Zizek: seems like a nob

[sihhi]

Why on earth would he want to do that?

What kind of twelve year old asks a greying elderly linguist grandparent?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I reckon I could explain chaos theory to a 12 year old in five minutes.

Restricting relativity to special relativity, I'd give it a go. What I'd be doing is repeating Einstein's explanation using a person on a train and a person on the railtrack. Some might get it, others not. But it's definitely worth a shot.


tbh I hate the underlying assumption here. Richard Feynman wrote an excellent book about quantum mechanics, which explains things in a way that is accessible to everyone. With short words, short sentences. It takes longer than 5 minutes, but he goes step by step and there is no difficult step in there.

The more complex the ideas, the simpler the language you should be using to explain them.

 

[DotCommunist]

zizeck looks like a cock there for mocking chomsky's oft use of the phrase 'and so on'

 

[articul8]

No zizek uses that all the time too not just here

 

[DotCommunist]

oh ok, maybe they both share that verbal tic- I thought he was being snide

 

[seventh bullet]

Where did the philosopher get his knowledge of the KR from, Wikipedia?

 

[CNT36]

http://www.zcommunications.org/fantasies-by-noam-chomsky
A response to Zizek's response.

 

[butchersapron]

From that:

For example, in the Winter 2008 issue of the German cultural journal Lettre International, Žižek attributed to me a racist comment on Obama by Silvio Berlusconi. I ignored it. Anyone who strays from ideological orthodoxy is used to this kind of treatment. However, an editor of Harper’s magazine, Sam Stark, was interested and followed it up. In the January 2009 issue he reports the result of his investigation. Žižek said he was basing the attribution on something he had read in a Slovenian magazine. A marvelous source, if it even exists. And anyway, he continued, attributing to me a racist comment about Obama is not a criticism, because I should have made such remarks as “a fully admissible characterization in our political and ideological struggle.” I leave it others to decode. When asked about this by Slovene journalist/activist Igor Vidman, Žižek answered that he had discussed it with me over the phone and I had agreed with him: http://www.vest.si/2009/01/31/zizkov-kulturni-boj/. Of course, sheer fantasy.

 

[audiotech]

As for the link in the quoted piece:
Oops! Google Chrome could not find www.vest.si
...and a partial comment from that:

God knows, I've fought my way through enough theory texts for a lifetime...but Zizek is just absurd. You could have a better conversation with a tomato plant than with a guy ike that is my guess,..

All becoming bonkers overall.

 

[killer b]

I came across this wonderful thing this morning, and it brought a little sunshine into my life: in 2003, Zizek wrote some ludicrous text for an Abercrombie and Fitch catalogue. Some highlights in the page linked to below, but do have a look through the full catalogue, which is hilarious from beginning to end.

| That Time Zizek Wrote for Abercrombie & FitchCritical-Theory.com

 

[petee]

 

[LDC]

Watched 'The Pervert's Guide to Ideology' recently, it made a long train journey in Europe both seem longer and more surreal.

 

[Idris2002]

AFAIK the only ethnographic research done on the Piraha has been by a linguist who started out as an Evangelical Christian missionary, before going through a crisis of faith and losing his faith. Like his claim that the Piraha lack the linguistic features that Chomsky considers universal and panhuman, his points about their alleged lack of a "sense of the divine" are intriguing and important, but badly need to be confirmed by another researcher. It may well be that he's right, but it might also be that his particular relationship to religion, coming from his crisis of faith, lead him to misinterpret Piraha culture.

I heard last year that this particular linguist pissed off so many people in Brazil, including indigenous people, that he's banned from working in indigenous areas in Brazil.

 

[NoXion]

I mean, depending on who he's referring to and why, I could agree with him.

 

[petee]

I mean, depending on who he's referring to

yourself?

 

[NoXion]

yourself?

 

[Karl Masks]

At the risk of sound like a massive thundercunt, I find the creepy transphobic lispy twat an utter cunt

 

[chilango]

Transphobic?

 

[iamwithnail]

I went to a talk he gave a few years ago at UCL and there were definitely a few transphobic remarks, need to see if I can find a transcript somewhere.

 

[8ball]

Something something malleability of identity fitting in perfectly with the ideology of capitalism?

 

[ska invita]

i found this thumbnail interesting (havent watch the video)...not only has Zizek been reduced to the "shocked face for clicks" video, but i love how a video about WW3 with a nuclear bomb going of has the moustached man so amused. weird times

 

[Lord Camomile]

Maybe Zizek is reacting to WWIII, while the other guy is reacting to Metaphysics.

 

[Flavour]

he was recently saying France needed "law and order" during the riots

 

[Pickman's model]

I went to a talk he gave a few years ago at UCL and there were definitely a few transphobic remarks, need to see if I can find a transcript somewhere.

Any luck?

 

[ska invita]

Pretty damning round up of his utterances

Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek

One of the most prominent intellectuals in the contemporary world was named to the list of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012. He shares this distinction with the likes of Dick Cheney, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Mossad director Meir Dagan...

www.counterpunch.org

To be honest if you hang around his rambling long enough he'd probably say the opposite at some point

 

[maomao]

I heard last year that this particular linguist pissed off so many people in Brazil, including indigenous people, that he's banned from working in indigenous areas in Brazil.

Daniel Everett's claim for many years has been that upsetting Chomsky got him banned from visiting the Piraha. His books are more compelling than Chomsky's last few goes at Linguistics though I don't completely trust him.

 

[Favelado]

I bought his newest book and it was entertaining enough but a bit pricey for a quick read. I like him on the whole and think it's good that there is still a space for a philosopher in the broader public consciousness.

 

[ska invita]

I bought his newest book and it was entertaining enough but a bit pricey for a quick read. I like him on the whole and think it's good that there is still a space for a philosopher in the broader public consciousness.

Was there any philosophy in it? I haven't heard him philosophise in a long time... have to agree with Chomsky: what is his philosophy? What is Zizekism? Just seems a manic hot taker these days. He definitely has opinions.

 

[The39thStep]

Pretty damning round up of his utterances

Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek

One of the most prominent intellectuals in the contemporary world was named to the list of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012. He shares this distinction with the likes of Dick Cheney, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Mossad director Meir Dagan...

www.counterpunch.org

To be honest if you hang around his rambling long enough he'd probably say the opposite at some point

“the problem with Hitler was that he was not violent enough.”

Based. Got to admire that sort of philosophy.

 

[discokermit]

He definitely has opinions.

for money.