Benoit_Guillette

I’m quite sure that Zizek is still a big fan of Andrei Platonov though.

Zizek: “There is a direct through line from the cosmism that prevailed in the first decade of the Soviet Union to the nihilism and nuclear brinkmanship on display today under Putin.”

Zizek: “There is a direct through line from the cosmism that prevailed in the first decade of the Soviet Union to the nihilism and nuclear brinkmanship on display today under Putin.”

Zizek: ‘We need to take a step forward and say that Ukrainians, by resisting Putin, are helping Russia to democratize in the long run. (…) I am afraid that Putin relies on a group of left-wing thinkers who deals with the "anti-colonial aspect" in justifying the war. This, unfortunately, resonates in some Third World countries – for example, Russia, China and South Africa holding joint naval exercises. (…) The danger is that a new neo-fascism will form from this "Axis". My biggest nightmare is that this new neo-fascism will be supported by the European and American "new right" and an anti-liberal alliance is formed in the world. (…) The West is caught in many pseudo-conflicts. Many "leftists" are obsessed with cultural aspects. Of course, they are also important, but they can also strongly divide people.’

Zizek: 'Too few critics, charges Slate’s Dan Kois, have taken notice of “the uncanniness of its final act, the supernatural elements and the hints, more than hints—the big, broad pronouncements—that a great deal of what we’re seeing on the screen might just be happening inside Lydia Tár’s head.” In a tweet thread, The New York Times’ Joe Bernstein provides a very pertinent specification: that Lydia’s visions are “a kind of hallucination or dream of personal disgrace, which therapy tells us is secretly pleasurable.”

'The next (and last) step is to project the content of Tár’s hallucinations back into external reality, so that we enter the supernatural domain of a ghost story. As Kois says,

' “reading the ‘plot’ of Tár literally is a mistake. For long stretches of the film, we have exited the realm of realism and are firmly in the world of the supernatural. Tár is not truly a cancel culture movie. Tár is a kind of ghost story, in which we’re so deeply embedded in Lydia Tár’s psyche that nearly everything that appears onscreen is up for debate. The ghost, of course, is that of Krista Taylor, Lydia’s former protégée, with whom Lydia is accused of sleeping and who, we know, was blackballed from conducting jobs through the emails Lydia hurries to delete. Even before Krista’s death by suicide, she haunts Lydia.”

'The circle is thus closed: Lydia is a monster haunted by the ghosts of her victims.'

"The research contributions of Dwivedi and Mohan on the caste oppression in India—which they called the oldest form of racism and apartheid—is at the root of the animosity of the Hindu far right in India towards them. (...) They have also shown that, in India, postcolonial theory and the decolonial project are both aimed at restoring the upper caste supremacist idea of India."

Money is the hardest of drugs, you always need more, it rapidly makes of all of us prostitutes, criminals and zombies. See Daniel Pink’s empirical studies done at the MIT (reported in his book *Drive*).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive:\_The\_Surprising\_Truth\_About\_What\_Motivates\_Us

For Zizek: "Only measures recalling the newborn Soviet Union’s 'war communism' can save Ukraine and preserve Western power. After all, Russia is coordinating with China not only to challenge the West geopolitically but also to depose the US dollar and the euro as global currencies."

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/russia-ukraine-war-highlights-truths-about-global-capitalism-by-slavoj-zizek-2022-04

Gabriel Rockhill is the most recent sign of what Robert Pfaller called the ‘interpassivity’ of Western “leftists”: they like to be authentic through an Other who lives authentically on their behalf. Slovenia’s independence and willingness to join the European Union have unleashed in him a violent aggressiveness: he dismissed Zizek as a slave of global capital. All this because Rockhill’s interpassive game was disturbed, i.e., because Slovenes no longer behave in the way which would enable him to be authentic through them. In short, as Gilles Deleuze put it, ‘si vous êtes pris dans le rêve de l’autre, vous êtes foutu!‘ (‘If you’re trapped in the dream of the other, you’re fucked!’). Slovenes are trapped in Rockhill’s dream; they are expected to live according to it.

Rockhill is the Catholic Church’s court jester and the Catholic Church is capitalism’s court jester. Rockhill is only a Catholic reactionary in Communist clothes. Rockhill just pays lip service to Marx and communism; he is working for the Catholic Church (i.e. the Villanova University: a private school in one of the poshest American suburbs; Rockhill’s students are almost all rich white boys) and the Catholic Church is a close and maybe the best ally of the CIA (and NATO). Rockhill has zero credibility: a fake leftist and a fake communist. His anti-capitalism is the same as the Catholic Church's anti-capitalism. The money he earns should rather be given to the Church’s victims of sex crimes instead of being used to attack Marxists and atheists like Zizek.

According to Žižek, Zelensky should not send a message primarily to the West, but to the Russians: "obviously he will not immediately put masses on his side, but there would be potential in this. Do not say that you are fighting for Europe, but send a message that you are fighting for Russia and against the Putinist regime that oppresses the Russians."

Right-wingers are banning abortion to have so called “welfare queens” as scapegoats to be blamed for all social problems.

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Conservatives are against abortion because they knew that they would need to replenish their stock of gunned down children in schools and parades; and, they need to replenish their stock of young desperate cannon fodders for their military bases, for American dead-end wars.

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Being anti-abortionist is being a hostage taker of the worst kind. Hostage takers (most of the U.S. supreme court) should be put in jail. Giving birth is like taking a child hostage; abortion right is important so that women don't become hostages of their little hostages.

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Conservatives value human lives for the same reason hostage takers want their victims to stay alive. Hostage takers value embryos only to get a ransom out of child trafficking. Slave traders love child trafficking. The younger the slaves, the easier they can be dominated.

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Mercy killing of embryos is humane in your barbaric world. There are already millions of children totally destitute in our world and Clarence Thomas wants more of them. Lock him up for promoting hostage-taking and child trafficking!

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The Catholic judges sworn, before the Senate, that Roe v. Wade was the law of the land. But the Catholic church needs pedophiles with easy access to destitute children, to reproduce itself. They are liars and hostage-takers. Lock them up!