Slavoj Žižek on the Matrix, #2 - The Diigo Meta page

• 18 Oct 11
  

  anthony warnick
• 23 Feb 11
  

  Peter Kittle

  Piece by Zizek in the days following 9/11/01 that shows amazing prescience--but relates in interesting ways to the need for a philosophy to be in place so that "bad" (for lack of a better term) decisions can be avoided.

  zizek constructions identity philosophy distributedidentity

  • It is when we watched on TV screen the two WTC towers collapsing,   that it became possible to experience the falsity of the "reality   TV shows": even if this shows are "for real," people still act in   them - they simply play themselves. The standard disclaimer in a   novel ("characters in this text are a fiction, every resemblance   with the real life characters is purely contingent") holds also   for the participants of the reality soaps: what we see there are   fictional characters, even if they play themselves for the real.
• 30 Sep 08
  

  Sarah Zurhellen

  theory media philosophy politics Zizek violence terrorism crisis

• 15 Aug 08
  

  Flavio Ensiki

  terrorism politics philosophy media real reality

• 19 Jan 08
  

  Nathan Rein

  Another Žižek essay, "Welcome to the Desert of the Real," from 2001. Also on my reading list. Looks more closely at the images of violence and devastation and their role in the popular, post-9/11 imagination.

  !toread 9-11 commentary criticism del.icio.us_import film politics popular_culture psychology violence

• 18 Jun 07
  

  Scott Leslie

  kick out the jams, motherfucker

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• 26 Oct 06
  

  barrysaunders

  Zizek academic

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