/lit/ - Literature

He looks happy with his life.

>>4082767
More sensational than thoughtful.

It baffles me that people show up to watch him splutter and twitch on stage for an hour, never saying anything of substance all the while.

Stallman?

>>4082775
try Google reverse image search m8, it's Slavoj Zizek.

>>4082780
Oh. Thought he'd just had a hair cut

Сферический народный демократ в вакууме -

Being oblivious about the network of courtly intrigues behind every notable motion in the real socialist camp he eventually became susceptible to superstition and augury which proved to be extremely popular with all the barbarous bureaucrat-kings of North-Western Europe.

>>4082792
Now that I look at it they really do look oddly similar.

What is the commonality? Zizek looks extremely Balkanese; now Stallman is Stallman.

>>4082834
he looks like that spooky picture

>>4082767
Implied Zizek vagina: nice

>>4082773
It's difficult to understand him, so his fans assume that he must be saying something profound. Once you analyze what he's saying to the point of understanding it, you realize that there's nothing of substance there, but it is always difficult enough to explain that the sycophants can claim that you don't actually understand him at all.

See also: any modern philosopher.

His film tastes are admirably eclectic.

>>4082767
put him in the pound where he belongs

#Gshep

>>4082914
Eclectic? It's just a mix of iconic wester blockbusters and axis powers propaganda. I cannot think of anything more banal, tendentious and derivative than that.

My annoyance at Mr. Zizek stems from the fact that it seems like he thinks being a philosopher comes down to not taking care of your appearance.

>>4082960
#rekt

>>4082968
>Dune
>the least watchable Lynch
That is terminally chill

>Noi Vivi
>Moussolini's Ayn Rand
the Chavez Knight of Edginess

>>4082970
No, that he got from being a gypsy. That how you picture a "Slavoj Zizek".
Translated to French his name would be François Jory.
Translated to German it's Hermann George.
Both would require a different emploi.

I don't know if any of you have read any of his works, but he knows a lot about current politics and modern history and applying philosophical/psychological insights to them.
>Oh wait this is /lit/
that guy is ugly and a modern philosopher,

There are better philosophers alive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTBNw6XLXvo

>>4083006
>most of the capitalist world
>the capitalist world
I understand Zizek - he's writing for living anachronisms but this dude is young. and still he is using 20th century verbiage. Is he trying to be hip with some milf?

>>4082775
zizek scoffs at your decadent western thoughtless response while spinning a fork covered in spaghetti with too much sauce while wearing a circa 1992 adidas tracksuit

>>4082970
>philosopher comes down to not taking care of your appearance.

Stop projecting, that you're literary knowledge has made you recognize that your a vain piece of shit onto Zizek.

I'm an unapologetic fan. I find his books very varying in quality from delightful insight to borderline obscurantism (philosophy wise), I like his style his mix of dead-seriousness and jokes, his use of unsuspected swear words, his construction of examples and i love his articles in the popular press.

He's too easy to hate.

Come at me

>>4084565
You're*

>>4084567
BOOM ROASTED

#REKT

>>4082767
Weird that people seem to be gravitating toward him before reading the basics.

I love the fact that he's fat. It gives me hope that I may still be seen as a great thinker, even though I'm a lardass.

>>4083040
at least he can speak without slobbering and spitting everywhere

>>4084669
Considering his love for paradoxes, I find it fitting. Portions of his work are highly accessible and provide not only an entertaining entry point into theory, but also an entry point to radical leftism in general. I think because he starts from leftism as a premise rather than a destination it does more to make people accept it a priori.

>>4084669
It happens for the same reason that people watch Lincoln before Gone With The Wind.

Is there assonance in john donne's good friday?

>>4084777
Except most movies, especially those like Spielberg's populist blockbusters, can be appreciated even by someone who has little knowledge of the history of cinema

>>4084791
Probably, but I haven't read it.

>>4082767
>haaah haaah haaaaahh yawrwnah

>But the Eastern Block of course-

>BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK

>Mr.Zizek I was just suggesting--

>BARK BARK WOOF WOOF

>Mr. Zizek surely you can't support

>GRRRRR GRRRR

>Okay, well then let's move on.

>grrrrr.... grrr.. ruf..

