#zizek

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There’s annoying tendency in left-wing film criticism to write reviews of movies with the twist being that the reviewer never saw it. All the trenchant commentary they made was based on the publicity campaign, the word from other reviews, and predicting forward from past films from that studio or franchise. Zizek did it with Matrix Resurrections and SMG did it with Avenger’s Endgame. It’s dumb trope and I *like* SMG and Zizek. I’m sure you’ve seen the trend going around.

It’s a joke see, that everything is so predictable that an observer of culture can see it without seeing. And yes, true, you’re very clever, but so what? I’m clever too - so what have you TOLD me that I did not already know? Every time we watch a movie is an encounter with the Real. We can choose to see only the properties we expect - how likable the characters are, is the franchise fading, whether right wing OR left wing tropes appear and how many - or we can actually see the thing in itself. We can notice that for all Love and Thunder is cheap mood-killing jokes for the first hour, there’s a half an hour of dead serious emotions filmed in black and white. We can notice how incredibly cute the outfits of the horror movie’s Final Girl are. We can apply our own perspective to the film - not just in our ideological interpretation, but simply what details you caught no one else did.

This is why the greatest sin is to read only the reviews and the fanfic and godforbid the DISCOURSE around a film and think you don’t actually need to see the movie yourself. To think picking up “the vibe” is enough of a replacement for direct experience.

To know the truth, you must see Goncharov yourself. Until then, everything is shadows against the cave wall.

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Title/Name: Slavoj Žižek, popularly known as 'Žižek', born in (1949). Bio: Slovenian philosopher, director, professor, senior researcher, cultural theorist, and public intellectual. He primarily works on continental philosophy (particularly Hegelianism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism), political theory, film criticism, and theology. Country: Slovenia Wojak Series: Chad (Variant), Feels Guy (Variant) Image by: Unknown Main Tag: Žižek Wojak

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Jordan Peterson: you see... this something the cultural marxists want to hide from you... *starts getting teary eyed* I mean, just imagine being a part of a roving Indoeuropean war gang 8000 years ago... the steppe calls to you through the western spirit of individualism... you ride your mare wife as you "mount" your she-wolf cousin... that's the beauty of the nomad archetype, isn't it? The freedom, the freedom that has since been lost to woke moralism and cancel culture... *starts pathetically whimpering* they don't sleep on the steppe anymore...

Slavoj zizek: *wipes nose* you see, with ideology, it is a shit fuck pile of garbage. The big other doea not *coughs* want *sniffs nose* you to fuck your sister, fuck your mother, fuck your little brother, so on and so on. *wipea nose again* and so, in this quite deleuzian manner, you start to draw furry pornography depicting incest between children and adults, children and children, children and ferals, until *sniffs nose again* the big other notices and calls cancel culture down upon you

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[toxicshipsincorporated]

I don't always agree with Zizek but what he says often resonates with me and even if I disagree, it's in a way that's super fruitful, I disagree in a way that makes me want to aay more. He is truly one of my favorite philosophers.

He is also one of the most hilarious fucking people on earth. And he's not trying to be. He is just so ridiculous that he was a meme at one point. Name another currently living philosopher that is hilarious enough to be a meme.

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[heavensickness]

i am BEGGING slavoj zizek to make a tumblr account at this point. this is literally how we talk about movies on here

[homoerotisch]

Slavoj Žižek, First as Tragedy, then as Farce

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What the melancholic subject misperceives in her attachment to the lost object is that the object in itself, objet a, was always-already lost.

Slavoj Zizek - Melancholy and the Act. Critical Inquiry Vol. 26, No. 4 (Summer, 2000), The University of Chicago Press

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[lafemmemoderne]

Neon Genesis Evangelion, it's one of those nice, slice-of-life japanese animes where you have predatory relationships, which is portrayed as a nice secret between guardian and child - I like this.

[grandpasessions]

Let us take as a starting point Lacan's famous statement according to which desire is (always) the desire of the Other. It is important to bear in mind that this phrase does not exclude the ethical maxim: ' do not give up on your desire '. In other words, the dimension of the Other does not exclude the authenticity of the subject's desire. But how is this possible?

Only if we admit that the desire of the Other does not present itself in the form of an answer or a commandment ('1 want this or that!'), but - as Lacan points out - in the form of a question or an enigma, comparable to the one that the Sphinx posed to Oedipus.

The subject will reply and, replying in one way or another, he will write the destiny of his desire. The statement 'desire is the desire of the Other' postulates the Other as the site where the question of desire originally emerges. The point is not that the desire of the Other exists somewhere else, with the subject knowing what it is and making it the model of his own desire.

Exactly the same thing can be said about the Kantian moral law. The subject does not know what the law wants. It is at this point that we can situate a convergence or an encounter between Kant and Lacan. ' The law is a law of the unknown' is the fundamental proposition of any ethics worthy of the name.

Ethics of the Real A. Zupancic

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Like A Thief In Broad Daylight