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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Friday, May 24, 2024

Slavoj Zizek, "Do we Need a Global Restructuring?"

Slavoj Žižek, "Do not isolate yourself from us" (Google translated from Turkish)
'In Praise of the Party', which is considered by some to be the most problematic song in Bertolt Brecht's play The Measure Taken, is a much more accurate and unique proposition than it seems. In this song, Brecht seems to make the Party the epitome of the 'subject that is supposed to know', as if he elevates it to the level of the embodiment of Absolute Knowledge, which has complete and perfect insight into the historical situation: "If you have two eyes, the Party has thousands of eyes!" [*] But a close reading of this poem reveals a very different operation; The Chorus reproaches the young Communist that the Party does not know everything, and perhaps the young Communist is right in his objection to the dominant line of thought of the Party [*] :
Show us the path we need to follow, so that we
can follow that path just like you, but
do not cross the right path without us.
When we are not on that path,
it becomes the wrongest of all paths.
Don't separate yourself from us.
This means that Party authority does not consist of certain positive knowledge, but has taken the form of a new type of knowledge connected to the collective political subject. The only important issue that Koro insistently emphasizes is that if the young comrade believes that he is right, he must fight by taking his own place in the collective Party structure, and not go beyond it; In other words, to put it rather sadly, if he is truly right, then the young comrade is much more needed by the Party than other members. The Party's demand is that we ground our 'I' in the Party's collective identity 'We': fight with us, fight for us, fight for your truth that challenges the Party's dominant line of thought, as long as you do this struggle by going outside the Party. don't give it yourself. Just like in Lacan's formula of analytical discourse, what is important about the Party's knowledge is not its content, but its substitution for Truth.
From Revolution is at the Door

Turkish: Işık Barış Fidaner

See “In Praise of the Internet” ~ Bertolt Brecht, “We Are the Party” Bertolt Brecht

114 comments:

Anonymous said...

"They... who know better". Big Other. Figure of Father. And etc.

And name t em -- Legion.

Yawn.

But.


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Anonymous said...

New kind of art, again. ;-P

Anonymous said...

Flashmob? ;-P

Anonymous said...

New gadget? ;-P

Anonymous said...

This and this (hint: Georgia govt) ;-P

And this.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

"They... who know better"

"Alchemy is not interested in truth like the scientific method, it's interested in operational success."
George Soros, "The Alchemy of Finance"

Truth? Naaaah! "Operational Success".

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

:P

Anonymous said...

\\Truth? Naaaah! "Operational Success".

Yawn. That is ONLY truth available to mere mortals. ;-P



\\:P

My -- better. ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

The One Party State (or worse, World) is never a Truth for mortals. For mortals are not one, they are Many.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Ukraine wants to join the One-Party World. I want to go back to a bi-polar or multi-polar one.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Zizek, as you can tell from this interview, wants the Uni-Party one, starting with Europe and DiEM25.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...a global Switzerland.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

THAT would be the aim of his "global restructuring".

Anonymous said...

\\The One Party State (or worse, World) is never a Truth for mortals. For mortals are not one, they are Many.

Go read about trilobites. ;-P

They ruled over Earth... once. ;-)

Anonymous said...

\\Ukraine wants to join the One-Party World. I want to go back to a bi-polar or multi-polar one.

Soon.

In ww3.



\\Zizek, as you can tell from this interview, wants the Uni-Party one, starting with Europe and DiEM25.

Whatever.

It... of no authority for me.



\\...a global Switzerland.

Those who never was there? ;-P




\\THAT would be the aim of his "global restructuring".

"Let you live in a time of changes"(TM) ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

The anthropocenic won't be but a blink on the trilobite scale of longevity.

Anonymous said...

Who knows...

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

If a meteorite didn't kill them all off, the next nuclear war most certainly will.

Anonymous said...

Art -- it's blast! ;-P

Anonymous said...

\\ the next nuclear war most certainly will.

nuckear war... overrated. Yawn.

I think... nuked out North America... will not be seen as anything important. ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...only to the surviving cockroaches.

Anonymous said...

Attacker ALWAYS have first move.

