Movie Notes

"They Live Extreme Space" 1988

Ideology manipulates pleasure and duty, thereby affecting the human spirit to serve ideology

"The sound of music" 1965

--First of all, psychoanalysis distinguishes between enjoyment and pleasures: enjoyment: enjoyment in disturbed pleasure. This distinction distorts the relationship between duty and pleasures. This is where the (religious) ideology can be displayed.

Q: Is enjoyment a product of ideology?

——Ideological working mechanism: On the surface, it teaches people to be responsible and moral, duty*no pleasure, but secretly says that they can do whatever they want by signing a contract. As a result, pleasure and duty establish an antagonistic relationship. Pleasure no longer belongs to the individual, but belongs to Divine Big Other of "Asylum Individual"

Catholic ideology in the film: Maria enters the monastery (accept duty), meets the baron (pleasure and duty conflict), the monastery encourages and affirms her to enjoy. It is presumed that Maria felt remorse for duty in the enjoyment and was grateful for the protection of the monastery. The appeal of Catholicism is that individuals can establish a contract between the church as an institution and their behavior troubles, and the individual's desires are rewarded with dive Big Other. shelter of others. This contract does not conform to Christian teachings, but belongs to an "institution" and is a pure "logic of institution". Witty Christian brochures will not be "ascetic", but a contract between believers and church institutions - when the believers' pleasure and duty conflict, the church will become the believer's enjoyment of pleasure behavior (enjoyment? ) of the patrons (if they do not accept Christian teachings, people will have no confusion of duty and pleasure, and do whatever they want.

Analogy to a certain ideology in modern life: duty is the first layer of ideology, and please is "naturally opposed" to its "believers", but modern people will encounter many conflicts between duty and please, and modern people will be under guilt enjoy - but originally, pleasure does not have a sense of guilt, guilt is given by ideology.

Analogy to a certain ideology in modern life: When “be yourself” (pleasure) is the first layer of modern social ideology, modern people will face conflicts between various duties and pleases in their lives, and duty has become the hidden second layer?

Sudden conjecture (this idea is wrong): The complete reversal of the position of duty and pleasure from Christian ideology to modern social ideology is because Christianity temporarily needs to attract people to "religious", and in modern society, all modern people are Have to automatically become a believer in "modern society"?

Q: Žižek cites the story of People feel guilty for not enjoying enough, for not being able to enjoy that his psychiatrist friend told him, to illustrate that at present, the surface of ideology has changed to "pleasure"?

Q: Why did Zizek specifically point out that "as a possible atheist communist" when the person who harmoniously sang the three-minute atheist communist, "he knows the charm of Catholicism"?

——The current ideology of "obligatory pleasure" comes from this

"Different Dance Coca-Cola Commercial" 2000

- A commodity is never just a simple object that we buy and consume. A commodity reflects some "transcendent" need. theoretical even metaphysical niceties, its presence reflects an invisible transcendence

——Coke is a perfect commodity, and Coke advertisements openly reveal this hidden "transcendent" attribute of the commodity. the classical publicity for Coke quite openly refers to this absent invisible quality: Coke is the Real Thing or Coke That's It

——The society of "obligatory" enjoyment: in our postmodernism (societies) (why does Zizek say here however we call them societies?) we are obliged to enjoy (duty)

*The paradox of cola: the more you drink, the more you get thirsty, the more you drink

——Desire is never simply the desire for "something", but also the desire for "desire" itself, for being able to "continue desire". Depression is the loss of desire. never simply the desire for a certain thing, always also a desire for desire itself-a desire to continue to desire-maybe the ultimate horror of desire is to be fully filled in met

——"Ice Coke is the real Coke" - the added value of commodities elusive surplus (elementary dialectics of commodities (?)

*Kinder Suprise Egg: "Additional Desire" materialized; Zizek doesn't think the chocolate shell exists to allow one to better explore the additional toys inside. i don't think that the chocolate frame is just to send you on a deeper voyage towards the inner treasure (the what Plato calls "Agalma" which makes you a worthy person) (which makes the commodity a desirable commodity.) I think it is the other way around.

Rather, the toy inside exists to better enjoy the chocolate crust. We should aim at the higher goal, the goal in the middle of an object precisely to be able to enjoy the surface, This is what the anti-metaphysical lesson which is difficult to accept.

"Ode to Joy"

——This piece of music is used in a wide range of scenarios and is suitable for almost all ideology. this neutrality if a frame is never as neutral as it appears

——Alex ("Clockwork Orange" 1971) was deeply moved by Ode to Joy. whenever an idealogical text says all humanity unite in brotherhood joy and so on, you should always ask, are this "all" really "all"? or is someone excluded (Alex) - and Beethoven's symphonies contain these "excluded" excluded"

The "cynic" ideology

"west side story" 1961

——if the classical ideology functioned in the way designated by Marx in his nice formula from Capital Volume One, "they don't know why they are doing, but they are none the less doing it" ——cynical ideology Morphological functions in the mode of this

- People governed by a cynic ideology are never superficial cynic punks who have their "little private dreams"

——English riots of August 2011, explained to the standard liberal of this riot that the rioters lived in poor conditions, etc., but it was not convincing enough. Because people are not only affected by the objective environment, everyone has a "buffer zone", which gives people the opportunity to exert their subjective initiative to change the objective environment. because man is not simply a product of objective circumstances, we all have this margin of "freedom" in deciding how we subjectivize these objective circumstances which, of course, determine us how we react to them by constructing our own universe

Violence is a "forced reality intervention" to hide one's own powerlessness

"taxi driver" 1976

"the searchers" 1956

——Both movies are "heroes" who want to "rescue" "victims", but the reason for violence is often caused by "heroes" subconsciously realizing that "victims" themselves enjoy "victim status" (do not want to be rescued) the task is always to "save" the perceived "victim"; but what really drives this violence of the hero is a deep suspicion that the victim is actually, in a perverted way, enjoys or participates in what appears as her victimhood (*US "humanitarian" military intervention) can only result in an "outbreak of violence"

——Violence is not just "violence" in the abstract sense, it is a kind of "forced reality intervention" to hide one's own powerlessness violence is never just abstract "violence", it is a kind of brutal intervention in the real to cover up certain impotence concerning what we may call "cognitive mapping": You lack a clear picture of what is going on, where are we.

