Slavoj Zizek on levels of stupidity (extract)

Continental philosopher Slavoj Žižek and Paul A. Taylor (author of Žižek and The Media) explore the difficulty of conveying philosophical ideas within today's media.
2011
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[@lanodramallama]

This makes absolutely zero sense as an excerpt. It's like joining a Christopher Nolan film halfway through.

[@farrider3339]

Hell, the sense is what you want ? A meaning ? A background where to build upon idiotic interpretation's ?
Meaning is for weenies, I claim.

[@yayo0]

if you are not well read on philosophy you obviously will not understand his references.

[@lucasfabisiak9586]

@@yayo0 Please enlighten us, professor.

[@ramdas363]

@@lucasfabisiak9586 To Be Fair, You Have To Have a Very High IQ to Understand Zizek...

[@welearntoday]

@@lucasfabisiak9586 for once he already explains this and builds more on it in the very beginning of his book "Less Than Nothing." Now, this is particularly is more of a classic zizek being zizek, just humour, although it does tie down and give nuance to following ideas in the introduction and later in the book as well so that's that. Also comparing Zizek to Christopher Nolan is like comparing Lacan to Michael Bay, very wrong, totally different types of incoherence are at play

[@NeoRoman1453]

"Idiocracy" was never meant to be a documentary, but here we are!

[@zestyfg]

Then we have the parrots who never muster up the courage to speak themselves, but simply repeat what others have said before them with the assuring certainty that their (but actually someone else’s) statement has been pre-approved by the masses.

[@NeoRoman1453]

@@zestyfg I wholeheartedly agree 👍
😊

[@noa7399]

​@@zestyfg didn't you listen? These are morons

[@MrSchmouz]

the grasp-the-snot frequency is staggering...
might this be the connection to the many mysterious stains he's got on his t-shirt usually?

[@georgepantzikis7988]

​@Mike Fuller How many IQ points were you off by?

[@nejzk2026]

from all the people Slavok Zizek is expert in stupidity

[@richmason5152]

@1:17 "Wittgenstein"

[@mokwatiramphisa4137]

Thanks.

[@farrider3339]

Three level's of hysterical babbling menace's - good, I claim !
Important to have these definitions. Now, where shall we put these ?
Btw idiocracy has taken over anyway, so let the rudder go and drift along without hurting the water 😊

[@omarlerouge5420]

don't forget the "stooopid" level these days

[@AnyaSheven]

what was this Kafka and Judaism comparison, I honestly didn't get it, and it was a mess of an explanation.... anyone? 😹

[@lucasfabisiak9586]

If I understand him correctly, Zizek is saying that although Kafka was certainly aware of his Jewishness, he did not explicitly incorporate it into his work.

[@mariettestabel275]

🤣 we are all stupid

[@collaborativedataaccounts3249]

@@lucasfabisiak9586 He did though, unconsciously. You cannot separate Kafka from his Jewishness or his Jew-as-outsider outlook on the world.

[@lucasfabisiak9586]

​@@collaborativedataaccounts3249Thank you for clarifying what "explicitly" means.

[@CeramicShot]

@@collaborativedataaccounts3249 I think he incorporated his Jewishness both unconsciously and consciously (read "Jackals and Arabs" for a conscious example), but never explicitly in his fiction. Inexplicit and unconscious aren't mutually exclusive.

[@sumitrashankarchamoli8547]

As usual , he is provocative, but may not be as profound as he seems to be by his hegelian speaking style .

[@H.C.J.]

Remember that Hegel is the reason why the structure of german literature is so overly intellectual to the point where we generate people that talk a whole lot who say a whole lot of nothing like Zizek 😊

[@hss12661]

What does Zizek have to do with German literature?

[@Vifnis]

"we generate people that talk a whole lot who say a whole lot of nothing"
Sorry, sir! I'll remember to speak in pure logic like a true Englishmen who follows Russel & Whitehead would!

[@etfreak]

i understand what he's saying he just usually goes on tangents and talks a lot