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Anonymous Thu Mar 24 16:46:59 2016 No.7847354 [Reply] [Original]

I'm thinking of reading some of Žižek's works. Are they any good or will they be full of shitty jokes and anecdotes about his leftist friends and his conscription time like his speeches and lectures? Anything interesting you can recommend?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 16:56:05 2016 No.7847389 why would you bother reading a leftist

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 16:57:53 2016 No.7847398 >>7847354 Always start with his masterpiece "The sublime object of Ideology". It's awesome. He's awesome. Prepare to break your head about Lacan and Hegel. He's intro to the book is harder than the next 100 pages.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 16:57:59 2016 No.7847399 read the sublime object of ideology. all of his work is more or less the same as that. honestly though, if you understand how ideology operates and understand the lacanian triptych of psychoanalysis, you don't really need to read him.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 16:58:13 2016 No.7847400 Can someone even explain to me how Zizek even came to be? Like how he got famous or was discovered? Is it just because he started as a meme because of his coke twitches and then people started reading what he had to say?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 17:01:19 2016 No.7847409 >>7847400 he ran for president in his country back in the 90s n everything, isnt just a meme

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 17:03:12 2016 No.7847412 >>7847400 he was popular before 4chan made him into a meme. the meme is generally accredited to his general hyperactive disposition and nihilistic outlook on life.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 17:04:11 2016 No.7847418 >>7847400 >hi i am an American

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 17:06:56 2016 No.7847426 >>7847409 >>7847412 Cool. Thanks. >>7847418 Yep. You got me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 17:06:59 2016 No.7847427 >>7847400 >in my country, the USA, people usually only get famous because a camera is pointed at them enough because their funny or interesting to look at.

Anonymous Thu Mar 24 17:07:52 2016 No.7847430

>>7847400

i'm on the right and love reading him. I think I first saw him on british television when "First as Tragedy..." came out

He's entertaining, I suppose. His writing is more observational comedy than philosophy plus there are the references to film, tv, popular music and so on *sniffs*

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 17:16:21 2016 No.7847448 I've never really read any philosophy apart from Darwin's Worms and Straw Dogs. Can I start with The Sublime Object Of Ideology? > In terms of phil I am a pleb

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 24 17:18:44 2016 No.7847452 >>7847427 > Not knowing the distinction between their and they're I'm sorry, you must be looking for >>>/illit/

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 25 03:07:44 2016 No.7849245 cant listen to zizek or chomsky. god sniffing, and "and, eh", "the eh"

Anonymous Fri Mar 25 04:29:42 2016 No.7849372
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>>7847354

Don't fall for the "Sublime object of ideology" meme unless you've actually read Hegel, Marx and Lacan.

Start with The Parallax View; his main work and easier to read than tSOoI, this is basically where he outlines his system of analysis.

How to Read Lacan is also good for a more in-depth look at Lacan from Zizek's perspective.

After you have familiarized yourself with his thought and vocabulary read some of his "analysis" books; "The Sublime Object of Ideology", "Living in the End Times" and "Welcome to the Desert of the Real are all good.

IMO Zizeks best work is in his shorter essays rather than his published books: I liked his Essay about Object Oriented Ontology and Mao Zedong, they are very easy to read and you can do so in a couple of hours if your interested in them.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 25 04:44:12 2016 No.7849398 >>7849372 This tbqh

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 25 04:47:33 2016 No.7849402 >>7847452 showing your new real hard famalam

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 25 06:29:04 2016 No.7849502 >>7847398 >>7847399 >>7849372 Thanks for the advice, family.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 25 07:07:26 2016 No.7849547 >>7849372 Tell me about this essay on Mao, Anon

Anonymous Fri Mar 25 07:29:38 2016 No.7849572

>>7849547

Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
>http://www.lacan.com/zizmaozedong.htm

Zizek is good at providing an intellectually honest look into the failings of the past communist projects and particularly the theoretical works that lay beneath them.

In the Essay he mainly deals with Mao's "On Contradiction" and, what Zizek views, the fundamental errors of Mao's dialectics.

He did a similar piece toward Stalin, though it isn't an essay, thats IMO very good; its a collaboration with a non-leftist historian so its quite rooted in fairly objective historical analysis as a bonus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU1novFkMRI

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 25 07:44:09 2016 No.7849586 >>7849547 >>7849572 Slavoj Žižek – Objects, Objects Everywhere: >http://mariborchan.si/text/articles/slavoj-zizek/objects-objects-everywhere/ Is the one about OOO and the Specreal guys that I also mentioned.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 25 07:48:54 2016 No.7849590 Requesting more of these Zizek memes, they always make me chuckle.

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>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 25 08:01:37 2016 No.7849604 >>7847400 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN_goH6Iz5I ZLAZLOJ L I Z L E K

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>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 25 08:16:17 2016 No.7849620 >>7849615 Perfect, thanks for all.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 25 08:49:13 2016 No.7849674 >>7849615 Thanks

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