— "The horrific outburst of violence" is the same. it is palpably clear that how this violence that Breivik not on (Massacre Enforcer) ly theorized about but also enacted is a reaction to the impenetrability and confusion of global capital.

- Violence should be applied to what inwardly binds you to the prevailing ideology. you should have the outburst of violence and you should direct it at yourself, but in a very specific way at what in yourself change you ties you to the ruling ideology.

How anti-Semitic ideology works, ideology's "buying and control" of meaningless elements

Jaws Jaws 1975

Triumph of the Will 1935

"the eternal jew" 1940

- What does "attack of the great white shark" mean? What does "Great White Shark" stand for? Represents the collection of all fears in people's hearts

—Nazi fascist anti-semitism This is how the ideology of anti-Semitism works.

Fascism initially developed productivity through economic change elementary conservative revolution to develop modern industry; a change would be accompanied by reassert traditional hierarchal society, a society which is modern and efficient, but at the same time controlled by hierarchal values ​​with no class or other antagonisms. But the way capitalism works is "unstable" antagonism, class struggle and other dangers are something inherent to capitalism, modernization, and industrialization means disintegration of old stable relations, it means social conflicts. Instability is the way capitalism functions.

The fascist solution is to generate an ideological narrative which explains how things went wrong

* British John Major's ideological campaign, all problems in society focus on career single mothers

*Don't think of everything related to fascism as part of fascism; many concepts in between come from the labor movement, such as the concept of large mass demonstrations, the concept of strict discipline and obedience, the solidarity of the people

- The key is to find where the ideology belongs.

For example, "tomorrow belongs to me" ("cabaret song hall" 1972) is a radical leftist community song

For example, "volkerball" rammstain, 2006 "Reise Reise" elements of the Nazi ideology-pure elements of libidinal investment, the gestures of Nazi militarism in its performance actually have no ideological meaning. Just release these elements from ideology and enjoy the elements themselves; by suspending the Nazi horizon of meaning to undermine Nazism from within

—How does ideology connect ideology itself with "elements that do not belong to anything"?

these elements can also be seen as a kind of a bribe, the way ideology pays us to seduce us into its edifice, these bribes can be purely libidinal bribes all those tics which are condensed enjoyment, or they can be explicit discursive elements like notions of solidarity of collective discipline, struggle for one's destiny, etc

Consumerism's shining moment

- Starbucks Coffee: be a consumerist without any guilty (pay more to "duty")

- capitalism

- Maybe there is no inspiration without failure and stagnation

"Titanic" 1997

——The supreme case of ideology in recent Hollywood:

1) what people ironically refer to as James Cameron's "Hollywood Marxism", the ridiculous fake sympathy with lower classes, while the upper classes are mostly all evil, egotistic, cowardly

2) what role does the iceberg hitting the ship play in the development of the love story?

3) The love between the two will be a disaster, Jack's role is to help Rose to reconstitute her ego (self-worth) - a new version of one of the old ? imperialist myths

4) The iceberg collided after the two decided to be together, the accident saved the illusion of eternal love

* "Disaster" saves "ideas" "oratorio for Prague" 1968 Soviet invasion saved the dream of "Prague Spring"

5) ```she shouted, "I will never let you go" while at the same time pushed him off, "vanishing mediator" - I will never let go in the movie, Zizek got it wrong

——Same logic as "the fall of Berlin v The Fall of Berlin" 1949, the purpose of the war is to separate the couple, and the purpose of victory is to reunite the couple. Credit to Stalin every time we are together.

The glue between "collective machines" and "individuals"

"full Metal jecket" 1987

- Man will not be part of the (army) machine willingly and mindlessly. And more: military discipline mindless following orders

1) Ironic distance through ridicule: "MASH Army Field Hospital" (1970) sexual escapades+jokes

2) Add obscene content to keep the machine going obscene supplement to pure military discipline: full Metal jecket lewd marching songs (not a joke, but a part of it); bribe them with a bit enjoyment-obscenities sustain the military machinery

If you are too identified with these content and lose the example, then it's over

——All "machines" (state-schools) apply, and there are always some hidden rules to gain the approval of the group. "If" 1968

the dark knight 2008

a noble fable

"Brief Encounter" (1945)

——What is big other

1) the secret orders of things (control our destiny)

2) the order of appearances: The ban is limited to not happening under the big other.

- the image of big other:

——Need an agency to talk to

"seconds reborn" 1966

Are our so-called "dreams" really what we want, or just "what society makes us think we want"

"zabriskie point" 1970

We are responsible for our dreams-----our dreams stage our desires, and our desires are not objective facts, we created them, we sustained them, we are responsible for them.

"the loves of a blonde" 1965

"Brazil Wonderful" 1985

"the last temptation of christ"