Žižek on the formally evil: unconditional love
Friday, April 13th, 2007 | Posted in love
“Assume the mistake and go to the end; this we call love.”
I buy it.
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April 13th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Hmm .. .I want to chew (mentally) on this for a bit. But amazing. Do you know the context of this video and this thought?
April 13th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
The context - as I understand, this is from a film, which I have not seen, only excerpts of it, entitled Zizek.
April 14th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
have you heard/read much of Zizek before?
April 14th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Yeah, I got a book of his from Matt - I’m enjoying it.
April 15th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
I’ve only heard a few lectures and read a few articles. You’ll have to tell me more about the book. In his lectures I found his meanderings a little tedious at times, but in the midst of his (very intentional) web of the tangental and irrelevent there are some really brilliant thoughts that gave me good reason to pause (listening to my ipod, weeding a garden bed).
April 15th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
I think I could discuss it, but I couldn’t really explain it: brilliant thoughts amid much meandering definitely characterizes his style. But I think I’m kind of attracted to that style - meandering is a bedfellow of murmuring, know?
April 17th, 2007 at 4:10 am
i do not think that zizek wants you to buy it, christo. or maybe he does, but he certainly wouldn’t be able to help himself to a little counter-intuitive theorizing on your capitalist response.
love is the guerrilla meme that unbalances the equation. the matrix got that one right.
as for his meanderings, his mannerisms, everything is intentional. he always apologizes for his stupid and simple examples, but every word is a relentless and bloodthirsty labour of love. he destroys not by ignoring or demonizing a thing, but by holding it in the vice grip of its own paradox and exposing it to savage and unflinching belief. ideas, like sock puppets, needs someone to put their hands inside, but zizek keeps shoving until their eyes pop out.
.mwj
April 17th, 2007 at 8:26 am
The sock puppet analogy is good.
I suppose I see us immersed in a marketplace of expression, where phrases and words are purchased and consumed for creative energy and agreeable excretions.
But I think I’m realizing that to “buy” something has a connotation of safe detachment in this world of 30 day exchanges and full guarantees. Buying something today is more a posture of willingness to be possessed by an object with oneself as the innocent party than an actual leap into the full assumption of responsibility and possession of the object.
I wonder what Richard Dawkins has to say about love…
June 3rd, 2007 at 1:04 am
This guy doesn’t even know what he’s talking about. Although some of his points (if you can call them that) are valid to a certain extent… well, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while. … I don’t know.. he just seems to stray too much. Maybe his written material is better, but you won’t find me reading it.