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"what a dumb trumptard am I right leftbros, unlike ME that knows about zizek, Sylvia plath (ahem ladies wink wink) and um..Marx."
"all the politicians who egged on these tea party/libertarian psychos can't say shit and now they get to suffer their gun-toting coofers. hate to bring it up again but Zizek called this one perfectly."
"On the Realignment podcast (link below), Anna cites Zizek's observation that "the obscenity of Trump is not that he lies, it's that he tells the truth." I greatly admire the Slavic penchant for pithy insights that subvert conventional wisdom (Pushkin*: "Othello is not jealous, he is trusting"), but "
"You know what I mean. Wanna try and become like a Zizek, that has some joke, story or humorous historical event to say that fits in every occasion. I feel being a dude that has interesting anecdotes to narrate, is a fun way of getting attention and making interesting conversation"
"Zizek at the top of his game."
"This recalls Žižek's dialectic of the poet and war: does war exist to safeguard the poet, the ideological dreamer whose work is subsumed into a broader cultural framework, or does the poet function as an ideological agent, legitimizing war while remaining detached from its material realities?"
"I was at my (soon to be) ex's best friend's apartment last month and notice he has a portrait of Žižek on the wall. I look at it and go, "Oh, that looks like ZHEE-zhek," hitting that hard 'E.' Instantly, this dude goes, "It's ZHI-ZHEK," he corrects me, emphasizing that soft 'E' as if his life depend"
"hate to bring it up again but Zizek called this one perfectly"
"Anna cites Zizek's observation that "the obscenity of Trump is not that he lies, it's that he tells the truth.""
"I want to to be conversational with the girls about Žižek and Lacan."
"A lot of respect for him around here, but I'm very shallow and can't get past his horrible lispy presentation. What are the big insights people like from him?"
"if you are a leftist don't feel obliged to be politically correct. Think! Think! Don't be afraid to think. [...] immediately if they don't agree with you, you are labeled a fascist. But that's the laziness."
"anna: *exaggerated vocal fry* it's like zizek says.... we should eshtablish concentration camps for black people..."
"In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit is first laid out for us to sniff and inspect for traces of illness. In the typical French toilet, on the contrary, the hole is at the back, i.e. shit is supposed to disappear as qu"
"I always get a strong bullshit feeling from both David Lynch and Slavoj Zizek. Pretty sure both of those dudes are consciously playing up at least 50% of their weirdness for attention."
"I'm in the zizek camp of using offensive humor"
"Its like when zizek didnt "destroy" peterson in the debate. Didnt dunk on his ass, and all the puritans left were mad, yet zizek won overall by placating and conceding to centrist civility shit, he quietly and easily won."
"It's this completely stupid like basically uni-cellular purely reproductive mechanism that, as [Zizek] puts it, is "neither dead nor alive""
"First Zizek, then Red Scare have both fundamentally changed the way I see things, and I have a lot of thoughts and doubts that I've ruminated on for a long time & feel really strongly. Basically just standard anti-woke fare."
"Freud is rolling in his grave. Zizek is yelling about aesthetics. This election sucks."
"Zizek says that psychotherapy is the only place in capitalism you are allowed not to 'enjoy'. With capitalism their is the Perverted duty to always enjoy things, with the exception of therapy."
"Here's Žižek's essay on it: [link]"
"I do think it is funny that people like Finkelstein and Zizek insist on debating guys whose sole qualification for being a public intellectual is having a following of dudes that don't have sex."
"Obviously not always the case e.g., Zizek but I feel the bulk of writers/artists/public intellectuals are very thin (not just normal weight)."
"i listen to lot of žižek but i want to expand my horizons."
"and that it was like maybe a weird alt spelling with the v's or whatever"
"she has read badiou and had never heard of zizek, she was perfect"
"He once argued with Zizek about immigration or something."
"Pretend you are zizek and the need to follow idols is explained in a Lacan discourse."
"a coworker questioned me about a zižek book i was reading"
"I have finally understood why Zizek brings up all the time the fact that we must beware of commodities which contain within them a redemption from whatever indulgence one is partaking (diet soda, juul pods, decaf coffee, etc.)"
"Zizek loves talking about the concept of the Day After The Revolution, when the rage and jubilation and triumph recede and the boring technical work of putting together a contemporary bureaucratic society begins"
"Zizek said something along the lines of "that's the two girls, yes? Yeah, yeah, yeah""
"And now I read Scott Alexander's absolutely fucking stupid AI future prediction, where he thinks by 2030 world leaders are going to be consulting superhuman gAI for statecraft purposes."
"Wanna try and become like a Zizek, that has some joke, story or humorous historical event to say that fits in every occasion."
"He will make some joke about the gulags and Peterson (who's eyes had been watering the whole time) is going to start crying."
"write a ridiculous number of books/albums, many of which even diehard fans have never read or listened to"
"They might not know who Zizek is, or be able to show you modern Iranian architecture."
"Reminds me of that thought experiment from zizek where he posits the perfect date would be where the man would bring a Dildo, the woman a flashlight, and they would set up a contraption that has the toys fucking each other, allowing the man and woman to avoid the underlying tension of sex and just t"
"I'm an old critic of multiculturalism" - Slavoj Žižek"
"I'd like to keep notes on who Dasha & Anna read....Camille Paglia, Slovoj Zizek etc."
"Watch starting at 1:35:45"
"I had a nose job a couple days ago and I got so light headed seeing zizek sniff and touch his nose that I had to lay down and I passed out for like 10 minutes there"
"I think it's pretty zizeky, Hegel something Lacan blah blah Freud, whatever he would say to that. Do you guys have some more jokes for zizek or ones that he could have conceivably told but didn't?"
"Zizek, Jordan Peterson, Noam, etc.
I just want hot goss. What were they like?"
"A Slovenian in sweaty Walmart-clothes, pretending to read from an empty sheet of paper covered in his own grease and cum, DESTROYED that arrogant three-piece suit wearing, Hegel-googling, semi-educated Canadian imposter with wit, humor and non-chalance"
"A few months ago I came across a short gif where Zizek is giving a talk, and someone asks him about sex. Zizek's answer to the guy is like "girl should be on her knees, reading a book and pretending to be interested while man does bam bam from behind," and I can't for the life of me fucking find the"
"Not that there isn't an audience for sophisticated art or commentary now but it's not like the Peterson vs Zizek debate of a few years back was on Jimmy Kimmel or even Tavis Smiley or something when in the past they'd be duking it out on Tom Snyder or David Frost or hell, even Merv Griffin."
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