analyse
That what makes Lacan great

>> No.10627540

>>10627519
You don't understand.
Trump is going to dialectically reinforce his opposite party by being a fucking moron.

>> No.10627545

>>10627534
Kek

>> No.10627551

>>10627529
>My God, people unironically praise Deleuze
Yeah but psychoanalysis is irrelevant anyway.

>> No.10627588

>>10623287
>/lit/ went from Lacan to Jung
was it a downgrade?

>> No.10627592

>>10627551
Dude psychoanalysis and its emphasis on sex is everywhere. Sex and genre is like the prevalent political discourse these days.

>> No.10627618

>>10627531
That's not how the economy works moron

>> No.10627622

>>10627397
If you think Jordan or Turkish isn't suffering a real crisis from the overload of migrants into their borders you are letting your heart overload your brain

>> No.10627627

>>10627534
(you)

>> No.10627636

>>10627397
Get the fuck off my board

>> No.10627655

>>10627622
But no one cares about those shitholes

>> No.10627663

>>10627655
Hey Jordan is a cool country

>> No.10627671

>>10627588
Yes

>> No.10627677

>>10627622
What crisis? They're asylum seekers. The countries that welcome them will benefit economically, and most of them will leave as soon as they can.

>> No.10627691

>>10627618

lmfao

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>>10627677
>The countries that welcome them will benefit economically, and most of them will leave as soon as they can.

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>>10628993
education cannot wait though

>> No.10629018

>>10623016
What is a Slavoj? Nothing but a miserable pile of ticks and sniffles.

>> No.10629037

>>10629018
sounds like something he would say, are you him?

>> No.10629049

why are far-leftists always genetic failures?
How come there are no chads that promote marx?

>> No.10629052

His much-hyped for the wrong reasons. Several decades after his death he will be rediscovered and appreciated for the right reasons.

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>>10629049
>there are no chads that promote marx
Wrong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Clouscard

>> No.10629095

>>10629077
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Clouscard
>chad
Holy shit man if you think that is Chad than you are genuienly proving my point

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>>10627618
>Supply side economists
>Telling anybody else they don't understand economy

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>>10628993
>The countries that welcome them will benefit economically
>Influx of cheap labor with weak protections and no political representation
Yeah the bosses are gonna HATE that

>> No.10629163

>>10629095
He was a turbochad in his youth. He probably fucked your mom as well.

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>>10629159
>haha lets import tons of culturally antagonistic unskilled labor as the age of automation is about to begin so that we can drive down wages for our native workers with the hope that one day the people who can barely speak our language will abandon their old ways and become masters of law and medicine

>> No.10629190

>>10623024
You know how when you pronounce names like 'John' or 'Jack' there's a bit of resistance in the pronounciation of the 'J', like a soft 'd'? Take that out and pronouce Jijek.

>> No.10629220

>>10627519
>not about doing things that will make local leftists mad like closing borders
And filling his presidency with corporate overlords isn't?

>> No.10629230

>>10629220
that's just business as usual

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>>10629230
And the magic of Trump is he is making the more obscure or ignored flaws of the system blisteringly obvious.

>> No.10629275

>>10629220
you know that Wall Street unironically finger picked most of Obama's cabinet? not saying it's any different for Trump, just that this is nothing new

>> No.10629280

>>10629257
Yeah he kind of brought the whole "leftists importing nonwhites who will overwhelmingly vote only for them" into the national consciousness.

>>10629275
Eh he's a reactionary from the accelerationist perspective in the sense that he's slowed demographic change and temporarily halted the expansion of free trade and common market agreements, whereas Clinton would escalate both.

>> No.10629298

>>10629275
Yes and the trouble with previous presidents is they can coast by on their charm, image and charisma. Trump has neither of those outside of his fanbase. When future presidents try to do that shit, all the masses need to know is that Trump did it too to be mad. Essentially he has made regular terrible presidency moves looks more toxic

>>10629280
People were already grumbling about that before Trump

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>>10629173
>that feeling when the Left is so inert that you have to vote for crazy ethnonationalists to promote worker's rights and the abandonment of neoliberalism
New Communist International when?

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>>10629302
>kills off its Left far more than any other country
>now laments its ineffectiveness
Reap what you sow

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10629332

>>10629302
Come home, red flag

>> No.10629335

>>10628993
Man, you totally KILLED him with that reaction image. You are the undisputed winner of this argument.

>> No.10629390

>>10629335
come on, smug anime girls are a legitimate form of discourse

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>>10629335
>Man, you totally KILLED him with that reaction image. You are the undisputed winner of this argument.

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>>10624774
Zizek is fun, but the actual /ourguy/ is pic related.

>> No.10630053

>>10629335
>and most of them will leave as soon as they can.
>and most of them will leave as soon as they can.
>and most of them will leave as soon as they can.
How dumb do you have to be to believe this?
>yep better go back to syria where everything is fucked and I'll have 1% of my current salary
>yep better go back to iran where I'll be persecuted for my beliefs and earn 10% of my current salary
>yep better go back to libya where i'll be kidnapped by jihadists and ransomed for 1000% of my current salary

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>>10629987

>> No.10630502

>>10623024
Why is this board 99% burgerlands?

>> No.10630546

>>10627220
>>10627397
>doesn't sound like progress to me
It doesn't change the fact that this is what the actual motive behind his statement was, which he's said fairly clearly in a rather not-78d chess fashion. The claim is that even if more people suffer over the next four years, it should be better over the next twenty years. I wouldn't call him right winged for that. I don't agree with it either, but at the same time I do get a kick out of seeing right winged highschool friends and friend's-parents asking where their meals on wheels went. In the long run it'll be beneficial in terms of voting patterns. Maybe not enough to justify Zizek's claim, but still.