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08 May 09
Adam Crowe'“The problem is today that when you have chaos and disorder people lose their cognitive mapping. So it is an open struggle as to whose interpretation will win,” he says. “Never forget that this is how Hitler won.” -- What particularly intrigues Žižek is
storytelling metanarratives postmodernism criticism ideology cynicism precuperation philosophy praxis do reflexivity SlavojŽižek
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10 Mar 09
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09 Mar 09
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07 Mar 09
Jack StephensInteresting and off the wall (in different directions) interview.
žižek postmodernism marxism capitalism news europe stalin communism
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the financial crisis has killed off the liberal utopianism that flourished after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and all the grand talk about the “end of history”. The terrorist attacks of September 2001 and the financial meltdown have exploded the myth that the market economy and liberal democracy have all the answers to all the questions.
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But even if capitalism is temporarily repaired, Žižek says, this will do nothing to resolve its inherent contradictions.
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Titanic
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“And then, after his job is done, he can f*** off and disappear. He is – what I would call in theory – a pure vanishing mediator. It is not a love story. It is vampiric, egotistic exploitation.”
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“Stalinism reacted against these negative dystopias that were even more terrifying. Stalinism was, in that sense, a return to normal life. People forget that.”
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tezcat tlatlahqui"In communist times when people who told seemingly subversive jokes only succeeded in spreading cynicism and indifference, which was exactly what the party nomenklatura needed to sustain their rule."
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