{"id":12161,"date":"2013-10-13T11:23:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T16:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=12161"},"modified":"2013-10-13T13:56:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T18:56:26","slug":"12161","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/10\/13\/12161\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017di\u017eek at irreverent best"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u017di\u017eek at Loyola University 2009.<\/a><\/p>\n

For our struggle it is not against flesh and blood but against world rulers, against spiritual wickedness in the heavens. Our struggle is not against concrete corrupted individuals but against those in\u00a0 power in general.<\/p>\n

Critique of Ideology<\/a><\/p>\n

Abstract propositions (freedom, democracy) ideology is the very density of symbolic network, schematizes these abstract propositions, renders them liveable, provides concrete background, so they become liveable.<\/p>\n

Obscene rituals<\/strong><\/p>\n

Army one big obscenity, improvisation, but what appears to be secret resistance to power, obscenity etc, no, this is how power is experienced.\u00a0 Harry Frankfurt wrote a book on bulls**t.\u00a0 Do you have an example of politician who doesn’t b.s. He said John McCain.<\/p>\n

When we are in ideology up to our knees. During a\u00a0 public debate with Bernard Henri Levi<\/a><\/p>\n

When we both our case in these abstract terms we both couldn’t but agree with each other.\u00a0 This means that we were in ideology. We obliterated this dense background.\u00a0 The whole set of unwritten rules.\u00a0 What a complex phenomenon rules, norms. They don’t just tell you how to act. Norms are never consistent. Whenever you want to be part of a certain collective.\u00a0 It isn’t just explicit rules, what matters even more are meta, higher level rules that tell you how to deal with the explicit rules.
\nWhen you are solicited to do something on condition that you don’t really do it.\u00a0 You are given a free choice on condition that you make the right choice.\u00a0 To give you a choice on condition that you choose right.\u00a0 One guy when it came to signing the oath, he said no, I’m not signing the oath, are you crazy you must sign it, Am I obliged, are you ordering me to sign it.\u00a0 NO!\u00a0 This is an oath, its your free choice.\u00a0 The officer then wrote on a piece of paper an order to freely sign the oath.\u00a0 Ideology, it’s never what it says, its how you relate to what it says.<\/p>\n

Spontaneous acts are not spontaneous outbursts, they are codified, precisely when you learn how to violate the explicit rules. Drinking alcohol or smoking.
\nYou cough at first, you come to enjoy it, be a man.\u00a0 It’s strictly a second level pleasure more to do with social groups, participating in collective act of transgression, if you want to drink for pure pleasure you usually go for fruit juice.<\/p>\n

Violating public rules is not done by private rules, but is enjoined by very private rules that prohibit them.<\/p>\n

Here is his critique of Sound of Music<\/a>
\nAyn Rand digression<\/a>
\nundermines ruling ideology but through over-identification. Her status is ambiguous, she is liberal capitalist individualism at its purest, but she does it so openly … she is an embarrassment.<\/p>\n

The NEIGHBOUR<\/a> He tells the story about being asked “sexual orientation.”\u00a0 Americans have their levels of comfort, Europeans have theirs. He then goes on to give the Santner story about a beach on Adriatic coast topless beach.\u00a0 The point is that each culture for you its not a problem sexual orientation, but much more difficult for women to walk topless. What Santner feared is FEAR OF NEIGHBOUR.\u00a0 The desiring other of jouissance that invades …. Hard core porn. You either have serious story and can’t see it all, or see it all but story is ridiculous.\u00a0 Breillat seriously artistic hardcore, you see everything and same time engaging story … Today the predominant porn is Gonzo. They no longer even pretend its a story. But censorship is even more here than ever, its like you have to be reminded all the time, no its just a joke, we’re just filming, the fear is precisely the FEAR of the NEIGHBOUR, if you had to fear that there is real desire, that is the NEIGHBOUR, that dimension has to be repressed.<\/p>\n

Keeping Neighbour at a Distance.<\/p>\n

customs habits rules of civility.\u00a0 Political correctness<\/a>
\nIndonesian Documentary:<\/a> 1966 President Sukharo ethnic political cleansing. Boast about their killing. Talk about most efficient and pleasurable way to kill, there is no shame. They appear on a talk show.
\nWhile they were torturing and killing, they liked Cagney and Hollywood gangster actors. Which fantasmatic screen made it possible for guys like this to do what they were doing. What kind of society are we living in, where even minimal public shame is disappeared. Even Nazi Germany had shame, they denied everything. Here they have no shame, they admit everything.
\nDislocating effects of capitalist globalization: what kinds of obscenities and shamelessness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u017di\u017eek at Loyola University 2009. For our struggle it is not against flesh and blood but against world rulers, against spiritual wickedness in the heavens. Our struggle is not against concrete corrupted individuals but against those in\u00a0 power in general. Critique of Ideology Abstract propositions (freedom, democracy) ideology is the very density of symbolic network, … Continue reading “\u017di\u017eek at irreverent best”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12161"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12163,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161\/revisions\/12163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}