Stating the obvious is what non-academics claim about a completed-explained academic position – position that as a compliment for it is obvious that is the nature of the act that it looks that way afterwards. What’s written above is the form in which I tried to remember this particular point. And the form of it […]
Category archives: zizek
A Jester
I just listened to a comparatively recent lecture by Zizek He made a point via recalling having recently read a late autobiography by a survivor from Auschwitz. The author is quoted saying something which offers justification for cruel but necessary treatment of the Palestinians by the Israeli state. He repeats the criticism made of this […]
Zizek (again)
As I listened and watched “The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology” Zizek’s second full-length film with Sophie Fiennes. I’d tried watching it one time and had found it frustrating purely because I had heard many of the philosophical anecdotes in other lectures by Zizek. Yesterday evening I watched it the whole way through and enjoyed it […]
101
I am a Quaker, a member of the Religious Society of Friends. I was at meeting for worship in Sheffield this morning and heard R, a prominent Quaker I’d say, speak about her love of passage 1.01 from Advices and Queries. Here it is: As Friends we commit ourselves to a way of worship which […]
a posteriori (afterthoughts)
In a long discussion with who I cannot remember, but in a sad frame of mind at the time, I started to think about cause and effect. Perhaps it was with Melissa that I talked and I think I probably spoke to myself a fair amount at the time as well. Dear Mr Zizek had […]
desire…
Zizek’s definition of an obsessional neurotic (himself included) is someone whose object of desire is the other’s desire. So I do recall a very intimate moment in which a friend told me that he had been drawn into the eyes of a woman, he had seen in her a great beauty which was not an […]