Lmao

after reading lacan for the past 2 weeks i now have a whole new interpretation to all zizek jokes i have seen before.

Can you guys recommend me a book of lacan?

@@404infinity No. I have never read "Lacan." I even pronounce "Lacan" like "Bacon" but with an L.

Good first draft of a video. The script and/or your reading of it in places needs an edit.

"yuhhh yuhhh yuhh yuhh. So here its included the cancer u get bc its zero which means instead of sugar u get all those sweeteners."

Notice, that he only has coke and ice tea

@@epochphilosophy Did mah men just found pure ideology on some faking juice.

My ideology is just really really liking orange juice.

@@epochphilosophy 3:33 - 3:34 theres a skip that may be unwanted and unnoticed. also 15:43 - 15:44

You and me alike.

Thus it has ever been.

that's because the human mind works through metaphors and you shouldn't be expected to know concepts that are novel before the are explained through various means

That's how everybody, including philosophers, come to understand philosophy. When the analogies become really familiar and build on each other, it gives the appearance of "direct" engagement.

I’ve almost finished Sublime Object and each paragraph starts with me waiting for a Žižek analogy that makes sense of the preceding 3-4 lines.

this was reallllly dense for a layman like me.

I apologize if some stuff was more obscure than expected. If there is anything you need help understanding, pop in our discord and message me. I would love to help out if needed. More than happy to help!

This was really well done. Bravo.

I made some videos that explain this phenomenon within the context of the alt-right. It's basically almost Baudrillardian, how these people act.

@@epochphilosophy i did join the discord. But I don't even know what to ask. It's not like not understanding, but more like some unfamiliar terms got me confused. that's the same i guess, idk lol?

Thank you so much. I second that with Pills. The dude is the final dark souls boss of theory-tube.

Are you talking about plastic pills?

Sadly KZfaq is not about to let that happen

I don't know what that means, but I wish I did. I feel relieved now, thanks mate!

As in, this KZfaq video did the reading for you so you can drink some fucking fruit juice instead lmao

interpassivity brother, youtube channels digest the theory so you never have to

I like to think it's like when you watch a Veritasium video about general relativity. Will you be able to solve Einstein's equations or read technical papers about the subject? Of course no, not even close. But at least now we, the layperson, have a better idea of what it is and the impact it has in the universe.

commenting to seek validation in this decision?

and so on and so forth

I truly wish I could reply to every comment on my videos, but comments like these I have to. Thank you so much. It truly takes my heart, soul and wallet to make these videos. But, I wouldn't have it any other way. Truly, these comments make it more than worth it.

野生super y 🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏻‍♂️oh you want to know more about slavoj zizek too

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Lmao an unexpected encounter Your fan from Hong Kong :)

Welcome to Zizek, friend.

Thanks so much, friend. Comments like these mean the world.

It can be easy to lapse into simply subsuming a new idea with one you already know just because there are some surface-level similarities, especially when the new idea is introduced through a summarized, easily digestible video, but I'd advise not to do that.

Comments like this warm my heart. That is the whole goal, to change our subjectivity, yeah? Thanks so much for the kind words.

Nobody wants to hear their lives suck, unless they really suck.

I blame capitalism

it’s been a while since i’ve studied his philosophy and the surrounding field, so i’m gonna shoot from the memory of what i think i learned lol; just dont shoot me. for Žižek, “subject” is a concept for a specific-i’m not sure what else to call it otherwise-place: “subject”, the concept, points to a certain place, that is, a “gap” (Žižek’s preferred term) in an only-seemingly-smooth system (ideological systems, economic configurations, social and political fields). “gap”, which i believe is intimately tied with the (Hegelian) notion of “negativity”, maybe difficult to understand, and i may be missing the mark here, but the way it makes sense to me atm is that it refers to the incompleteness and imperfection of various systematic fields, such as the ones i’ve mentioned. i’m understanding this as explaining, or rather, also being explained by, the common sense use of the word “subjective”: heterogeneity of position, variety of viewpoints, differences in opinion, so called freedom of individual thought, the reality that we are not totally robots nor totally governed by “animal nature”, all of that is made possible by a faulty and imperfect “system”, and subject is the name for that place where a taken-for-granted system fails to complete its own circle. put another way, subject, or maybe rather what is “our” subject(ivity), appears at that self-reflexive point where we are not simply guided by a system as a puppet is, where we are not and when we realize we are not simply being commanded by a smoothly operating natural force. by this same logic, subject describes this out of jointness that appears in the fragmentations of our social, ideational space: there isn’t some perfect force nor a perfect field of ideas (ie our moral fabric) dictating our interactions and guiding our behavior. there is disparity, and subject is the name that marks this disparity or gap. i think this notion of subject as a gap can also be illustrated as a moment of pure self-awareness, a moment when we see ourselves, or better yet, when we pause and break from the uninterrupted unthought feeling of living and become aware of our surroundings (and think “wait a minute...”) i may be inaccurate about this, and maybe made things more confusing, but at this moment late at night and far from having refreshed my memory, i think “subject” is tied with “gap” and “negativity” for Žižek, and my thoughts on that is what i’ve just illustrated (i hope i get schooled on this sometime haha). hope this helps. i think we should re-read the third part of Sublime Object again though...

