/lit/ - Literature

>>4508648

An anarcho-syndicalist American analytic philosopher and linguistics professor was teaching a class on Bertrand Russell, known logician.
”Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Russell as the most influential philosopher of the 20th century, even more influential than Jacques Derrida or any other continental philosopher!”
At this moment, a brave, psycho-analytic, Hegelian Marxist philosopher and cultural critic boldy stood up and tugged at his collar.
”My god, pure ideology! How can you ignore the work of Lacan and the Frankfurt School and so on and so on, like that? ”
The arrogant professor smirked quite Jewishly and smugly replied “Continental philosophy cloaks trvialities in fancy language and uses the scientific-sounding term 'theory' to describe propositions that could never be tested empirically. ”
”Wrong. If empricism is so important, as you would say, then how come you were so empirically wrong on the Khmer Rouge and Cambodia, and so on and so on?”
The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus . He stormed out of the room crying those unironic empirically verified crocodile tears.
There is no doubt that at this point our professor, Noam Chomsky, wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than an outdated linguist and blindly analytic philosopher. He wished so much that he had an argument to save himself from embarrassment, but he himself had advocated for truth derived from empirical investigation!
The students applauded and all dropped out to transfer into the École Normale Supérieure that day and accepted French philosophy as superior to both German Idealism and the Anglosphere's Analytic traditions.
An eagle named “Critical Theory” flew into the room and perched atop a burning American flag and shed a single tear on the dropped chalk. Sections of Lacan's Seminars were read several times, and the Spirit of Hegel himself showed up and demonstrated the nature of dialectics so vividly that everybody in the room progressed to a trans-physical state transcending conventional notions of time and space.
The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day and was forced to become a panelist on an MSNBC news show to make ends meet.
The brave psycho-analytic philosopher's name? Slavoj Zizek.

>>3957097
it's that time again

Slavoj Zizek. I've heard criticism stating that he's a pseudo-intellectual. Is there much value in reading his work? If so,

>>3352846
Why not?

Zizek-tan is mah waifu.

So why is he a charlatan?

>>2831893
>Gabe
>incharge of anything but shitty DRM and scummy policies.

Vote zizek, every year ever election.

>>2783507
>sorry i've been reading zizek and it's messing with my mind.

haah waaw

>>2694065
>intellectualizing his virginity and his poverty

Oh /lit/ never change

>>2687816
How about you write a story about how democracy is bad and dictatorships are more efficient if the dictator is benevolent and capitalist.

Write nonfiction about China is rising over US of A

>>2663732
>capitalist

>>2581699
oh god my sides

>>2487750
>mfw you're capitalist scum

>mfw everyone in this thread tacitly consents to capitalist value systems

>>2446229
>changing your message board before and after a pot habit

This guy.

>>2395749
awwww shitttttttt

is ecology the new opiate of the masses and how do you know if youre embedded in ideology?

>>2270593
Feels good not to be dead like Hitchens.
Everything's comin' up Zizek!

>>2105745

I know these threads are looked down upon, but I'd like to know more about the kind of people who post here.

>location
>favourite book(s)
>favourite author(s)

>mfw beebs isn't dead but he's back to bring this board into a new age