{"id":11133,"date":"2013-05-30T21:48:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T02:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=11133"},"modified":"2013-05-31T10:47:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T15:47:10","slug":"zizek-december-2011-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/05\/30\/zizek-december-2011-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017di\u017eek december 2011 Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slavoj \u017di\u017eek: “The Animal Doesn’t Exist” (respondent: Lorenzo Chiesa)<\/a> The Human Animal in Politics, Science, and Psychoanalysis
\nOrganised by: Lorenzo Chiesa (Reader in Modern European Thought, University of Kent) and Mladen Dolar (Professor of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana; Advising Researcher, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht)\u00a0 KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 16 \u2014 17 December 2011<\/p>\n

Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n

New Guinea Tribe<\/a>
\nRejection of binary logic is a cover-up of a central antagonism<\/a> Retroactive totalization, a violent cut, a violent impostition of a totality, there is a truth in it.\u00a0 What emerges through the animal, it is only through this minimal distance of speech that retroactively we can formulate not an eternal essence of animality but the deadlock of animality.\u00a0 Redefine the notion of essence, do not reject it.<\/p>\n

UNIVERSAL and PARTICULAR<\/a>: the first antagonism is not between particularities, but universality and particular are deal with this antagonism.
\nCorporate capitalism, liberal capitalism, capitalism with Asian values.\u00a0 There are only different capitalism, but they all try to obfuscate control a central deadlock.<\/p>\n

Big Rule of Hegelian Dialectics <\/a>
\nIn each Hegelian totality or concrete universality, universality is one of its own species, it encounters itself as one of its own species.\u00a0 RABBLE, sticks out the only point of universality.\u00a0 In Rabble human as a social being exists, as an outcast universality comes to exist as such.\u00a0 A species which relates to itself as a universal being.\u00a0 What if this animal as such does exist and this is we humans.\u00a0 and this is the HORROR animals see in us.\u00a0 We are the ANIMAL for other animals.
\nAnimals are immediately caught in their environment, speechless instinct NO! this is wrong.\u00a0\u00a0 This is retroactive projection … I think that the true mystification in this standard opposition between human-animal, what effectively disappears here, what we miss is the most radical dimension of what WE humans are.
\nBecoming — Being.\u00a0 We are already constituted reason, speech and then measure animals.\u00a0 WHat this can’t think is HUMAN IN ITS BECOMING, it can’t think human from animal standpoint.<\/p>\n

Psychoanalysis:\u00a0 Zupancic Freudian DRIVE which is NOT YET CULTURE BUT NO LONGER ANIMAL INSTINCT<\/a>.
\nNot animal life but not yet human culture.\u00a0 Meillassoux After Finitude.\u00a0 Alenka elaborated a nice Lacanian answer to Meillassoux.\u00a0 NON-ALL Meillassoux reads in the masculine logic.\u00a0 You get a more provocative result if you read contingency along the FEMININE LOGIC OF SEXUATION. Contingency is non-all, precisely because you can’t totalize it through exception.<\/p>\n

Fossils: Transcendental Kantian legacy can’t provide clear answer to status of FOSSILS.\u00a0 If you take this ontologically seriously, it refers before transcendental horizon.\u00a0 Meillassoux demonstrates transcendental tricks don’t work here.\u00a0 If we want to isolate the dimension Darwin didn’t see, I would like to rehabilitate, who said regarding fossils, that God planted those fossils. \u00a0 \u00a0 And \u017d wants to dialectically incorporate this story<\/a>
\nThe true problem brings us to object (a).\u00a0 The true problem is not the fossil out there, was there life on earth before human beings, the true fossil are human beings, we are UNABLE TO SEE OURSELVES IN BECOMING.\u00a0\u00a0 The problem is we cannot see ourselves as in-itself as it were.\u00a0\u00a0 Its easy to claim tha we Christians can’t read pagan religions we reduce them to our perspective, you miss what Judaism is … what we miss even more what was Christ before he became a Christian, are we aware what a MONSTROSITY JESUS CHRIST WAS FOR THE JEWS.\u00a0\u00a0 We have to see the past in its BECOMING.\u00a0 What was Christ before he became a Christian.<\/p>\n

Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n

The whole of Christianity as an instution is not a fight against paganism but its own excess, the struggle of being human is not fight against animal nature, but fight against EXCESS that marks our break with NATURE.\u00a0 There is a wonderful text in Kant about education and humans, to control their excess.\u00a0 Man is an ANIMAL WHO NEEDS A MASTER.\u00a0\u00a0 Only humans have a certain WILD UNRULINESS.
\nThe BRUTALITY IS THE FREUDIAN DRIVE, not animal nature.\u00a0 We are not fighting animal nature, we are fighting the Freudian Drive.<\/p>\n

The excess that needs to be explained is the OTHER SIDE of what we humans are in ourselves, what was lost the moment we got caught in our ideological self-perception.
\nI diagree with vulgar Darwinians when they look for solution in what human mind can do its complexities, talk, infinitesimal mathametics.\u00a0 No begin with Badiou, what defines a WORLD, are not its positive features, but the way a structure of a world relates to its OWN INHERENT POINT OF IMPOSSIBILITY<\/a>.\u00a0 the true changes in world, are changes in the status of this impossibility.<\/p>\n

Square root of minus one, before it was dismissed as nonsense.\u00a0 Even Marx said this, dismisses this.\u00a0 But revolution of math, even if square root of minus one, even if nonsensical you can integrate it and it functions.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What is great about democracy, it takes traumatic impossibility, my God throne is EMPTY …Leader dies, VOID must be filled immediately, Democracy integrates it, and makes it the instrument of its relative stability.\u00a0 Capitalism, the impossibility of stability, makes it the very mode of its functioning.\u00a0 WHAT IF WE SHOULD LOOK for what makes us Humans, at this level, not at what we can do, but a changed status of what we can’t do, the changed status of impossibility.<\/p>\n

How is it we humans obsessively care again and again about something with NO ADAPTIVE VALUE?<\/p>\n

Objective reality is ontologically not-all<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 I’m totally materialist.\u00a0 Quantum physics, reality in-itself is not fully ontologically constituted, there are gaps in reality.\u00a0\u00a0 I would like to supplement Alain Badiou, his quote is problematic, his english theoretical writings.\u00a0 Where does Event come from if all there is is the order of Being?<\/p>\n

An event is nothing but the part of a given situation, a fragment of Being.\u00a0 If an event is nothing but a fragment of Being, why asks \u017d can we not describe it as such.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is Badiou’s Kantianism.\u00a0 We are only free from our finitude, Kant tries to imagine what would happen to us if we gained full access to thing-in-itself.\u00a0 We would turn into puppets.\u00a0 So our freedom and ethical activity only emerges from standpoint of our finitude.\u00a0 That’s Kant.\u00a0 If event is nothing but fragment of being, why can’t we then reduce it to Being.\u00a0 Badiou says because of our finitude.\u00a0 Z says no, its because Being in incomplete, you must introduce the non-all of BEING.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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