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Stalinism without borders.

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Hope I helped :)

He doesn't have any argument.

He floats from one popular theme to the next.

He fucking sucks.

Essentially that we all have ideologies and that some things aren't the way they seem or even they way they seem to not seem on purpose

Social Marxist intellectual pomo/post-struc propagandist. But jokes on u I voted for Obama

This is a pretty good summary of his ideas I think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgR6uaVqWsQ

Christianity reveals that Lacan was right.
There is no Big Other
Ideology is doing something without realizing it, but in modern capitalism we know what we are doing and do it anyway
Love is impossible
Liberal multiculturalism is the true intolerance today

>>5708481
Making money of saying controversial entertaining philosophical nonsense.


Also his wiki

Whatever you like.

The opposite of that.

And so on and so on.

He is a Marxist through Lacan interpretation.

>>5708481
My God!, and so on *touches nose* Hegel, do we not?

>>5708641
>Love is impossible

right in the feels

>>5708641
he never said love is impossible. Back to the greeks.

pure ideology

>>5708641
>Ideology is doing something without realizing it, but in modern capitalism we know what we are doing and do it anyway
I really feel like this is his main point

All you ever need to know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80X0pbCV_t4

>>5708641
>Liberal multiculturalism is the true intolerance today
/pol/ please go.

>>5711507
Have you even read "Violence"?

You must, because you can.

>>5711507
Zizek is against liberal multiculturalism, it is one of his main critiques against today's left.

>>5711507
just read his stuff, instead of dropping maymays. he really makes sense. do it

People are incapable of inventing new freedoms because the chains are in their minds.
>yes, this is a shallow caricature

>>5713936
The worst thing is that the chinesse uniform makes her look almost presentable, the "regular clothes" pics are disgusting.

>>5711817
I just read his 2010 column from Guardian and he's criticising liberal multiculturalism for not being liberal and multicultural enough. Is that what you were saying?

>>5714561

link please

>>5713945
>her

its a dude tho. i think

>>5708641
>Ideology is doing something without realizing it, but in modern capitalism we know what we are doing and do it anyway

i don't get it

>>5713945
>her

>>5708481
Communism without clinging to the past

>>5714587
why do you care if some subhuman wants to use a pronoun for the shittier gender? not like 'she' implies you should have a sexual interest in it, you probably don't want to fuck everybody who you call 'she', consider ugly and/or old women etc

>>5709871
The Greek tradition is continued through the analytics, not the unfalsifiable ramblings of a tired communist.

>>5708489

Top kek

>>5708493
How can it stand for that, when his name is not Zizek, but Žižek? Btw. in Slovenian "žižek" means beetle.

>>5708481
Le itchy communist man

>>5708641
>Ideology is doing something without realizing it, but in modern capitalism we know what we are doing and do it anyway

What the fuck does that mean? Can anyone give me a tangible explanation which doesn't fly into crazy contintentalist abstractions?

Zizek is fucking incomprehensible. Nothing he says has any tangibility to it.

Every time I try to find some information about Hegel through Google, I come to some bullshit Zizek wrote that's more about Lacan than Hegel and is more about psychoanalysis and capitalism than Hegel when it actually IS about Hegel.

Chocolate laxatives

>>5714589
Everyone knows consumerism is basically bad for the environment, their self-esteem, their wallet, and the exploited workers who produce cheap commodities in Laotian sweatshops, but they're still consumerists. The smart capitalist is the capitalist who makes you feel like you aren't a consumerist even as you know you're consuming.

Someone please post Zizek talking dirty to his wife.

>>5708481
a german, a french, and an englishmen go in the toilet...

>>5708641
>Liberal multiculturalism is the true intolerance today

Zizek is no Michéa. He is not entirely consistent on that particular point.

>>5715042
It's something he often says or elaborates on, though. He isn't consistent about very much.

>>5708641
>Liberal multiculturalism is the true intolerance today

Actually he's against the idea of tolerance in itself.

>>5714984
Ok, so the running adage about the proletariat has historically been 'they do not know what they're doing but are doing it' which is pretty straightforward oppression by being denied knowledge and agency by the powerful. The quote you don't understand refers to the fact that in an age of abundant information (21st century North America and Europe), we have the knowledge to understand that capitalist structure exploits the working class and does not provide for citizens with respect to nationally desired egalitarianism and fundamental human rights. However, we are subordinated by being placated and tantalized by resource commodities we are conditioned to believe are necessary for a western lifestyle and which appeal to our more base drives for possession and consumption. So we know the shit we buy is mostly crap and superfluous, but we have subconsciously been tricked into going for it anyway and following corporations by the nose, all the while thinking we are being intelligent scrupulous consumers who 'understand' the western consumerist ideology simply because we are privy to information

>>5708641
who else read this in his voice?

>>5708641
The problem here is that Christianity teaches that there is a Big Other and Zizek's interpretation of Christianity as atheistic is an explicitly atheistic and non-Christian interpretation of Christianity.

>>5713936
Stalin>>>>>>>>>>

>>5715017
>>5715058
cool. is there a certain book of his where he writes about this or is this idea spread throughout several works?

i wonder what zizek things of marcuse's repressive tolerance bullshit? ? ?

>>5715761
*thinks

i guess daddy cool isn't so cool today

>>5708481
>what he stands for

my god, this is pure ideology

>>5715719
It's one of the ideas he brings up whenever he has the opportunity, which is a lot, since it lies at the intersection of modern capitalism and ideology, two of his biggest things.
Watch Pervert's Guide to Ideology.

>>5715136
I've started reading nearly everything academic in Zizek's voice, it's really turning into a problem

>>5714978
Need to look up his thoughts on Kafka now

Zizek is very simple.

We live in a capitalist world where we are controlled by our desire for greater wages and materials. We are aware of this enslavement but paradoxically we prefer to embrace the lie (American dream, be all you can be, Disney, etc.). His are pretty common sense observations once you think about it.

>>5716598

>tfw Zizek is your mental linguistic guidance man

complain about stuff
make no sense
try to seem intelligent but fail horribly
be boring as fuck

zizek 101

>>5716598
Is this not, as it were, a perfect example of interpassivity in today's world: Zizek's voice performs the reading of the text to save us the effort of reading it ourselves, much as canned laughter on sitcoms does the laughing for us, and so on and so on?

>>5716676
That is not all though, he although gets very deeply into Hegel, specifically Totality and Meaning

>>5716715
lel

>>5714984
Lmfao
How simpleminded do you have to be
He's really not that hard to read, at all

Fucking analytic cockstain babies need to grow up and learn to read.

>>5716872
Yeah stay the hell away from analytic philosophy. It's full of math and logic symbols and it doesn't have any deep-sounding catchphrases to put on your Facebook. Even worse, analytic philosophers actually have to substantiate their claims, and no amount of reefer will help you with that.

>>5717008
>It's full of math and logic symbols
>actually buying into this wannabe obscurantism wankery
At least post-analytics realize it's bullshit

>have to substantiate their claims
mfw pic related

>>5716715

>>5715017
>and the exploited workers who produce cheap commodities in Laotian sweatshops
YEAH IF ONLY WE STOPPED BUYING THOSE COMMODITIES THEN THEIR LIVES WOULD TURN FOR THE BETTER

>>5717118

THPS4 is GOAT