Žižek welcomes you to the gym

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Žižek welcomes you to the gym

Post by Magritte » Mon Jul 14, 2014 1:56 pm

"In 1981, singer, actress Olivia Newton-John is performing in a musical video for her song “Physical.” Olivia Newton-John is in the gym, not sweating, wearing headband and leotard, doing aerobics. Why is she not sweating? To answer this question, we need to reverse it and ask: Why are we not wearing a headband and leotard? And why are we sweating?

Then, I think, the meaning is clear. We are sitting in front of the TV, being couch potato, watching the illusion of nudity—which is the leotard—and the symbolism of discipline: the headband. She is doing all the work for us. She is getting physical.

With that in our minds, today we are going to do an upper-body workout with weights and the machines. OK!"

and it goes on like that...!

I can't help hearing this in his voice when I read it. The writer has his diction down cold.
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Re: Žižek welcomes you to the gym

Post by met » Mon Jul 14, 2014 8:11 pm

http://gawker.com/slavoj-zizek-sorta-ki ... 1604590014

I'm not sure what this proves?

There IS NO God?

There IS a God after all?

Whichever. The proof is final.....
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Re: Žižek welcomes you to the gym

Post by Magritte » Tue Jul 15, 2014 7:21 am

If he's clever, and he is, he'll riff this into a book on the nature of memory, writing, technology, collaboration and the authorial voice in late capitalism. OK!
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Post by met » Tue Jul 15, 2014 11:33 am

Yeah. And maybe he could title it, Writing and Difference? That'd be funny....
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Post by Magritte » Wed Jul 16, 2014 7:18 am

met wrote:Yeah. And maybe he could title it, Writing and Difference? That'd be funny....
:mrgreen:

I really should read that, actually. I haven't paid much attention to the contintentals.
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Post by met » Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:26 pm

Peter Rollins says there's a really funny utube vid with Zizek debating a fundamentalist, while playing his role as the atheist theologian. They get round to discussing this passage, the following statement by Jesus.
. If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters--yes, even his own life--he cannot be my disciple.
... to which the fundamentalist says, "well you can't take that entirely literally."

.... And Zizek replies: "No, no, NO! You must take him ENTIRELY literally!"

But, alas, I couldn't locate it. :(


The big name post-structuralists all write "en francois" and even in English translations the mindset, style and vibe is still really "French" (in various subtle & kinda inarticulate ways). So it helps to have some French which, it's quite likely as you live in Montreal, you do?
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Re: Žižek welcomes you to the gym

Post by Magritte » Wed Jul 16, 2014 3:22 pm

My French is embarrassingly bad, especially to tackle this kind of wordplay laden thing. I guess there are editions with a translation on facing pages?

(if you do find that video post a link, that sounds too funny)
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Re: Žižek welcomes you to the gym

Post by Metacrock » Mon Jul 21, 2014 7:09 am

this is all beyond me.
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Re: Žižek welcomes you to the gym

Post by met » Wed Jul 23, 2014 10:05 pm

The “One” is the space of the “world” of the tick, but also the “pinch” of the lobster, or that rendezvous in person to confirm online pictures (with a new lover or an old God). This is the machinery operative...as “onto-theology."
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