[lit-ideas] Re: sZ
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 15:36:46 +0200
He ran for the Liberal Democratic Party in 1990, unsuccessfully. However,
the LDP won the majority in the Parliament, and became the ruling party for
some years. It was political engagement, not some kind of dissident
activity. There were no Gulags awaiting him.
O.K.
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 11:17 AM, palma <palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> zizek a political opposition party (with less success that Badiou...)
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> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
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>> There was hardly any political repression - in the form of political
>> arrests, censorship and other stuff that would normally be meant by that
>> term - going on in Yugoslavia from approximately the student protests in
>> 1968., which managed to induce the regime to adopt a more tolerant policy.
>> Žižek was born in 1947., so he would have been too young to fight
>> repression much earlier than that. It is possible that he participated in
>> the student protests in 1968. Tito eventually said that 'the students were
>> right' and many of those who participated in the student protests went on
>> to become members of the Communist Party. Žižek himself became a respected
>> academic under the Communist regime.
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>> O.K.
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>> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
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>>> What was the political repression against which Zizek fought, and in
>>> which country ? I don't think that there were any particular political
>>> restrictions in the former Yugoslavia in the 1980s in place to repress
>>> post-structuralist academic philosophy. Foucault was translated and
>>> published, for example. Moreover, Zizek was supposedly a Communist, or at
>>> least a Marxist.
>>>
>>> O.K.
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>>> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 2:16 PM, palma <palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>> alas not the delicate persiflage of Barthes, but Zizek.
>>>> a minor clown who got late into the scene for the political repression
>>>> in his country, against which he valiantly fought. then subsumed, Marx
>>>> would say by the bullshit of media, lacan, robespierre "light", etc.
>>>> a colossal waste of clean sheet
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>>>> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 11:36 AM, <cblists@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>>> On 03 Jul 2014, at 22:43, Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > ...
>>>>> > A colleague suggested that I am not 'doing' philosophy properly,
>>>>> > drawing on the following as a guide for how it's done.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/a_shirtless_slavoj_zizek_explains_the_purpose_of_philosophy_from_the_comfort_of_his_bed.html
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>>>>> I don't know what to think about Žižek (which is perhaps a polite way
>>>>> of avoiding saying something negative). I like the epithet "clown prince
>>>>> of
>>>>> academic superstardom" (and think that perhaps he does, too).
>>>>>
>>>>> About Žižek's “Philosophy does not solve problems ... The duty of
>>>>> philosophy is not to solve problems, but to redefine problems, to show how
>>>>> what we experience as a problem is a false problem. If what we experience
>>>>> as a problem is a true problem, then you don’t need philosophy ... [just]
>>>>> good science.”
>>>>>
>>>>> My response is to remind Žižek - and others - is the reminder that
>>>>> what we now call 'science' was once known as 'natural philosophy', and is
>>>>> 'good' only when those 'roots' - or 'foundations' - are clearly
>>>>> acknowledged and (to stretch the metaphors) regularly examined for
>>>>> 'disease' and 'structural defects'.
>>>>>
>>>>> Chris Bruce, in
>>>>> Kiel, Germany
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