>>4084821
I need to know where exactly its in

LET man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this,
Th' intelligence that moves, devotion is ;
And as the other spheres, by being grown
Subject to foreign motion, lose their own,
And being by others hurried every day,
Scarce in a year their natural form obey ;
Pleasure or business, so, our souls admit
For their first mover, and are whirl'd by it.
Hence is't, that I am carried towards the west,
This day, when my soul's form bends to the East.
There I should see a Sun by rising set,
And by that setting endless day beget.
But that Christ on His cross did rise and fall,
Sin had eternally benighted all.
Yet dare I almost be glad, I do not see
That spectacle of too much weight for me.
Who sees Gods face, that is self-life, must die ;
What a death were it then to see God die ?
It made His own lieutenant, Nature, shrink,
It made His footstool crack, and the sun wink.
Could I behold those hands, which span the poles
And tune all spheres at once, pierced with those holes ?
Could I behold that endless height, which is
Zenith to us and our antipodes,
Humbled below us ? or that blood, which is
The seat of all our soul's, if not of His,
Made dirt of dust, or that flesh which was worn
By God for His apparel, ragg'd and torn ?
If on these things I durst not look, durst I
On His distressed Mother cast mine eye,
Who was God's partner here, and furnish'd thus
Half of that sacrifice which ransom'd us ?
Though these things as I ride be from mine eye,
They're present yet unto my memory,
For that looks towards them ; and Thou look'st towards me,
O Saviour, as Thou hang'st upon the tree.
I turn my back to thee but to receive
Corrections till Thy mercies bid Thee leave.
O think me worth Thine anger, punish me,
Burn off my rust, and my deformity ;
Restore Thine image, so much, by Thy grace,
That Thou mayst know me, and I'll turn my face.

>>4084644
The one on his left is his body double.

We can't be too careful with The Ziz. Always in two places at once.

>>4084832
find assonance go

>>4084838
You again? I thought I told you in /spuh/

>>4084669
>basics
>/fa/

>>4084914
dafuq u doin in lit?

>>4082773
>>4082900

The irony of these posts is that they are utterly lacking in substance.

>>4082767

>>4084939
wow funny tumblr meme good job comedy

>>4084791
The same "OH" sound occurs in the worlds "devotion" and "grown."

>>4084838
>can't find assonance on his own
You don't belong here.

>>4084971
>Anon
>Not a piece of worthless shit that doesn't want to help
>Pick one

>>4084959

>shit talking tumblr
>browsing /lit/

I'm not saying tumblr isn't a filthy cesspool of absolute shit but... think about what you're doing right now.

I love him. I think he is an intelligent guy who says intelligent stuff and always in ways that we don't normally see. I think he is an exceptional speaker, very articulated. I don't see him as a guy that is too hard to understand at all. I think he is hard to explain, in the sense that you can't reproduce what he says without saying like he does. And I think that is because he is always very aware about who he is speaking to, and always pressing forward with no prejudices nor barriers, as if he was not afraid of being obscure, not afraid of being extremely simple, not afraid of jokes, not afraid of sounding alarmist, etc.* I think great part of the criticism against him is only there because he is alive and speaking right now. There is no distance between him and what is happening to us and around us and sometimes I feel people pressure guys in this scenario to explain the world in a simple manner or give it a solution. I think Zizek is quite insightful and spot on, most of the times. His articles, essays and books are practically educational, they give you a ground from which you can work grom, not only in the realm of thought, but in how we relate to what's going on, on attitudes.

*etc. is an obscure term that means "and so on and so on"

>>4084974
>implying I didn't point out the assonance that occurs in the second and third lines
I can help and call out anon's laziness. Also, be gong with you.

>>4084989
>that asterisk aside
Got me.

>>4084993
need moar examples

>>4084989
Your post makes me want to give him a try. What book would you recommend me to read first by him If I am a complete noob?

>>4085083
It really depends on what you are interested, Lacan, Marx, cinema, shit that is happening right now, I don't know. His essays are pretty great and quick to read, I'd say it could be a good start. They are somewhat repetitive though, you'll find he gives the same commentary on different places, apparently his articles are made of highlights. I think I read about laxative chocolate three or four times.

There is a torrent around with a lot of his stuff, I believe it is this one: http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/6661009/Slavoj_Zizek_eBooks_Appendix

>>4082775
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=860wrIB4PBM
>dem rustles