Slavoj Zizek - The Nature of Orientalism

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  • Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024

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  • @Patavinity
    @Patavinity 8 лет назад +47

    The joke is that what he is saying directly contravenes the fashionable, liberal ideology of modern interpreters of Said. This holds, more or less, that people must be condemned to their origins and never be allowed to benefit from cross-cultural contact or study. As Zizek makes quite clear, he is totally against this.

    • @countchocula2169
      @countchocula2169 8 лет назад +8

      Good point. I'ts so corrupt. Ppl paying lip service to feel good while raping and staying in control

    • @kevinclass2010
      @kevinclass2010 4 года назад +4

      This is more important that Bolsenaro is isolating indigenous Amazon tribes to leave them at the mercy of raiders and thieves that want to attempt genocide. We should be skeptical of people who use condescending rhetoric because it still can be use to distract the pubic from their real intentions.

  • @AB-gw6uf
    @AB-gw6uf 3 года назад +10

    Wonderful! Agree so much with Zizek on this.
    His most self-contained video I've found on this topic.

  • @pjamesbda
    @pjamesbda 8 лет назад +5

    In as much as time is linear, we cannot go back, or forward for that matter all we have is the present and onward. An important point Slavoj almost made was the freedom from the State in having no fixed identity - as Malcom X did. As soon as we affix an identity, we begin to acknowledge the power of the State.

  • @Sam-gy3ok
    @Sam-gy3ok 8 лет назад +19

    The greatest irony is almost all talk of Orientalism deals with the attitudes of the west- it is eurocentric.

    • @benthebenevolent1001
      @benthebenevolent1001  8 лет назад

      I have found this video on "Arabic Occidentalism" from Eid Mohammed (although I haven't watched it yet).
      ruclips.net/video/KobUzCzU2DA/видео.html

    • @literallyjustmyname2353
      @literallyjustmyname2353 7 лет назад +31

      Isn't that because the "Orient" is a Western notion?

    • @MrGlutamate
      @MrGlutamate 6 лет назад +2

      Yes but you'll find these "critics of postmodernism" are really uninformed.

    • @pancakeslayer101
      @pancakeslayer101 Год назад +1

      The greatest Irony is that Said repudiates this East/West Binary, but you just wanted to dunk on an idea you haven't examined in any depth or seriousness.

    • @geebster.
      @geebster. Год назад

      For a variety of reasons, the internet and discourse (especially among English writing) is predominately "western" in its thinking. IF you want to discuss any other attitudes or ideas you do so in contrast to the predominant thought where you are discussing it.

  • @ciroberenguermusic
    @ciroberenguermusic 8 лет назад

    You could also find similar ideas on Alain Danielou's books specially about colonialism in India and Africa.

  • @matiastoro1667
    @matiastoro1667 Год назад

    Can someone give me a synopsis? I can never concentrate on what the guy is saying. His tics are too distracting.

  • @countchocula2169
    @countchocula2169 8 лет назад +10

    It's just a way to take care of the guilt they have while doing horrible things. All this kind lip service is raping the ppl to feel good about themselves. Such a pretty victim

    • @countchocula2169
      @countchocula2169 8 лет назад

      And it's victim blaming. It's such a shame they're so weak and backwards and need to be civilized because their culture is so special and sensitive. Just a shame they can't get their act together

    • @countchocula2169
      @countchocula2169 8 лет назад +4

      +Count chocula like getting turned down by a girl and then she says you're so sweet. She's making herself feel better not you. She's doing you harm. But she doesn't want to deal w that. She adds insult to injury. Your sweetness is now a bad thing in your mind. She corrupted part of you that's was good now.

    • @coreycox2345
      @coreycox2345 6 лет назад

      Are you sure that's what happened, Count chocula?

  • @sonnyobrien
    @sonnyobrien Год назад

    This video literally says nothing outstanding, and is a pretty vapid point: people other others so treat them like humans (capable of folly and evil). This does not actually communicate anything institutional, nor psychologically profound about colonialism. Curiosity and sensitivity of cultures that are different that ours is important to learn more about ourselves because we lack a self conscious politics today.

  • @anilmethipara
    @anilmethipara 6 лет назад +1

    This was funny

  • @ObeySilence
    @ObeySilence 6 лет назад +3

    "All that Bullshit and so on" Sounds like quite an accurate summary of himself.

  • @bluetv6386
    @bluetv6386 5 лет назад +1

    Zizek, your main issue is that you need a tissue...

  • @Jamesbrown8
    @Jamesbrown8 7 лет назад +4

    The most overrated film critic ever

  • @mitchie2267
    @mitchie2267 Год назад

    Said's scholarship was shoddy as fuck, especially when it came to when he quoted Marx.