@Komyoshin nah its just slavoj :))

It is 🤣

To simplify complex issues is the work of the master. That is also what a poet does.

Chomsky has always been an arrogant asshole. To prove it to yourself disagree with him, get some popcorn, and watch the personal insults fly.

What chomsky said precisely?

@@GHa-yz1bw very late addition to this conversation. You've probably looked it up by now, but Chomsky called him a charlatan.

Where is the question? What is the timemark?

@@TheSpiritOfTheTimes 1:23

I couldnt find the book either but I believe article in intro is published in Nature (April 2016)“Exploring the quantum speed limit with computer games”

In another lecture I listened to, he says; "you know the woman with the two/three kilos? Yes? She has a name, she is my wife."

Graham Harmon, Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, etc.

It is actually his ex wife he has admitted it once

Zizek is asked about what is the most important question is in philosophy. Zizek answers by saying the state of appearance. What he means is that the appearance of something and external reality as a whole is the hardest question to answer and he goes through the malleability of appearance and how we are never seeing reality as what it is, but as a human interpretation.

@@demit189 To add more detail, I think he means that the gap between appearances and an ultimate form of concrete reality IS reality itself, in a Hegelian way, that negation of perceiving a total objective and concrete reality is part of reality itself, that the gap itself is the solution to the question of the gap. Then, the correct question is not to ask how to breach the gap between appearance and reality because then you discard the solution, and that's why we need to go back to Hegel to ask the correct question. Both the question and answer need to include the gap. In other words; the correct question to ask is how is that the gap is part of reality?

@@Lambda_Ovine beautifully put, well said.

did you take the time and read his "core" fundamental theoretical points? or are you reproducing what he just caricatured? (not "his", but rather, the Ljubljana Hegelian School... It's a troika... But, I must confess, If you are of the more-positivist, empiricist, utilitarian way of thinking things, not even French structuralism will appear "scientific" or "serious")

Its so easy to become someone by dismissing another out of hand...You might agree with him, agree with it in part or not at all.... but it is no mumbo jumbo and mostly brings insights

youre confused lol

No, he's actually truly left wing. But the PC and outrage crowd fancy themselves leftists so when someone actually deals with left wing issues in a substantial way, they tend to see it as being on the right.

I fucking hate this bullshit. Being left-wing is not synonymous with being psychologically weak. The left has been overrun with infantilized young adults as of late because they see it as the more friendly, less threatening political orientation, ie. the one concerned with helping people by generating novel solutions to problems. They're not wrong. Leftists have generally been the people to think up and implement solutions to problems over the years. But now the left is being filled with complacent idiots who don't do shit and angry retards who just run around trying the fight the power without any real strategy. And that is when the left fails. In large part it is now just a big circle-jerk of displaying empathy and being angry at people with power.

They are wrong insofar as they are too busy policing speech and finding racism in cartoons or sexual harassment in bad dates with mid-level TV stars. The left needs to return to what it was all about - workers' rights, unions, paid maternity and vacations, healthcare, higher salaries, progressive taxation, free public education (not just availability but also the quality). This means leaving youtube and twitter and going among people who work 3 jobs and are too busy to worry if their opinions offend someone. It means going among Trump voters in all those backwater areas and mobilizing them around issues such they actually care about. The left in America used to be concerned with solving problems of the working class, and now it has turn into a brigade of arrogant half-intellectuals who go about telling people they are racist and misogynist all the while forgetting that these people don't give a crap about anything except paying their bills, which they so often fail to do. And this is a critique coming from the left, I'm your regular Dewey and Gramsci-reading socialist. And I'm not the only one who is making this case - 20 years ago Richard Rorty predicted that this path the left is taking will give birth to people like Trump; he was ridiculed then, and apparently even after he turned out to be right, no one is willing to listen.

Mr Kiss knows the score