Like it was in 9/11.

Anonymous said...

;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

I dunno, that kinda sounded like whiney cockroaches post-nuke.

Anonymous said...

:-)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Anonymous said...

Well... Future IS Foreign Country. ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

..."undiscovered". ;)

Anonymous said...

Yeah. Very first from ST I saw...

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (but with a slightly different twist).

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

The future = post-death time.

Anonymous said...

Have a plans for afterlife?

Well, whatever.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

No kids?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Ever hear of "Estate Planning"?

Anonymous said...

Have nothing to re-distribute. ;-P

Being poor -- is a blessing. In a sense.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

So why fight Russia then?

Anonymous said...

History

Anonymous said...

\\So why fight Russia then?

For USA?

Yeah, you need em to grow so big and mighty, and so pissed off on you... so they'll do their version of Pearl Harbor. ;-P

And ONLY THEN... you'd start paying attention... to their ICBMs.

Yawn.

If there'd still be enough Ams to do that. ;-P

Anonymous said...

And... history relevant to your bright idea I presume. ;-)

Anonymous said...

More close to your home ;-)

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

History? That "big other" has always been a cuck.

Anonymous said...

Yawn.

What that word your greeks used?

Ah, yes -- hubris. ;-P

Anonymous said...

That's why I dislike history... it looks like railroad... into damn hell. :-(((((

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

History is hubris. Life in the present, based on a more distant Greek past, is Sophrosyne. And you know me. I'm a Philo-Soph. ;P

Anonymous said...

Yeah.

I know.

In it's more modern form -- mindfullness.

Every first of self-esteemed Ams today -- claim practicing it.

Yawn.

But I think there is more proper word -- Decadance. ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Yes, we're so mind-full that its' spilling out everywhere...

Anonymous said...

:-))))

"most advanced in all senses country" ;-)

Or... you already forgot this ref.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Most advanced in retrogression...

Anonymous said...

"...in all senses" ;-P

Anonymous said...

You was asking for first hand experience... ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Great metaphor... Ukraine is a torneqeut on NATOs leg...

Anonymous said...

Yep... extreme measure to keep it from instant death.

That's what Ukraine do... for the last two years.

You are right!

Anonymous said...

Art... it's BLAST! ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Hopefully, the patient will bleed out soon so that we can move on with our withdrawal and MAGA instead of simping for European oligarchs. ;P

Anonymous said...

Kneejerking before Big Yellow Master... Be Prepared! ;-P

Anonymous said...

Chmobik talking with famale that gave to it birth... about how their number was halved, how they need to drink their piss... and etc. RUSSIA NEED Lend-Lease... to continue fight with "nazis"... go provide it to em. ;-P

Anonymous said...

I feel that Great Russia and Mighty China... will not overlook, that how MAGA USA DID NOT helped em... with thwarting "nazi" Ukraine and Taiwan. ;-P

Because, "Those who not WITH us... is AGAINST us" -- that is that rule they are living on. ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Molon labe!

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

btw - Europee (san Ukraine) will still be our b*tch.

Anonymous said...

All as planned. ;-P

Anonymous said...

Girls/women never tried to use you? ;-)

I earlier was puzzled about your non-understanding bulling/street fight logic/emotion.

But... maybe you are (despite your age) unaware of such trivia too... %-)))

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Maybe it remains trivia for a reason, like the epiphanies of Joyce's "Dubliners".

Anonymous said...

Yeah... sci-fi texts...

Anonymous said...

Totally off-topic. But made me a little puzzled
How long ago such a way of holding anchors was introduced?
What for???

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Emergency brakes, plus it's keeps them out of the way so that the crew isn't always tripping over them. On wooden sailing ships they were stowed outboard and tied by rope to the gunwales.

Anonymous said...

Well... earlier it was more integrated.



You(West?) was looking with a glee -- and when RFia will throw nukes at Ukraine.

But... they happens to not be idiot -- and understand that throwing nukes at Ukraine -- pointless.

So, now Russian propaganda talking about -- what Western country to use as test bed.

Yawn.

