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I agree that he is difficult to understand and it’s difficult to get over his twitches and unique speaking style. I appreciate you breaking this down.

Great work, Brian! So glad you’re bringing your exegetical talents to this text. Looking forward to the coming installments!

@addammadd

Жыл бұрын

Knew I’d find you here.

Thank God. This has sat on my shelf for years. I'm glad to finally have a helping hand.

My god, this is so packed with insights. Amazing video.

I’ve been out of action for a month, and tuning into your channel again is somehow cleansing, like the feeling of relief to be home again.

@SingularityasSublimity

Жыл бұрын

Welcome back! And thank you for the uplifting comment :)

Great vid, looking forward to this series!

Thank you!

Buen video. Coincido.

WOW! Thank you sooo much, dear sir ❤

@SingularityasSublimity

10 ай бұрын

Most welcome!

Spinoza - mind and body are one-just as all of nature is one substance.

@SingularityasSublimity

Жыл бұрын

yes, exactly, so it’s interesting that Zizek focuses on this philosopher’s exclusion from a communal body rather than his monistic philosophy as the reason for claiming Spinoza as exemplary philosopher.

Glad to see such a premium channel on ytb! In fact, there are some Marxists doing wonderful work after reading Lacan and Zizek in China.

This explains why Zizek is trying so hard to become an outcast himself xD

@SingularityasSublimity

Жыл бұрын

haha, good point. Or perhaps he assumed a philosophy that best expressed his already established position of outcast.

So if there is an outcast potential within every in-group, and the role of the outcast is to use that position in order to find the universal truth that appeals to the outcasts of every in-group... why doesn't anything come of this? Surely, whether or not anyone wrote about these things in the way Zizek does here, we are not original in our experiences. This idea that a person can get outside of their in-groups and maintain any meaningful power seems chiasmatic. If it is successful, the outcasts become the in-group (perhaps a larger group than before) while the previous in-groups become the outcasts, and the cycle repeats over history. Reading Zupancic's book "What is Sex", it seems that the negativity of the sex as a 'some thing' which resists signification (because it is Real?) must be applied to these ideas of philosophies. In weight-lifting, it is ineffective to focus on one's own form, if that focus entails assigning attention to the physical positioning of the body against an ideal positioning. It is much more beneficial if the person assigns their focus to resisting the load against which that person is lifting/pulling/pushing. The former can lead to the body pulling and pushing against itself and never encountering the growth stimulus (mechanical tension, metabolic stress, muscular damage), while the latter inherently constrains effort to the encounters with the load (and therefore tension, stress, damage). Is it really of much use to do the same intellectually? There is a load we deal with (the Real) which cannot be accessed (understood), much the same way we do not perceive any specific load when moving our muscles (ie: without visual and tactile input, there would be no conception of what it is that we are moving, and yet it would move whenever we adjust our focus - we would feel its strain). So if a person's stance is set to copy an ideal form, they have a much higher risk of impeding their own perception of the load, and may create their own internal loads that are precisely imaginary. Is the role of philosophy to remove those imagined, internally created loads, to teach a simpler perception? That would seem to be what Zizek typically did by identifying and illustrating ideology. But I can't help but feel that it still is not teaching anyone to perceive things in opposition to the Real, that while we feel we have relaxed the internal loads, we are now no longer resisting or detecting any load at all (and yet it is there).

5:10 "Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis" is Ficthe, not Hegel

@SingularityasSublimity

Жыл бұрын

yes exactly. Hence why it is a common misinterpretation that Zizek rightfully corrects

zizek cant eff wit' the rhizome

lacuna=discursive :)