Re: Marquis de Sade...yup! When I first read Marquis de Sade, I was thinking the same thing: "this is kind of a like a videogame!" Justine (the protagonist of her respective book) never suffers any residual damage from the horrors she encounters...she just gets up again unchanged in her convictions ("respawns") only to get tortured again. And Sades descriptions of torture are so graphic, mechanistic and repetitive...like the images of violence in a video game. Apparently Zizek concurs! Also see KILL ALL NORMIES...Angela Nagle (who admires Zizek) cites Sade as a precursor to the Alt Right, a movement heavily associated with video games.
Do you think this is why VR isn't actually that appealing, because it's too excluded from the real world. That the perfect VR would be more like glasses from which we see the real world in a literal virtual lens rather a screen in front of our eyes.
There's a contradiction in this. On the one hand he argues for the 'undead' libidinal immortality that video games are new to exploit; on the other, that Pokemon Go taps into a desire for meaning which precedes gaming in its overarching ideological function. Gaming exploits nothing new in regards either of these; we've all played soldier, and got up after arguing who died first.
I see no contradiction, in Pokemon Go your pokemon can die and be reborn and all like in other games, your gameplay just makes you really get up and walk, but I don't see a meaning in that.
you cant concetrate on a matter with music playing. If you like music you conetrate on music if you are about to think you concetrate on thinking...okay if you are a multitask apparatus then i ll pass....
The music + The Gameplay + The Snorting of Him = Treasure
"The greatest practitioner of Pokemon Go was Adolf Hitler with his antisemitism".
This is one of the few videos where the unrelated let's play actually added to the videoessay.
just start at 8:20 with no context.
lmao
I always return to this comment every few weeks, as if to pay my dues to my superego, just as a purely empty ritual deprived of its substance
same
you, Sir, are a hero
hahah
This music is obscene and so on.
You lay off of schubert
Re: Marquis de Sade...yup! When I first read Marquis de Sade, I was thinking the same thing: "this is kind of a like a videogame!" Justine (the protagonist of her respective book) never suffers any residual damage from the horrors she encounters...she just gets up again unchanged in her convictions ("respawns") only to get tortured again. And Sades descriptions of torture are so graphic, mechanistic and repetitive...like the images of violence in a video game. Apparently Zizek concurs!
Also see KILL ALL NORMIES...Angela Nagle (who admires Zizek) cites Sade as a precursor to the Alt Right, a movement heavily associated with video games.
In what world are video games associated with the Alt-Right?
The song is schubert‘s serenade one a piano
Praise the Sun!
Best Moment when zizek Talks about undeads 😅
So, Ideology is the lens through which we watch reality
Maybe if you're a Marxist.
No, that’s what your eyes are for
I unironcally want Zizeks take on GTA, because to me it’s the best satire of capitalism out there
Do you think this is why VR isn't actually that appealing, because it's too excluded from the real world. That the perfect VR would be more like glasses from which we see the real world in a literal virtual lens rather a screen in front of our eyes.
You will live to see horrors beyond your imagination
Is that a threat 🥵
Nice video
POKEMON IDEOLOGY
hey, quillette disabled comments on that video??!!
What is the song in the background?
Liszt’s arrangement of Shubert’s Serenade
this is, in the truest sense of the word, pretentious, yet interesting.
Slavojs statements.
counterpoint: no
First is unquestionable, second much less so.
There's a contradiction in this. On the one hand he argues for the 'undead' libidinal immortality that video games are new to exploit; on the other, that Pokemon Go taps into a desire for meaning which precedes gaming in its overarching ideological function. Gaming exploits nothing new in regards either of these; we've all played soldier, and got up after arguing who died first.
I see no contradiction, in Pokemon Go your pokemon can die and be reborn and all like in other games, your gameplay just makes you really get up and walk, but I don't see a meaning in that.
9:45
i keked
what is that with the backround piano? are you serious?
you cant concetrate on a matter with music playing. If you like music you conetrate on music if you are about to think you concetrate on thinking...okay if you are a multitask apparatus then i ll pass....
right...
delete music