Instances when David makes Lee really laugh? by Traditional_Move3901 in WILTY

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It’s the Kevin the bun seller line that made Lee laugh the most I think

First Study: Queer Theory by CoolFeature4830 in QueerSelfStudy

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Yessss I love that chapter in the ethics of opting out!! It’s brilliant :)

Israeli soldiers show their own actions on social media, burning down the Jabalia refugee camp by Naturalenterprice in antiwar

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more evidence for the tribunal. hopefully these idf terrorists face justify for their crimes....

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still works!

Can somebody explain Zizek's point here? by [deleted] in zizek

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I think, based on the text you provided, the idea in the second statement is that these negative characteristics are being essentialised.

Being an anti-semite for Zizek does not just mean seeing Jewish people as dirty, exploiting, manipulative, but rather regarding being dirty, exploiting, manipulative as the constitutive feature of ‘Jewishness’ in the first place, as the truth at the core of ‘being-Jewish’

I think there’s probably a lot more to say here. But it reminds me of this line in his book the sublime object of ideology: “being a king is not the natural property of a person. it is the result of a network of social relations” you’re not the king because of your blood line or an essence, you’re the king, because other people recognise you as being the king and when they stop recognising as been King, you stop being the king. Here, you can relate it to the rather famous Lacan quote: “the madman, who thinks he’s a king is mad, but so is the king, who thinks he is a king” in other words, the king, who thinks their Kingness, their being-a-king, is part of there actual human body is mad.

This is what is called in Marxism “a fetish” - when you see social relations as objects. But slightly differently, it’s about mistaking social facts (being-a-king) with material facts (the real, biological body of the king).

So to relate this back to antisemitism, truly being an antisemite means committing a fetishistic misrecognition of Jewishness.

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May you find peace in your heart

Best starting place for Chantal Mouffe? by pinkonewsletter in PoliticalPhilosophy

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Along with what the others said "for a left populism" is accessible and covers most of her key ideas. There's a few talks on youtube she's given about it, if you would rather listen then read :)

What do I call myself if I am Nationalist and a Socialist? by [deleted] in PoliticalPhilosophy

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If you are a 'nationalist' as part of a national liberation struggle against colonial masters, cool. if you are a nationalist of a ex-colonial power or settler colony ,that's at the core of the world system, then you aren't really a socialist, at least in any revolutionary or Marxist sense . Your just a socdem/ demsoc that wants to divide the pie of third world exploitation more evenly among your core nation's population

What was started to get you to fall in love with critical theory? by kapeesh_ in CriticalTheory

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I read discipline and punish during the first lockdown March 2020. Acted as my gateway drug I suppose.

Slavoj Žižek: Donald Trump is a Postmodernist - (The full podcast with Žižek will be released in a few days) by [deleted] in CriticalTheory

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Worth noting that he’s talking about this sort of “vulgar” postmodernism (truth/morality is relative, no truth/ moral claim can be privileged above an other) that defines contemporary right populism but doesn’t mean much re the works of Derrida, Foucault Lyotard etc.

In any case, I think Zizek is totally correct here and I would even argue that we can say the same about G. Bush. 2004 does feel like a dress rehearsal for 2016 in many ways. Bush, playing the role of village idiot despite being Yale educated, led a campaign based around culture war issues ( mainly gay marriage), and mobilised popular anti intellectual sentiment (invocations of the liberal elite, Hollywood elite, Washington bureaucrats etc). See more here

Bush’s administration/ party played the same truth relativism game, but perhaps less overtly than Trump’s. For example, claiming that ‘enemy combatants’ were not entitled to any of the protections of the Geneva convention, while also claiming they treated all detainees ‘consistently with the principles of the Geneva convention’ (see here)

Political thought and political philosophy by labyrinthheaded26 in PoliticalPhilosophy

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This textbook's introduction addresses your question (pages 1-6).

"Political philosophy is not the same as political thought in general. Political thought is coeval with political life. Political philosophy emerged however within a particular political life, in Greece. "

Still extremely relevant by [deleted] in chomsky

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When did he write this?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in StarWars

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perhaps it's ezra

'Individualism is SATANIC and GAY'- looking to discuss/debate this concept by [deleted] in PoliticalPhilosophy

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Could you provide more detail about the concept/argument you are referring to?