troy - 04/03/08 23:02:01 EDT anyone want sex troy - 04/03/08 23:01:47 EDT hola mylittlekiosk - helio375@yahoo.com - 03/13/08 07:15:41 EDT Zizek's attack on liberalism is interesting, though I think it misses a serious point about how such ideologies function through the false dichotomies they create. It is said, for example, that we live in a "liberal democracy" and "capitalist economy". But is not the truth that we actually live in a liberal economy (so long as whatever you do in business / government doesn't harm anybody else, so be it) and a capitalist democracy (a "market" of politics, competition encouraged between political rivals, do anything to get ahead). It is convenient for the political class in liberal democracies to pretend that it's the other way around for the purpose of maintaining an ideological illusion in which citizens don't have to question the motives of those who govern us. This is way too simplistic an analysis, but worthy of debate. Which, given the way Western academic establishments still stack the odds against the working class, is about as much as this prole will ever get to offer in such a discussion. Viva democracia! Luca - 08/18/07 04:18:25 EDT hay ljudi ima li koga?? Luca - 08/18/07 04:18:03 EDT Zach - 07/31/07 13:39:00 EDT Re: Cathy - 04/20/01 10:23:19 EDT "What is the difference between the letter of the unconscious and the sinthome?" I want to know this too. Additionally, to what degree is the sinthome ex-timate? gropius breakfast - 07/13/06 18:34:58 EST hi. i'm interested to find (and work) on the relation :modernism (art) and new global society. Something like todays incouncnes practice of modernism (example-relation malevic monocrome and "uniformity" of corporations). If somebody can help me with some practical examples in literature...? I find wery courius the Zizek's book DIEREVOLUTION STEHT BEVOR. rob - 05/12/06 13:42:48 EDT to lacanlovesme, you are stuck in a western logocentrism witch carries the herritages of foukuyamas proclamaiton of the capitalism system as the end of history. This kind of structur implicates also that the communist spirit is something evil and catastrophical that implies a treath of the good. Do not speak in terms of good and evil, try instead to find a way out of contemporary western structure. The responsibility of the FAILURE lies in the hans of those who have the power to definate good and evil, so the conflict between Hegel and Kant can not be solved by re-representating contemporary ideas in a formm who stands for revalation and post-post-modernity (and so on) LacanLovesMe - 04/21/06 16:12:37 EDT Marco Mauas' is a lacanian psychoanalyst living in Israel... His article "Beginning the Debate" replies to Slavoj Zizek's "Repeating Lenin"... Lenin stands for the FAILURE to put Marxism into practice, for the big catastrophe which left its mark on the entire XXth century world politics, for the Real Socialist experiment which culminated in an economically inefficient dictatorship... A symptom: if...the thing for the subject to do is to identify himself with it - identifye to the letter that has been revealed as the function of his unconscious - where is the letter in Lenin? Where is the liebesleben of Lenin's lettre?nothing to be said of Hyppolite's Verneinung - 04/10/06 10:02:22 EST in Seminar One or at the end of french Ecrits........dialectics preceded even Hegel O modern Ones. Aristotle's Organon is filled with it. but who cares its been over a year......... Matthew Poitras - 04/04/06 09:52:03 EDT Oops, Hegelian Matthew Poitras - 03/03/06 16:51:11 EDT Mr.Baldino below seems to have created another thesis\anti-thesis in Hegelelian dialectic\Marxist dialectic. Personally, lately, since I feel Im getting the swing of earth and "imitating the natural law" (mallarme) i dont really feel like these self-negation oriented people inhibit my preference for ultimate understanding (which isnt necessarily unilateral when "apprehended"). When Im in the throws of real content, when Im really NAILING and PENETRATING satifaction, its clear all these ding dongs who have been subverting my point in the beginning turn into support when twist off something crystal, gold, because it meets all demands, even impossible demands that were spewed out of caprice. We can confir sanctifying grace of sorts and still deny structure, presence. aaron - 