{"id":10522,"date":"2013-03-04T13:26:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T18:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=10522"},"modified":"2013-03-05T14:26:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T19:26:55","slug":"z-in-south-korea-june-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/03\/04\/z-in-south-korea-june-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017d in south korea june 2012 buddha buddhism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zizek Lecture \u00a0in South Korea Kyung Hee University in June 27 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

Q and A Zizek in South Korea Kyung Hee University in June 27 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

Universality is Universality of Struggle<\/a>
\nSymbolic Castration<\/a>
\nFather confused impotent person, but his symbolic identity you respect him
\nFamous Ninotchka Joke:<\/a> Coffee Without Cream\/Run Out of Cream\/Only\u00a0Have Milk\/Coffee Without Milk
\nWhat you don’t have (negativity) is part of your identity. What is missing is part of your identity. Coffee without what it is.
\nI don’t drink coffee, that’s ok, I don’t have any. Today, the way ideology works today, is not as a direct lie, in the sense it directly tells something not true, ideology lies in not in what it says, it lies it says what it says, by generating in us implicit meaning, while it relies on the opposite meaning. To use the example of coffee, it is giving us coffee w\/o milk, but it claims it is giving us coffee w\/o cream. Be attentive to these implicit meanings, what is said w\/o being said. In Europe, austerity, when those in power want to impose people austerity measures, they pretend they are offering coffee w\/o milk, when they are really offering coffee w\/o cream. Why is this so important?<\/p>\n

– Hegelian Totality<\/a>
\nprecisely a totality of what there is, and what there is not.\u00a0 in true dialectical analysis, the point is not to include particular events in larger harmonious totality, the point is not to look at phenomena isolated, look holistically, this is NOT enough, but include in concept all its failures and so on, take capitalism, to take it\u00a0as a totality, it is not enough to say as a system it is good,\u00a0NO we should look at\u00a0all those points where it fails, inside a country and outside, i.e., APPLE as a country, oooh, see it\u00a0as a success, but we say NO Apple without FOXCON.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0or take the CONGO.\u00a0 It is a state that is immensely mineral rich but the state doesn’t funciton, you simply have local warlords and directly deal with foreign companies.\u00a0\u00a0 Congo is not developed\u00a0enough to be part of\u00a0global capitalism NO.\u00a0\u00a0 There are child warriors, as such as this hell on earth, CONGO IS PART OF TODAY’S GLOBAL CAPITALISM.\u00a0 global capitalism is also the dark side.
\nSouth Korea: One of your big companies, had intentions to buy all arable land in Madagascar. throw out local farmers. This is global capitalism. A proper dialectical analysis begins, you have a ideal universal notion, then look at failures and non-intended by-products, the dialectic will show these failures are NECESSARY failures, all mistakes, antagonisms are part of the UNIVERSAL NOTION.<\/p>\n

The category which is more and more becoming crucial is the category of UNEMPLOYMENT<\/a>
\nIn standard Marxist story: Exploitation.\u00a0 But today the unemployed are becoming more and more crucial, not just RESERVE ARMY.\u00a0 but\u00a0 the forever UNEMPLOYABLE.\u00a0 Whole countries, Somalia, Congo, or whole regions in countries, in a sense Unemployed, excluded from world markets, you\u00a0have people in advance that are Unemployable.\u00a0\u00a0Millions of students\u00a0who study, but realize there is no chance they will get a job in the domain of their studies.\u00a0 We have somehow to expand the Domain of Proletarians.\u00a0 It is NOT just who\u00a0work and exploited, it is those who are not working.\u00a0 Capitalism is more and more generating NECESSARY UNEMPLOYMENT.<\/p>\n

Why don’t we see this more clearly?\u00a0 This shows the strength of the ruling hegemonic ideology.\u00a0 The omniprescence of anti-capitalism, look at any popular media, you have many anti-capitalist stories, but all these critiques are moralistic critiques, greedy bankers, polluting environment.\u00a0 The problem is what changed in recent capitalism, that this greed can be realized with such catastrophic consequences.\u00a0 The limit of this moralistic anti-capitalism, by blaming\u00a0people, it prevents us from doing the crucial analysis of the SYSTEM. what is wrong with the SYSTEM as such.\u00a0\u00a0 Almost everyone today is a Fukuyamist.\u00a0 Liberal democractic capitalism is the only game in town.\u00a0 All we can do is make it a little better. a little more efficient.
\nWe can easily imagine the end of the world, but a little change in capitalism we can’t imagine.<\/p>\n

class struggle: antagonism deadlock is constitutive of society
\nmulticulturalist where problem is recognition, how can we be recognized: gay, women etc.
\nI am still for BINARY logic against multiplicity of struggles.<\/p>\n

