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07 Mar 09

FT.com / Columnists / Lunch with the FT - Lunch with the FT: Slavoj Žižek

Interesting and off the wall (in different directions) interview.

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Zizek is quite the interesting intellectual. A little too weird for me, but, he is quite useful in certain areas; especially in pop-culture and such. - jackstephens on 2009-03-07

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.
But even if capitalism is temporarily repaired, Žižek says, this will do nothing to resolve its inherent contradictions.
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- Titanic
- “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.”
- “Stalinism reacted against these negative dystopias that were even more terrifying. Stalinism was, in that sense, a return to normal life. People forget that.”

02 Mar 09

Robocop: A discussion of Taylorism through the works of Marx and Haraway « The 50 Megaton Paper Tiger

"In the next week or two I’ll be working on some entries about the Robocop films. I decided to analyze the movies through the theoretical contexts of Karl Marx’s Alienation of Labor and Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto. Good “light” reading if I do say

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