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A Reply To Žižek

Žižek has recently discussed Elon Musks Neuralink project, he gave the standard description of the situation, stressing with the usual drama that it means the death of communication. If our brains are connected by a wire, we have access to the contents of our thoughts without the mediating function of communication. The structural rules of ...

30 September, 2020

AI, Elon Musk, freedom, Hegel, history, mind, Neuralink, subject, Zizek

Philosophy

Peep!

I saw a brilliant movie the other day. It featured a highly sophisticated critique of both the prevailing intellectualism and the corporately hijacked political elite. Its protagonists presented in part woolly, but mostly toothy arguments supporting the view that our system is undeniably adrift and we are headed for imminent disaster.

The name of the movie ...

26 July, 2012

Continental Drift, Eddie, Film, Ice Age, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Jensen, List of Ice Age characters, Ray Romano, resistance, Weasel, Zizek

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What do I think about Zizek?

What is he thinking?As a learned philosopher with a funny blog, I should have an opinion or two about the Thinking Beast of Ljubljana, the populist, famous, celebrated, roaring, one and only, please welcome Slavoj Zizek (the adornments on the Zs are intentionally left out) who twists psychoanalytical theories together with rabid Marxism and generates ...

20 February, 2012

Marxism, Nietzsche, thinking, Zizek

Philosophy

“OMG!” look at these ads on Huffpost.

Advertising on "Huffington Post", December 6th, 2011
The 99% are 1%. The majority of the people is not on the streets, but sits at home watching sit-coms. And that is not just some politician's quote.

What is the real sentiment of "the people"? To get a good indicator, we would have to assess ...

6 December, 2011

advertisements, essay, evil, existentialism, getting rich, Huffington post, occupy movement, perverse, security, vanity, Zizek

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August 10. All about Bragging.

What I also see is a video on Slavoj Zizek. My interest in this funny bear comes back when I hear he married a very pretty underwear model. Zizek's paranoid hyperphilosophy is very sexy but for me just an attempt to make things sound more interesting than they are. He could tell for example that ...

30 August, 2009

bragging, Cyrillic, hair problems, NB, Zizek

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