Laclau critique<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 none of these struggles have apriori central position, all strategic consideration. There is no priority<\/p>\n

Politico-economic antagonism<\/a> is not at same level of these other struggles, it has a MORE SUBSTANTIAL position, of overdetermining, structuring other struggles.<\/p>\n

Buddhism and Dalai Lama<\/a><\/p>\n

Origin of fall of Buddhism.\u00a0 Mahayama: Bhodisava, you were already there liberated, out of this compassion with humanity, you CAME back into this world of suffering, so you postponed your liberation until all others are liberated this is a SACRIFICIAL logic.\u00a0 I don’t trust anybody that is willing to sacrifice themselves for you.<\/p>\n

Communism will win<\/a> There are miracles but only for those who believe in the miracle. Communism will win means that we who are engaged in the struggle, we can read events as signs of communism: Tahir Sq. etc, are all signs that point towards a possible communism but there is no guarantee, no objective necessity, communism will win for those who believe in communism, a bit of a tautology.<\/p>\n

Truth is not a neutral objective truth.<\/a> Truth is universal: but it is nonetheless PARTIAL.\u00a0 No if you look neutrally you see nothing, you only see truth if you are interested in truth, an emancipatory truth.\u00a0\u00a0 Communism will come as an unintended consequence<\/a>\u00a0 We Chinese commies are the best managers of capitalism.\u00a0\u00a0 It less and less needs democracy. This should worry us.\u00a0 In Lacanian the gap between what you want and what you desire.\u00a0 People desire communism but they don’t want.\u00a0 What people usually desire they don’t want. People all the time think they desire something, but when they come close to it, they think its horrible and don’t want it.\u00a0 What you want is not the same is what you desire.\u00a0 Communism will come but people will not want it.<\/p>\n

Why still keep the stupid name<\/a>?<\/p>\n

on Egypt<\/a><\/p>\n

on Greece<\/a><\/p>\n

On Marx<\/a>\u00a0 To be a Marxist today, means not to return to Marx, in a radically critical way, totally reconstruct radically his analysis.\u00a0 A fundamental flaws we can see today in his notion of communism.\u00a0 His notion of communism is still a capitalism, that is, capitalism without the private property, then this wild development will continue.\u00a0 He didn’t see that this dynamism is only possible within the capitalist frame.\u00a0 Second limitation, he had ingenious insights 1848 revolution, 18th Brumaire, but in terms of analysis of power, he didn’t develop it properly.\u00a0 The horrors of 20th Century communism you can’t explain through a critical Marxism.\u00a0 Stalinism occured because communsm developed in the wrong place.\u00a0 No. This is wrong.<\/p>\n

I don’t like the term Third Way.\u00a0 If you want the Third way, what is Second way: Fascism, Communism, the Second way failed because they stayed within capitalism, total productivity, efficiency and so on.\u00a0 I don’t like to talk about the Third way because the Second way wasn’t a serious second way.\u00a0 Too much of this we have extremes and we need proper balance.\u00a0 I don’t like balance, I like extremes.<\/p>\n

on Violence:\u00a0 Hitler and Ghandi, the quote that got him in a lot of trouble<\/a><\/p>\n

Hitler was afraid to do real social change.\u00a0 Tahir Sq. they stopped the entire functioning of the state. Mubarak’s violence was a violence aimed at restoring social order.\u00a0 It’s not that we live in peaceful times and some crazy revolutionary starts violence, but what about violence in Congo?\u00a0 Structural violence, the violence that is here as part of NORMAL state of things.\u00a0 The positive violence is violence of just occupying space and preventing things from going on as normal. Ghandi was much more violent than Hitler, because his aim was to stop the state from functioning.\u00a0 It was an anti-systemic violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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