Some European... or North American from get go. ;-P



PS Do you know how many of their subs on-duty? And where they in the ocean?

Anonymous said...

Not yet corpses sitting among corpses... talking about grave worms. Yawn. ;-P

PS RFia NEEDS Lend-Lease!!!

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

The question you should be asking is, do they know where ours are? ;)

Anonymous said...

What for???

Your limp dick generals will not launch retaliation strike, anyway. ;-P

Anonymous said...

See what Derpy call it -- lunacy.

Obviously -- that is not product of his own thought process.

So... how many of your top brass and top "deep state" -- able to look at it rational??

While you yourself playing that silly mind-game here. With pretending that that is "NMP"????

Why you think OTHER your USA peers... should think anyhow better than that???

While you know yourself all that pShaws and Dubyas... DEMN cretins.

And your government -- is ALL DEMN cretins.

And even your favorite dRump -- chanting same DEMN propaganda....

Anonymous said...

Yet one tip for your Marines ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

You're a marker in our game of Risk with Russia and China. We tell you (Europe) how to play, because our markers (US bases) are all over your countries. We've got the "jelly beans", not you.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

ps - So either do as we say, or get us remove our markers from your region of the board.

Anonymous said...

Pft! ;-P

Anonymous said...

It's a shame... that you have no decent computer strategy games experience. :-)

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...because they model the world so accurately. @@

Anonymous said...

Still better than tabletop Risk. ;-P

More nuances. More differ approaches. ;-)

Anonymous said...

Now RFia have North Korean rockets... so, what can stop em... from adding some nuke to it. And launching... on New-York????

Ahh??? You'd investigate em. And will find for sure -- that was Russians? ;-P

And will launch some retaliation strike.

Or... that will be some dirty bomb. And it'll be launched by some Husiti... on Israel.

So... instead of retaliation. Your DEMNs will be spreading "that was God's punishment... of that puny genocidal Jews"???

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

You really think we'll wait for the nukes to land and we verify the builder before launching the counterstrike?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Maybe in a video game...

Anonymous said...

Yeah-yeah... 9/11 was just a video game. Famous in 00th...

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

"The Gulf War Did Not Take Place", Jean Baudrillard.

Anonymous said...

:-))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Well... maybe nuke over NewArk will not happen too... if we... well, you, will be ignoring it with all your magical might. ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

I have a feeling that if that nuke ever comes, it will have been Ukraine's fault.

Anonymous said...

Passing blame... that is favorite game in USA.

I know it by this time.

Yawn.

Anonymous said...

Am I too uncivilized... with such my brutally burrish frankness????

Well... count me being aspergy. ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Prodding the bear seems to be a favorite Ukrainian game as well. Call me "on the spectrum", too.

Anonymous said...

BS.

And you are fully on a liliPut narrative.

Though... it self-name itself as rat. "Cornered rat". ;-P

And you...

You, to the sickening feeling in the stomach -- normal.

Avoiding problems, ignoring em, turning blind eyes -- that is overly and utterly NORMAL behavior. ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

It's called "caritas" and human civilization is impossible without it.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

It is anything "but" normal, biologically.

Anonymous said...

???

"Normal" -- that is human definition.

Mother Nature... do not care about such things (do I need to give that link again?)

Anonymous said...

https://www.reddit.com/r/russian/comments/11wmfup/russian_cartoons_based_on_ancient_greek_myths/?rdt=40972

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Still binary... XYX or XYY? :P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Ah, XXYY (1 in 48,000 boys). My bad

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

My bad x2

In your research about XXYY, you may have seen references from The Intersex Society and others who have classified XXYY as an Intersex Condition (formerly referred to as hermaphrodite – or a person who has both male and female sex organs). Intersex is defined as a group of conditions where there is a discrepancy between the external genitals and the internal genitals (the testes and ovaries).

The XXYY Project wishes to correct a misunderstanding that has been derived from the definition of Intersex, as it relates to the sex of the child. Children born with the XXYY chromosomal makeup are:

Always male – unless there is some other factor involved
There is no discrepancy between the external genitals and internal genitals. Males with XXYY have male sexual reproductive organs
Males with XXYY do not have female organs or genitalia

Anonymous said...

