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Ashleigh 2022-12-18 15:00:22

1. There is an invisible transcendence in the consumption sign, with its invisible absence. (The "excess" value of Coke and Kinder Eggs as a successful commodity) 2. Beethoven knew that "Ode to Joy" was an ideology. "When bin Laden embraces George Bush, when white racists embrace Mao, and they sing eulogies together, we can indeed imagine a perverted scene of universal friendship" How does ideology work? It doesn't just make sense, it Rather, it operates as an empty vessel, open to all possible meanings (for example, the Ninth Symphony can be referenced by both Nazi Germany and communist society), with Althusser saying that "ideology is an object representation. wrong feeling” coincides. 3. When we say that we are "moved by something, there is an esoteric meaning in it", we don't know what that "depth" is, it is empty and can even be filled by people, just as the Ninth Symphony can be The part that applies to all formal celebrations now, like that unknown, pushes us again and again at the mercy of ideology and the inducement of consumerism. The barrage said, "Great musicians can practice, and the perfect music that is idling will always run to its "residual" value." Agree. 4. The "big ideology" striving for justice and equality disintegrates, and the ideology that is still in operation is only pure consumerism. For example, the youth who rob things (the incitement of limited edition **) are caught in a symbolic deadlock. Good example. 5. Regarding John Foster's "The Searcher" - the act of "saving the wind and dust" gives him the executive power as the other, the real reason why the hero's violence is denied is that the victim is not a simple victim, the victim is A perverted way of enjoying or participating in her "victimization" (situation, encounter), such as the persistence of a third person in emotional life advising the unlovable, and the latter often do so knowingly, refusing to be redeemed, as if " Rescue the Vietnamese from the Vietnamese". 6. "Violence is not abstract violence, it is a bloody intervention in reality to cover up a certain related powerlessness" This powerlessness has a tendency to helplessness and collapse, and only shows violence - violence is often self-destruction Tendency to extend outwards. Pain, in turn, is an inevitable inward violence. 7. Ideology is a filter, a frame. When you look through this frame, everything changes, not because the frame adds anything, but because the frame opens up an abyss of doubt. 8. Zizek's analysis of the rock band "German Tanks" is wonderful, "The pleasure is condensed in small twitches and gestures with no precise ideological meaning, what the German tank does is to liberate these elements from the Nazis, allowing us to To enjoy their pre-ideological state, the way to fight the Nazis is to enjoy these elements, by suspending the Nazis' vision, so you can subvert within the Nazis", thinking of Shostakovich's absurdity...take the initiative to speak When it comes to ideology, it loosens the combination of ideology and its non-ideological things, so that non-ideological things appear. 9. Ideology bribes and lures us into its edifice, when we buy a Coke, Starbucks, we realize that we also buy a lot of ideology. What the Starbucks poster does is make you a conscientious consumer, by claiming that you will be giving your profits to charity. The highest form of consumerism is not just the consumer but the person who pays more for environmental protection. 10. The foundation of capitalism is instability, and industrialization and urbanization are also factors of instability. A true capitalist is a miser who is ready to sacrifice everything for this obligation. Capitalism is in crisis all the time, which is why it seems almost indestructible, crisis is not its obstacle, crisis is what pushes it forward, multiplying into a permanent, self-renewing, expanding self, its hidden side It is waste, we should not want to get rid of this waste heap in some way, maybe the first thing we should do is accept these wastes, admit the existence of these worthless things, and break the eternal cycle of functional value. Benjamin said that when we are in such moments, it is when we experience history (that is, what our being as history means) not when we are involved in the things that are active, but only when we see what these civilizations have The resulting waste debris is recycled by natural parts, and it is only then that we get a sense of what history means. Inertness of truth "being silent beyond meaning", perhaps without these proper, artistic moments, moments of bluntness in the face of truth, nothing new emerges, perhaps newness only emerges from failure Emergence, emerging from the suspension of the normal functioning of the existing web of life in which we live, (which is also the meaning and positivity of the pandemic.) This is perhaps something we need more than ever. The foundation of capitalism is instability, and industrialization and urbanization are also factors of instability. A true capitalist is a miser who is ready to sacrifice everything for this obligation. Capitalism is in crisis all the time, which is why it seems almost indestructible, crisis is not its obstacle, crisis is what pushes it forward, multiplying into a permanent, self-renewing, expanding self, its hidden side It is waste, we should not want to get rid of this waste heap in some way, maybe the first thing we should do is accept these wastes, admit the existence of these worthless things, and break the eternal cycle of functional value. Benjamin said that when we are in such moments, it is when we experience history (that is, what our being as history means) not when we are involved in the things that are active, but only when we see what these civilizations have The resulting waste debris is recycled by natural parts, and it is only then that we get a sense of what history means. Inertness of truth "being silent beyond meaning", perhaps without these proper, artistic moments, moments of bluntness in the face of truth, nothing new emerges, perhaps newness only emerges from failure Emergence, emerging from the suspension of the normal functioning of the existing web of life in which we live, (which is also the meaning and positivity of the pandemic.) This is perhaps something we need more than ever.

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  • Slavoj Zizek: We usually think that military discipline - is just a matter of mindlessly following orders. Obeying the rules. You don't think you do what is your duty. It's not as simple as that. If we do this, we just become machines.

  • Slavoj Zizek: The truly disturbing thing about The Dark Knight - is that it elevates lie into a general social principal, - into the principal of organisation - of our social political life. As if our societies can remain stable, - can function, only if based on a lie. As if telling the truth, and this telling the truth - embodies in Joker means distraction. Disintegration of the social order.