hard-boiled

October 14th 2011

Slavoj Zizek @ Occupy Wall Street

Posted at 9:23am and tagged with: zizek, OWS,.

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[W]hen you criticize capitalism, don’t allow yourselves to be blackmailed that you are against democracy. The marriage between democracy and capitalism is over.

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September 1st 2011

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Slavoj Žižek · Shoplifters of the World Unite · LRB 19 August 2011

You get a great social commentary about a terrible situation and a Smiths/Marx reference right in the title. What more can you ask for?

(Source: lrb.co.uk)

Posted at 12:06pm and tagged with: zizek, a smiths reference, riots,.

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Zygmunt Bauman characterised the riots as acts of ‘defective and disqualified consumers’: more than anything else, they were a manifestation of a consumerist desire violently enacted when unable to realise itself in the ‘proper’ way – by shopping. As such, they also contain a moment of genuine protest, in the form of an ironic response to consumerist ideology: ‘You call on us to consume while simultaneously depriving us of the means to do it properly – so here we are doing it the only way we can!’

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February 22nd 2011

OMFNG

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theladylaurasaurus:

Thank you to @bmelts for sharing this glory.

This is how I feel when I have to deal with certain people.

(Source: lau-ra-sau-rus)

Posted at 12:19pm and tagged with: blink, zizek,.

May 20th 2010

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Žižek, Hegel, Palin | The Atlantic Wire

Posted at 6:39pm and tagged with: zizek, palin, the atlantic,.

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She has a “castrating” effect on her male opponents not by way of being more manly than them, but by using the ultimate feminine weapon, the sarcastic put-down of male authority — she knows that male “phallic” authority is a posture, a semblance to be exploited and mocked. Recall how she mocked Obama as a “community organizer,” exploiting the fact that there was something sterile in Obama’s physical appearance, with his diluted black skin, slender features, and big ears. Here we have “post-feminist” femininity without a complex, uniting the features of mother, prim teacher (glasses, hair in a bun), public person, and, implicitly, sex object, proudly displaying the “first dude” as a phallic toy. The message is that she “has it all” — and that, to add insult to injury, it was a Republican woman who had realized this Left-liberal dream…No wonder that the Palin effect is one of false liberation: drill, baby, drill!

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January 27th 2010

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A joke, as told by Zizek.

I laughed for minutes.

Posted at 10:41am and tagged with: zizek,.

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Three friends are having a drink at a bar; the first one says: “A horrible thing happened to me. At my travel agency, I wanted to say ‘A ticket to Pittsburgh!,’ and I said, ‘A picket to Tittsburgh!’” The second one replies: “Thats’s nothing. At breakfast, I wanted to say to my wife, ‘Could you pass me the sugar, honey?,’ and what I said was, ‘You dirty bitch, you ruined my entire life!’” The third one concludes: “Wait till you hear what happened to me. After gathering my courage all night, I decided to say to my wife at breakfast exactly what you said to yours, and I ended up saying, ‘Could you pass me the sugar, honey?’

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