@@totenrique I've just started in on a deep dive into Marcus Gabriel's theory of new ontological realism and your comment got me thinking. Your use of the term field of ideas, field of economy, etc., made me think of Gabriel's concept of fields of sense just due to plain word association. I wonder if your explanation of the Zizekian Subject as a gap in particular fields could translate at all into a subject for Gabriel as a gap in a field of sense, or if there could be any relations between either theories. I know they have both written a book on German Idealism together so maybe a proper Zizekian reading of Gabriel or vice-versa is possible. I don't know enough yet about what constitutes a Subject for Gabriel yet to know of this could be plausible or not. This is off topic but I couldn't help to wonder about this when you started on about gaps in fields.

This is one of his easier books 🙄

What PhD are you doing that you get to study this kind of thing? Philosophy? Sociology? Political Sci? Cheers...

@@Caaaaspeeer this is the kind of research i'd do in my dream life, which i'm unable to reach atm, but someday ... peace

That first read is something else, yeah? TSOOI deserves a couple reads.

yes, they are both constructions, subject to revisions

Thanks so much!

Hey, I appreciate that so much. Zer0 Books is awesome, though. I definitely put my heart and soul into these videos. But, despite the work, I wouldn't have it any other way! If you really enjoy this stuff, maybe consider pledging a couple bucks a month on Patreon. Keeps the lights on for a broke college student like myself: www.patreon.com/epochphilosophy

Epoch Philosophy i could tell, i was really surprised that this was not from a source as “legitimate” as zer0 books, I can’t wait to read this book. And yeah broke college student life sucks, only in America the richest country, are 52% of 18-29 year olds living with their parents. I think that sums up how difficult it is to live alone in America at a young age. But of course ideology says that we are just lazy! I’m gunna check out more videos I’ll definitely hit up your patreon. Also out of curiosity, what do you study? I’m assuming you’re in America, I’m also a college student and I’ve just been taking classes at a community college and really want to take classes on philosophy or Marxism. Good classes on the former are hard to find and classes on the latter are basically non existent. You might not even have a degree relating to either but I’m just curious. Anyways I appreciate the content I’m definitely Gunna watch some more and subscirbe

@@fuzzydunlop4513 Appreciate that my friend! But, I graduated from a community college before university. The way to go in the states tbh. That is true. Prospects are dismal for us. Recently lost my research job too as my state cut education hard. But, I actually am on my last year for a political science and history double major. But, I got heavy into philosophy and theory as I really started to dislike political science. (Incredibly ideological, super neo-liberal, some of the most stupid academics I have met, and just overall a really bad field.)

@@epochphilosophy Just saw this, thanks for your reply. I'm now reminded to subscribe to your Patreon, sorry to hear that about your job, that fucking sucks hope you're managing. I feel that about political science, I'm taking a macroeconomics class and contradictions are brought up all the time. "Is it possible to have zero unemployment" YES!!! Just not in capitalism. What has been your process for learning philosophy and theory, I'm 22 and after fucking my life and not caring about anything for the first 20-21 years of my life, I got into philosophy and marxism. I found when I wasn't going to school, that I had so much more time to read and was wondering how you've been able to balance school and your interests in philosophy

Hey, man. Appreciate bearing through the ads till the end. That helps support the channel. But, funny that it also brings context to the video, yeah?

@@epochphilosophy Indeed. If I were a "stupid Jungian" (SZ) I might think it was Synchronicity. It's not.

Lol, this comment describes my own experience nearly perfectly. I was given this book years and years ago and i read it and i feel that i learned a lot but i knew that i only understood very little. Since then ive watched and listened to a lot of Zizeks work and i still dont understand half of it. The man is just soooo cool. His debate vs jordan peterson was epic. JP was totally outed as a phony

Thank you so much, friend. That is the whole goal: to create a resource that allows people to explore these works in a easier and more efficient manor. Consider pledging a couple bucks on Patreon a month if you want to see more. This is how I keep the lights on: www.patreon.com/epochphilosophy

Appreciate it my dude.

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Thank you! Super glad. But, completely resonate with your last critique. My scripting process has TOTALLY changed and I very seldomly repeat words like I used to. This was a problem for me early on lol.

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Lol, don't we all

And every time he says “ultimately”, lol

Yo thanks so much!

Oh no you challenged the Christ figure

from what i understand, the last 2 minutes of the truman show (how he escape to start live his true life) can serve as a very REAL pun intended, metaphor to how the structure of the state apparatus functions. even though its a "happy ending " trueman hasnt escaped the control put on him. he just entered the macrocosm of the macrocosm he was trapped in.