Our comrade Slavoj, courtesy of Jennifer.
I am in Brazil, where the wavelets lap. It is another planet and very relaxing in its third world, ascetic way.
I think I fit in in South America a lot better than I do in the U.S. I should possibly move.
Axé.
The video is not coming through well for me, but I really need to comprehend Comrade Slavoj and Badiou. We can also read Adrian Johnson’s book on Comrade Slavoj’s ontology (“a transcendental materialism”). http://mariborchan.com/2008/03/19/zizeks-ontology-a-transcendental-materialist-theory-of-subjectivity/
Here’s a transcript of part I.
http://kemalkenan.blogspot.com/2009/07/slavoj-zizek-what-does-it-mean-to-be_28.html
haha. he says that mere liberalism facilitates the rape of the oppressed, and we should cut the balls off the authorities, rather than presume to merely “dust them”, which is all that is achieved unless we refuse to go along with the programme.
Yes — this much I figured out. He’s right. Also in this Brazilian house there’s a book on meditation which says similar things from a meditation point of view!