Žižek on Death and Why Theory is the Only Thing That Matters
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- Žižek talks about theory as the only thing that matters, "I don't have the right to live, just to be alive...it has to serve theory, i cannot imagine myself getting old and just a senile retired person, i think I'd deserve to die."
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It's fascinating seeing him without the ticks
Zizek is zyzz for lacan nerds
*sniff* We'rrre all gonna make it, brrrahs, *sniff*
I’m only 50, but completely useless, wish my state had that soft Soylent Green way
Ayy, such a good movie, and as the time goes on, I find that idea of comfortable death listening to music surrounded by doctors totally painless, so appealing
So good!
Does somebody know which Marx's letter Zizek is talking about? Zizek is a bit mistaken here - Marx wrote and published the first vol. before the commune, but maybe he had in mind the second volume? I couldn't find that letter myself. If some crazy Marx obssesed nerd like me could point it out I would be very happy. It would be really interesting to follow Marx's intellectual process of writing Capital in the light of the French commune.
Yo, I can't find the letter either, I have tried to dig it up from the MEGA correspondence, but the closest thing I found was a letter from Engels to Marx in September 1870 where Engels says that if the workers revolt in Paris the Prussians will set the movement back 50 years. I found Marx, however, quite excited about the people's w*r in the Loire and sympathetic to any revolutionary movement of the workers in Paris.
On finishing 'the thing' however, there's a lot of letters where Marx complains he hasn't finished for this or that reason, but not much on how the workers will take his new canon to revolutionary ends. Marx's objectives were to study the system and deliver a theoretical blow to the bourgeoisie, to him the workers movement was set in motion by the workers themselves not by theoreticians.
I haven't finished reading the correspondence or the Civil W*r in France, but from the general tone there I would say Zizek is just full of BS on this one. Then again, Lacanians believe there's something to be learned from BS, so maybe there's something else to think about from this clip.
Nullis in verba.
I had no idea that Zizek would be in support of some kind of euthanasia, but that additional part is a weird twist: What does it mean to _"serve Theory"?_ Is it a service to some kind of Purpose?
Because if so, this is a very surprisingly Utilitarian frame to be coming from the Hegelian tradition, where Utility _isn't_ supposed to be the point of Spirit.
Can you expound on this?
You're making an error in assuming that such service can only relate to the frame of utility.
Where was utility mentioned?
Oh man can we please in like a soft way terminate Zizek when he is no longer able to do his work!? I think this is what he would have always wanted!!! XDXDXD
I kinda agree with his last point, old people should be softly killed by the state, otherwise society will only get older and more decrepit. I have always hated the idea of living on with ever diminishing faculties while I drain huge amounts of resources from the ones I love, both materially and psychologically
Would you say the same if you're young and chronically ill/disabled?
You, Zizek and the Nazis 😂
@@teoteo3522 you, the west and the ideology of unnecessary morals.
It’s easy to be sympathetic to this point on paper, but it’s not so easy when you’re looking at the wrinkles on the faces of the people who raised you, cared for you, and sacrificed their own personal pleasures in the prime of their lives to make sure you have everything you need to get on in this world.
@@CrazyLinguiniLegs I get it, but not every old person is like that, don`t romanticize
Whack take, like listening to this guy but his last point is a hard miss, even if it was for humor.