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What is it about Zizek that makes him so popular here?

Without resorting to memes, why do you guys genuinely like him?

>> No.6172456

>>6172449
He's entertaining and likeable. He talks about pop culture. People can relate to him. He's left-wing but critical of liberal ideology.

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he's hilarious but he's way too entrenched in a particular elbow of critical theory to be of much non-meme interest. he's done his homework and he's doing his duty as a leftist so he's iight

>> No.6172461

>>6172449
A slav is better suited to understanding westerners than westerners themselfs. My mom is a similar to the age he is and she has similar taste in cinema(most of those movies not being allowed for the public to watch at that time) and opinion on western liberals, without the heavy philosophical terminology.

>> No.6172463

He's funny, he has a lot of videos unlike most philosophers (for obvious reasons), he makes Marxism, psychoanalysis and Hegelian dialectics into to just regular stuff. He markets himself really well, he inserts himself into popular movies to make commentary. His major object of enquiry is something we all experience daily, the very fabric of everything, so we can easily apply him to things we encounter. He doesn't try to be an intellectual, he doesn't pose with a pipe or holding his chin, he just acts like himself, and when he says something deep he doesn't make it look like his intellectual prowess, just like something shocking he just noticed and is pointing at with you saying, "My got!"

>> No.6172466

>>6172461
what is Zizeks taste in cinemas?

what about literature?

>> No.6172479

>>6172466
>what is Zizeks taste in cinemas?
Basically old housholdname directors that noone under 25 has watched but know about, due to their extreme influence. Zizek does watch all kinds of movies though, he's an all-around film buff. Even things like Projext X(which is actually good for such a shit genre).

>> No.6172491

>>6172449
he is pointing at us...

>> No.6172496

>>6172466
>it is Jane Austen who is perhaps the only counterpart to Hegel in literature: Pride and Prejudice is the literary Phenomenology of Spirit; Mansfield Park the Science of Logic and Emma the Encyclopaedia . . . No wonder, then, that we find in Pride and Prejudice the perfect case of this dialectic of truth arising from misrecognition.

-Zizek, The Sublime Object of Ideology, page 66

>> No.6172519

>>6172479
>Basically old housholdname directors that noone under 25 has watched but know about, due to their extreme influence

like who? are we talking like Hitchcock here?

>> No.6172522

>>6172519
Well The Birds is the first film he talks about in the Pervert's Guide to Cinema.

>> No.6172528

>>6172449
>>6172449
For me, It's the fact that the guy actually has put out some serious philosophical works (Parallax View, Indivisible Remainder.)

>> No.6172529

>>6172449
He's a pop-philosopher, easy to digest. He's attractive for lazy people who don't want to read credible works of philosophy because they require too much of the reader.

His videos are amusing at best, and this is only due to his comical accent. They offer nothing a reasonably intelligent person couldn't discern themselves.

>> No.6172530

>>6172529
lol, The Indivisible Remainder is far from being an easy meal, m80

>> No.6172533

>>6172529
Which works of his have you even read?

>> No.6172542

>>6172530
Please. I've read opinion pieces in the local newspaper that required more intuition.
>>6172533
"The Sublime Object of Ideology", "First as Tragedy, Then as Farce", "Violence", "In Defense of Lost Causes", "The Indivisible Remainder", "Living in the End Times"

>> No.6172551

>>6172542
None of those works are easy. Zizek doesn't obfuscate and tries to be as simple as possible, but he interfaces enormously with Lacan, Hegel and Marx, along with other theorists.

>> No.6172553
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>>6172542
>The Sublime Object of Ideology", "First as Tragedy, Then as Farce", "Violence", "In Defense of Lost Causes", "The Indivisible Remainder", "Living in the End Times"
I don't think you have, you're talking about of your ass.

>> No.6172557

>>6172551
>>6172553

Are you guys new to reading?
He waters down philosophical ideas proposed by precursors, and adapts them to modern events.
He is essentially the embodiment of a pop-philosopher.

>> No.6172565

>>6172557
No, he doesn't, and illustrate that, I posted the excerpt. Exactly which prior philosopher considers the "stain" as the source of ideology's power?

>> No.6172682

>>6172456
this is pretty much on the ball. it's the fact he incorporates so much pop culture into his critique that he has become a cultlike figure

>> No.6173920

>>6172449
He's something out of the ordinary in Western intellectual life. He as introduced a level of--dare I say it--spirituality to modern discourse that was previously lacking. Anglo saxon discourse has always been a little bit flat, unimaginative and hyper literal; this leads to overly predictable intellectuals who focus too much on economics and not enough on psychology. The continental tradition to which Zizek belongs, on the other hand, is basically a form of mysticism (I mean that in a good way) which presents risks in itself but nonetheless seems like a breath of fresh air in the infamously "castrated" English intellectual climate.

>> No.6174626

>intellectually stimulating
>leftist but not SJW or new atheist
>eccentric
>funny accent
>dem dialectics

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>>6172458
pretty much this

>> No.6174832

>>6172456
>He's left-wing but critical of liberal ideology.
Any left winger worth their salt is critical of the piecemeal pissing match of American liberalism, which only denies its own love of Capitalism and its spoils. They only diverge from the right on a few social issues. When the social issues are solved, American liberals will look just like Republicans -- happy with their wealth and unwilling to give up superflous comforts in the name of equality.

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>What is it about Zizek that makes him so popular here?

HE IS RADICAL; MOST FREQUENT USERS OF THIS BOARD ARE RADICAL.

SLAVOJ ZIZEK IS THE MOST RELEVANT PHILOSOPHER CURRENTLY ALIVE.