- Religions and Spirits4 min
Slavoj Zizek’s The Puppet and the Dwarf
Turning Christianity upside downTurning Christianity upside down
The most interesting thing about the New Yorker's May 2003 profile of Slavoj Zizek was the suggestion that the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, whose mitteleuropan mug gazed out at us with an expression at once shocked and bemused, was actually a comedian. And indeed, Zizek's hyperactive video-clerk neo-Hegelianism has become something of a shtick by now, his most characteristic rhetorical move--the paradoxical switcheroo, whereby X in fact turns out to be Y inside-out--a punch line in analytic disguise. But... - Mind and Philosophy
Descartes and the Matrix
Cogito in the MatrixCogito in the Matrix
The most interesting thing about the New Yorker's May 2003 profile of Slavoj Zizek was the suggestion that the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, whose mitteleuropan mug gazed out at us with an expression at once shocked and bemused, was actually a comedian. And indeed, Zizek's hyperactive video-clerk neo-Hegelianism has become something of a shtick by now, his most characteristic rhetorical move--the paradoxical switcheroo, whereby X in fact turns out to be Y inside-out--a punch line in analytic disguise. But... - Moving Pictures9 min
The Matrix Way of Knowledge
The Philosophy of the MatrixThe Philosophy of the Matrix
The most interesting thing about the New Yorker's May 2003 profile of Slavoj Zizek was the suggestion that the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, whose mitteleuropan mug gazed out at us with an expression at once shocked and bemused, was actually a comedian. And indeed, Zizek's hyperactive video-clerk neo-Hegelianism has become something of a shtick by now, his most characteristic rhetorical move--the paradoxical switcheroo, whereby X in fact turns out to be Y inside-out--a punch line in analytic disguise. But... - Quotes
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“Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster
“Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster
The most interesting thing about the New Yorker's May 2003 profile of Slavoj Zizek was the suggestion that the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, whose mitteleuropan mug gazed out at us with an expression at once shocked and bemused, was actually a comedian. And indeed, Zizek's hyperactive video-clerk neo-Hegelianism has become something of a shtick by now, his most characteristic rhetorical move--the paradoxical switcheroo, whereby X in fact turns out to be Y inside-out--a punch line in analytic disguise. But... - Quotes
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It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment
It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment
The most interesting thing about the New Yorker's May 2003 profile of Slavoj Zizek was the suggestion that the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, whose mitteleuropan mug gazed out at us with an expression at once shocked and bemused, was actually a comedian. And indeed, Zizek's hyperactive video-clerk neo-Hegelianism has become something of a shtick by now, his most characteristic rhetorical move--the paradoxical switcheroo, whereby X in fact turns out to be Y inside-out--a punch line in analytic disguise. But... - Quotes
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But what if the medium is the message?
But what if the medium is the message?
The most interesting thing about the New Yorker's May 2003 profile of Slavoj Zizek was the suggestion that the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, whose mitteleuropan mug gazed out at us with an expression at once shocked and bemused, was actually a comedian. And indeed, Zizek's hyperactive video-clerk neo-Hegelianism has become something of a shtick by now, his most characteristic rhetorical move--the paradoxical switcheroo, whereby X in fact turns out to be Y inside-out--a punch line in analytic disguise. But... - Quotes
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Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?
Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?
The most interesting thing about the New Yorker's May 2003 profile of Slavoj Zizek was the suggestion that the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, whose mitteleuropan mug gazed out at us with an expression at once shocked and bemused, was actually a comedian. And indeed, Zizek's hyperactive video-clerk neo-Hegelianism has become something of a shtick by now, his most characteristic rhetorical move--the paradoxical switcheroo, whereby X in fact turns out to be Y inside-out--a punch line in analytic disguise. But... - Quotes
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There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people
There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people
The most interesting thing about the New Yorker's May 2003 profile of Slavoj Zizek was the suggestion that the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, whose mitteleuropan mug gazed out at us with an expression at once shocked and bemused, was actually a comedian. And indeed, Zizek's hyperactive video-clerk neo-Hegelianism has become something of a shtick by now, his most characteristic rhetorical move--the paradoxical switcheroo, whereby X in fact turns out to be Y inside-out--a punch line in analytic disguise. But...