{"id":10923,"date":"2013-04-28T07:30:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T12:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=10923"},"modified":"2013-05-13T13:35:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T18:35:37","slug":"zizek-in-toronto-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/04\/28\/zizek-in-toronto-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017di\u017eek in Toronto 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u017di\u017eek in Toronto<\/a>\u00a0 Toronto 2 Oct. 2012.<\/p>\n

Gangnam Style<\/a> is exemplary of ideology today: it functions why? A quasi-religious rave experience, its not just this, its more making fun of yourself, ironic distance. Kung-fu Panda
\nThe story in itself is ridiculously melodramatic, it is the form
\nWhat if a spiritual experience itself is disgusting, even if it is authentic.<\/p>\n

Here is \u017d talking about Gangnam<\/a> in the United States at Todd McGowan’s place Oct 2012.\u00a0 IF there ever was a PURE IDEOLOGICAL phenomenon it is this.\u00a0 Rave, tech trance, repetitive.\u00a0 All the madness at Gangnam in South Korea is there.\u00a0 What fascinates me, it started as stupid song, it blew up into something SACRED.\u00a0 We haven’t seen something like this since early Beatles.\u00a0 100,000 people in a stadium all dancing.\u00a0 They refer to him as messiah.\u00a0 It’s exploding everywhere.\u00a0 The words are obviously ironic, they make fun of the scene described by the song, but today’s functioning of ideology, you can make fun of it, not believe in it, but YOU ARE CAUGHT IN IT, IT WORKS.
\nKungfu Panda: sacred warrior, it makes fun of its own ideology but it works.\u00a0 How does it functions?? How do you get caught in this song? You don’t like it … when you hear some totally disgusting song, but you can’t get rid of it .. it functions like this, my small son said it was disgusting, he ended up listening to it everyday. SINTHOME condensation of stupid enjoyment, you cannot get rid of it. This is authentically sacred. Not claiming this is false, there is ambiguity between sublime and ridicuoulsy, obsene compulsive enjoyment that is the sacred.<\/p>\n

Returns of the sacred, what is it reacting against? Today’s society in which there is less and less space for dimension of the sacred, is the way to approach stupid returns of the sacred, ok ridiculous reactions but ask: WHICH FORM OF SPIRITUALITY FITS PERFECTLY, WOULD BE IDEAL FOR OUR GLOBAL CAPITALIST society?\u00a0 Is there a form of spirituality that would fit this society perfectly. Global capitalism, bio-genetic revolutions. I claim that a version of Bhuddism fits perfectly.<\/p>\n

5<\/a> Nazi horror, transgression.
\n6<\/a> No ethnic cleansing without poetry, Levinas, Adorno, blame philosophers who do Totality, you brutally impose your vision on reality.
\n7<\/a> Edmund Burke, the revolutionaries were much more absolute, the reference to absolute can open up space of freedom
\n8<\/a> Poets, you need absolute mythic vision to function as a screen to kill people
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\n1<\/a> Cogito Ergo Sum: The mistake is at the very beginning, cogito is a process, totally non-substantial, but going to res cogitans, thing which thinks is wrong.\u00a0 Rennaisance is humanism, but lesson of Descartes, Kant, Hegel, the wealth of our personality is a mask, there is a VOID there.\u00a0 Transcendental tradition of modern philosophy, the wealth of human being is the mask of a VOID.\u00a0 I as a Cartesian am ready to sacrifice all my content, my emotions, what I can’t give away is the VOID itself.
\n2<\/a> Intelligent Cognitivists, like Daniel Dennett
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