08/30/05 02:17:50 EDT i was under the impression that the sinthome is a symbol that doesn't really signify anything. it's devoid of meaning, right? Antaine - 07/24/05 11:50:05 EDT Was Repeating Lenin presented during a 'real'(live) symposium ? or did I imagine this ? Roberto Baldino - 06/19/01 10:09:50 EDT Can we say that the dialectical notion of FORM as described by Zizek stands for, or accounts for, the Marxist inversion of Hegel's dialectics? Instead of taking the unilateral determinations of Understanding to the point of their irrationality and self-negation (see paragraph 82 of the Small Logic)the FORM would inversely, take these dispersed unilateral determinantions to the point of their rational unity (Rational=Real in Hegel). (See Marx's introduction to the Critique of Pooitical Economy.) Rosa - 04/23/05 19:40:10 EDT Cathy, I think Marco Mauas' article is somehow answering your question... "The letter...is the signifier of the want in the Other...The letter is the new status of the symptom as a function, as f (x), where x is the letter...One of the things that it is possible for the subject to do is to identify himself with it, that is to say, to identify himself with the letter that has been revealed as the function, the essential function of his unconscious." - And about the Goulag, my question lies in concern with "the symptom that does not go in the real... the social crises, where there is money to buy but there is not money to pay..." Is this perchance the case with the Goulag? Cathy - 04/20/01 10:23:19 EDT What is the difference between the letter of the unconscious and the sinthome? Does Rosa suggest that the goulag is a function of Lenin's unconscious? Robert - 04/18/01 13:33:57 EDT The letter Lenin should identify with? Consider this failure in the training of analysts: many identify more with "the letter of the Unconscious" than the particular letter-- or rather, sinthome -- that emerges in the course of analysis. Robert - 04/18/01 13:29:28 EDT "Let's talk as much as possible about the necessity of a radical change to make it sure that nothing will really change!" If we accept Zizek's point, and agree to the formal dimension of the behavior of these academics (without a better description, we have to do so) then my question is: How is Zizek any different? Does Zizek have full-scale global economic models at his disposal that allow him to come up with subversive strategies with the aim of effecting global capitalism? Was Zizek behind the appearance of Mad Cow Disease in England, a move designed to cripple a key industry in a strategic way? Is Zizek doing anything other than asserting his symptom carries less deceit, his jouissance is the better one? Roberto Baldino - 04/14/01 21:33:58 EDT Les prtentions de l'esprit pourtant demeureraient irrductibles, si la lettre n'avait fait la preuve qu'elle produit tous ses effets de vrit dans l'homme, sans que l'esprit ait le moins du monde s'en mler [crits I, Instance de la lettre, Seuil, 267] Slavoj has well shown that the truth of Lenin was that he was not afraid to succeed (he acted). Which letter has produced this truth? I suggest that the answer is Kant, via Engels, neither Hegel nor Marx. This is why it only last for 70 years. Baldino Roberto R. Baldino - 04/14/01 08:39:28 EDT The lettre in Lenin is Kant via Engels. Surprinsingly it last for 70 years. Rosa - 04/01/01 23:28 EDT re: Mauas replies to Zizek's I would very humbly ask - in behalf of the question of the "letter" in Lenin... Is the letter - the name of the big catastrophe which left its mark on the entire XXth century...etc. - GOULAG? perfume - 04/01/01 23:02 EDT topic: Mauas replies to Zizek's "RL" Marco Mauas' is a lacanian psychoanalyst living in Israel... His article "Beginning the Debate" replies to Slavoj Zizek's "Repeating Lenin"... Lenin stands for the FAILURE to put Marxism into practice, for the big catastrophe which left its mark on the entire XXth century world politics, for the Real Socialist experiment which culminated in an economically inefficient dictatorship... A symptom: if...the thing for the subject to do is to identify himself with it - identifye to the letter that has been revealed as the function of his unconscious - where is the letter in Lenin? Where is the liebesleben of Lenin's lettre?
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