Sadly it's just a re-release from a couple a years ago. 😢 BUT! Happily there legitimately is new Zizek, he just wrapped up his latest American tour. He did a panel with Norman Finkelstein, a discussion with Cornel West, a lecture at Seton, and probably some other things I don't know 😆 this was all this month April 2024

*nose honk*

4 month old but still Žižek

Is your babe the eternal void of the comments section?

@@scoon2117that’s how I think the comment was meant to be read, us being lost men, incels and so on and so on

Yes because those are not mutually exclusive things! Just as the feminist movement showed us women are not either sexual creatures or mothers, they are both and more. 😊

Grooming the young to give up.

Pure cocaine. 🎉

Princeton in 2022 as part of a lecture series on "Universality & its Glitches".

Great point! Arrival is a beautiful, serious film that condenses complex ideas about the structure and possibilities of language to fit a two hour narrative but doesn’t cop out with typical Hollywood non-science. It may take more than one viewing to really get it, it did for me. Which was ok because it is so visually and aurally beautiful and the acting is good. The heptapods are the most unique extra-terrestrials in the history of cinema.

Absolutely. I've been studying him since 2012 and he never ceases to blow my mind with his incredible knowledge and insight. But make no mistake, his talks are just the tip of the iceberg. The true cream is in his books.

Right from the start Zizek is off the mark. "Why do people then have such an issue with aspects of T claims (sure, he says LGBTQ+, but the reality is that gays and lesbians are not the ones making demands about changing laws, redefining words etc., that's all on the T activists) - the issue is that demanding feelings should override physical realities in legal matters, single-sex spaces etc. A male claiming he "feels like a woman" cannot even define WHAT that supposed feeling is, what he is basing his evaluation on, what standard he is measuring himself against to conclude he "isn't actually a man but is instead a woman", even though being a man simply means being an adult human male, it says absolutely nothing about how anyone should behave, dress, think - except to the brainwashed activist, who thinks there are some sort of rules for how men or women are allowed to be, because they think living up to the sexist stereotypes in society associated with either sex are some sort of real boundaries and requirements for being a man or woman - and they then take this egregiously distorted understanding and project it unto others, acting as if society/other people is what is restricting them, never realising that it is they themselves doing the restricting, but because this is happening at a subconscious level and they refuse to engage in therapy or question their own beliefs in any way they are essentially running away from the actual solution, stuck in the very left-hemisphere perspective of thinking if they only push even more in the direction they are going they will "win" or find happiness etc. Demanding that "feeling like a woman" should grant a MALE individual access to female privileges, spaces, activities, IS an unreasonable demand, and it IS very literally a narcissistic demand that an individual's feelings should allow them to disregard physical reality, a self-centred delusional belief that they are somehow above the physical facts of life and should not have to be restricted by physical reality - it is total nonsense and should be called out as such.

I've been saying the same for years. Glad he caught up.

​@ambientjohnny you wrote that on the internet, not sure if you realised.

@@DJWESG1 Nice argument you got there teenager.

But wait a minute! ...What if your refusal to watch was the very submission you had disavowed ?

Cynical but true

So organic and GMO is ideal.

No one can be "born in the wrong body", our brains ARE our body just as much as any other part of it. We are the sex we are, regardless of what our personal relationship is with the sexist stereotypes in society. "Trans" ideology, is regressive and sexist, as there is no "correct way" of being a boy or girl, man or woman, all those terms do is indicate sex and stage of maturity - decoupling sex and gender and trying to make gender into this ludicrous concoction of personality and sexist stereotypes is beyond regressive - it actively harms people who buy into it - the idea that there is something wrong with a kid's body that needs to be chemically altered because they believe living up to sexist stereotypes is some real measure of whether they are a boy or a girl (and man or woman for adults obviously), is insanity. I have asked hundreds of "activists" and "allies" to explain what they are measuring themselves against to determine that they have a need to transition - NOT ONE person has been able to articulate what that is - not one person is able to distance themselves sufficiently to realise that THEY are the ones with a regressively sexist idea of what it means to be a boy/girl or man/woman and that that is the issue causing all the problems - their own misunderstanding and severely limited perspective/sexist misunderstanding of what sexist stereotypes/"gender norms" actually entail - they are not rules, they are not real boundaries, they are regressive ideas and generalisations - no one needs to live up to any such utter nonsense or feel comfortable with those stereotypes to be a boy/girl/man/woman - all those terms represent, and all they should represent, is sex and stage of maturity - by creating this whole "gender identity" nonsense, THAT IS WHAT CAUSES ALL THE DISTRESS, THIS FABRICATION OF A FRAMEWORK WHICH DISTORTS REALITY. No one - NO ONE - in the movement has been able to explain or articulate what this supposed "womanly essence" or "manly essence" is that they feel/know/need to transition in order to represent etc. actually is - yet you all actively believe in it and push for it to be accepted. That is ludicrous.

What community??

Worth debating. Can you prove that personal trauma isn't involved ? I claim, for most gender transitions this is factually true.

​@farrider3339 i mean, i can only provide personal anecdotes, since proofs are a matter of logic and math, but i know (most of my frieds are lgbt) trans people who grew up in very supportive homes and schools, and i really didn't saw any signs of trauma, and i really don't have any positive reason to believe there was trauma for them. The same goes for the transition process, which for most of them never involved any surgery or other traumatic experiences. In addition to that, even if i grant that most gender transitions in general do involve trauma, i would argue that this trauma is often due to unsupportive environments and other factors.

Maybe he was stating trauma in a broader sense. Even with the proper support, a gender transition is full of micro traumas. The sense of "being in a wrong body" per si is traumatic in a sense

Feeling like you are the wrong gender is traumatizing for anybody. Of course transitioning stems from personal trauma. Transitioning is trauma in itself, given the physical and biological procedures the body is put through to. You might say it's a means to and end. But that's irrelevant

@@gabri41200 as I unterstand trauma and human psyche, one has to look deeper. The idea of identity itself already is traumatic since it is supposed to be something reliable in a highly volatile environment. We have to start asking here. Zizek himself does NOT "believe" in identity, same way I looked through the charade of the introduction of identity. And we all know that trying to solve the ambiguity of identity on a biological level by changing sides or stating 'no side' doesn't solve the issue at its core. And to be even more provocative : a supportive environment can trigger another trauma. Which one ? That of recognition and integration. Sorry, I don't have time now to develop this further.

What did philosophers do in Athens?

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@@IvoMaropo you wont think it's funny after you read Miguel Serrano

You are precisely right. Zizek is way off the mark here. Essentially we have a whole phenomena, this T stuff, where people who buy into it collectively reject/refuse the notion that they have deeply rooted issues to work through, refuse to consider their own perspective is actually the false/limited one, and boatloads of projection. It's all a load of superficial nonsense to justify confronting their emotional immaturity and their own highly disruptive and limiting biases.

@@ambientjohnny its a bunch of kabbalistic nonsense, you are correct.