/lit/ - Literature

Zizek is a God! Praise him!

>>6483597
Jade Smith is an intellectual too, so as John Green and maybe Snoop Dogg.

Only Zizek can save us, and he dislike that he's called a public intellectual.

>>6384414
>m'property

>>6281900

haha oh wow

>>6230593

>he thinks he doesn't adhere to ideologies in everything he does and thinks

>>5861455

See? You react with hostility to the implication that you take part in this phenomenon of power-relations among humans that you have identified as bad and immoral. Too bad your attitudes and opinions don't have any influence on the phenomenon to which you apply them. Instead, you are defending the very concept of social hegemony from which your conception of evil oppressors and pitiable subordinates proceeds by positing that there is a moral high ground to be attained. "If everyone was like me, then everything would be better": that positive ideology is what you and the racists have got in common, and that's why I don't take you or your worldview (which you appropriated, by the way, from other people) seriously. It is fantasy that you concoct to make yourself feel big.

I'd like to see him discuss these things with Zizek, specially Gramsci and his folk

>>5618554

>Picasso
>close friends with Stalin's minister of propaganda Ilya Ehrenburg
>a racist bigot who incited the killings of millions


>Picasso
>turned art into an gross freak show

>>5570622

but could he see why people enjoy the taste of pure ideology?

>>5399336

>>5142832
>kill the Buddha, there is no salvation because there is no self to be saved yadda yadda.

le western romanticized buddhism

kek.

>outspoken atheist writer

>>5099475

>God comes to earth to show us the truth
>Speaks in riddles and parables
>no one gets it, everyone kills their neighbor for disagreeing

I imagine Jesus made this face when he ascended to heaven

>>4914559
>shit eating grin after reading it

The Monk.

>The Monk recounts the diabolical decline of Ambrosio, a Capuchin superior, who succumbs first to temptations offered by a young girl who has entered his monastery disguised as a boy, and continues his descent with increasingly depraved acts of sorcery, murder, incest and torture. Combining sensationalism with acute psychological insight, this masterpiece of Gothic fiction is a powerful exploration of how violent and erotic impulses can break through the barriers of social and moral restraint.

>>4864799
>>go back to re-filling my fountain pen so I can keep scribbling notes on post-its in my deluxe edition of Gravity's Rainbow
>>Internally weep for them and myself

>>4745853
>Fallout 3
>creative or original
>FUNCTIONING
Okay, you got a few replies out of me.

Do actual academics take Zizek seriously? If I brought him up to a PHI Prof, would he even know who he is?

>>4385783

WTF i posted zizek

I have no idea what I'm talking about, so here it goes...

The text sounds philosophical in a continentally poetic way.
It is a bit vague outside of context though. It could be talking about multiple personality disorder or about the metaphysical subject. Whether this is an allusion to a lifestyle or not I can't tell for sure.

>One travels; one takes himself intact. With a will.
When you travel, you do so in your entirety. As in the whole body works together to move. The limits drag the content along so to speak. This might seem trivial in itself, but it is relevant for the consciousness described in the rest of the text.

>One is a coherent being – needing nothing from the place one travels to but food, shelter and most importantly that the place one visits appears and in appearance yields a confirming example of one’s sentience.

As long as consciousness also has the self (we can be conscious without being self aware, such as in states of aphasia) and as such he is a coherent being, it just needs confirmation of its constantly renewed state of sentience through the fact that it has a world (the visited place appears to him).

>Or one travels in disarray, undone, a consciousness formed around displacement, needing nothing that one can put a finger on, needing a center.

One can of course lose himself in his activities, conscious only of his actions, confirming himself through the plurality of determinations (such as determined actions like studying, eating and so on) that needs (this is an important point, but not discussed here so I won't go into it) something to tie it together, a self. However this self, or subject as it is called, is not something that can be confirmed empirically (in neuroscience for instance) or theoretically (it can be taken as the interaction of various faculties, or just the illusion that a single faculty gives, or a naive abstraction of multiple faculties that have something in common). So it needs "nothing that one can put a finger on", a phrase that might be taken as a negative (it doesn't need anything touchable in some way) or as a positive (it needs the "nothing" that one can put a finger on).

Well, my intellectual wanking session is over for now. Hope I helped.

>>4245210
Zhees is how iddeohlojee fankshuns.

I need an especially easily-understandable and entertaining essay/article by Zizek to convince my writing teacher to use him in our class (basically she wants us to find an interesting cultural critic because she only knows of one and is looking for others).

Any suggestions?

>>4163035

>dat filename
>dat picture

>mfw