I prefer occurrences when XYs become perfectly female... because of broken reaction to testosterone. ;-P

That's how slim our "manliness" is. ;-P

Well... scientists profess that Y chromosome will cease to exist at all. ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

More likely it's the unnatural abundance of estrogen circulating in the environment (especially FAT). Americans are becoming "obese".

As many men age their testosterone levels tend to decrease and they tend to gain more belly fat. Body fat has an enzyme called aromatase that converts testosterone into estrogens. When someone has higher estrogen levels in their body, their hormonal system tells the body to slow down its production of testosterone.

Anonymous said...

Yeah...

Anonymous said...

\\I prefer occurrences when XYs become perfectly female... because of broken reaction to testosterone. ;-P

Well... that's something that impossible to happen in Ancient Greeks times.

Well, even of lately.

Before genes testing that would be just another girl, just happen to be infertile.

Not a "girl" to which confidently revealed by doctors... that he is really a male, geneticly. ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Achilles @ Skyros.

Anonymous said...

He... did not know that he is male... there? ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Perhaps in his mind... but his body could not deceive Odesseus (much as Huck Finn couldn't deceive the old lady throwing the ball of yarn into his lap").

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...as his knees drew together to catch it.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

There are neural male and female brain expressions (Rhawn Joseph).

Anonymous said...

Do you deliberately trying to argue... or just naturally do not get it?

That was some documentary... Through wormhole with Morgan Freeman if I recall it right.

Where was shown such "male"... perfectly female in body and mind. NOT tranny. NOT crazy. NOT man in drag.

Just a she... that asked doctor "I seems like perfectly healthy and even fully developed and grown up woman -- WHY I can't have kids???? What's wrong with me????!".

And that nasty doctor, after all other usual tests was inconclusive. Suggested to make DNA test.

And. Surprise-surprise! It revealed. That perfectly 100% in body and mind woman... is XY male, geneticly. ;-P

Anonymous said...

Just because of broken (genetical mutation) receptors of that testosterone.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

In other words, she was "both", but "neither".

Did you know that testosterone could penetrate the blood-brain barrier?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

The movement of testosterone (T) from blood across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is thought to reflect the combined effects of T's lipid solubility and the presence of circulating binding proteins for T such as albumin or sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG)." :P

Anonymous said...

\\In other words, she was "both", but "neither".

No.

She was perfectly. 100% -- female.

Even BIGGER amount female than any other ordinary one -- ordinary females still have some testosterone in their veins.

That is just tinsy little discrepancy... it seems XY chromosomes cannot give a healthy egg... well, I was not researching it that much, to know exact reason.

Well... there many-many reasons of infertility. Yawn. So what??? Every non-fertile female is "both" or "neither"???




\\Did you know that testosterone could penetrate the blood-brain barrier?

Khm...

like any other hormone?







-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

DNA indicates that it wasn't 100%. No healthy eggs lowers the 100% as well.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is selectively permeable to steroid hormones: some of them (such as the gonadal steroids) can readily pass the BBB, while others (such as corticosteroids) pass only in small concentrations. This may however be modulated by hormone carrier proteins in the plasma.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Testosterone is a type of hormone called androgen. There are specific androgen receptors within the brain. Think of these receptors as light switches that only androgen hormones can activate. The hormone can also cross the blood-brain barrier.

Anonymous said...

\\DNA indicates that it wasn't 100%. No healthy eggs lowers the 100% as well.

????

AS they say, Y chromosome is mostly useless. There only some things that related to testosterone production reside.

And well... there is X chromosome. So basic functioning covered by it.

I dunno what precisely not working... you can research it for yourself?

But... there also people of XXYY and etc kinds. So what... they 150% or 200%??? ;-P




\\Testosterone is a type of hormone called androgen. There are specific androgen receptors within the brain. Think of these receptors as light switches that only androgen hormones can activate. The hormone can also cross the blood-brain barrier.

Yap.

And that receptors gone disfunctional... it seems. ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Maybe XY's simply can't make eggs.

Anonymous said...

Who knows...