EXAMINED LIFE - official US trailer

[Skelic]

This documentary was great! My favorite philosophers were (in order): Slavoj Zizek and/or Cornel West, Michael Hardt, Peter Singer. My least favorite one was definitely Martha Nussbaum, I actually almost lost interest in the whole documentary when watching her part.

[jgwphilly1969]

zizek is a character

[Sakura71390]

pseudo intellectual philosophical bull crap

[mff8785]

The real philosophers of Western Culture have predicted the arrival of these folks. Yes, they'd get a few laughs out of Zizek, like all decent folk do. Bluesmen are philosophers? I like Coletrane and Miles, but West is off his rocker. Rosen and Mansfield would eat these folks alive in an open, freely moderated forum... Yeats was not a progressive... I can't the later, political Yeats, agreeing with West on anything other than the benefits of public education.

[shlarl]

0:34

What does "ethicity" mean?

[Five7weezy]

eth·nic·i·ty  (th-ns-t)

n.

1. Ethnic character, background, or affiliation.

2. An ethnic group.

[AmericasMaji]

Awesome!

[BronyaCovooper]

thank you Maji....

[gigel2006]

This is full of pretentious, pseudo-intellectual shit. The only good part is the Zizek part.

AVOID.

[spiritpunker]

Read more and say less.

[goodvibesallround]

@spiritpunker very wise

[dichotomyofone]

I agree, if some one uses more then 3 syllables in a word they're obviously pretending to be smarter then they really are.

[vranish]

'obviously'

[roewedge]

@dichotomyofone

haha a terrible plague of philosophy throughout all history though. Great thinkers but damn they came up with some wacky terms to try and describe what they were meaning! Kant was bad on that but he also took words that we already had and changed the meaning of them

[CorvidaeHerald]

@gigel2006 Good, then you have certainly developed a strong counter critique for the pseudo-intellectual shit found nearly everywhere today.

[XTAZZ13]

@gigel2006 what the hell do you know anyway. The discourse is always framed the same way-some idiot responds that he does not like something another responds that he likes it. so tiring.

[spacecricket]

where are the Straussians?

[CorvidaeHerald]

@spacecricket Where are the non-academics?

[CoolPhilfromDuval]

i want this dvd

[staylopictures]

There's nobody on earth more full of shit than Cornell West.

[thisisrealyo]

Only one dude could wear a construction vest and still demand attention of his ideas. Way to go Zizek.

[brewepau]

Cornell West is cool. I love this one: "I'm a blues man in the life of the mind. I'm a jazz man in the world of ideas".

I've been a jazz musician for a long time. Cornell West is our philosopher (along with Albert Murray). Cornell's book, "Democracy Matters" is great, too. His words about Emerson are the best I've read.

[imonotemo]

"Oh God! You call this Porn!!?"

Thank you Zizek for the comic relief!

[MadamTango]

Lub zizek.

[MusikMan54321]

I saw this movie a couple of weeks ago and was blown away by singer's and zizek's ideals. Avita Ronnell however, was a pretentious and bombastic bitch to say the least. I think if modern day philosphers such as her self found a commonality in the speech of basic people, their true genious wont just be recognized as arrogance.

[spiritpunker]

well, derridians like her found language too problematic to use in an ordinary way...

[duffeknol]

all good philosphers are dead, we don't need new ones, everything's been done anyway

[shuvit90]

hahaha, your name should be duffeknol aka fracis fukuyama anda the end of history, hoho

[duffeknol]

hey that's actually cool!

[yummy314159265]

yeah you're right, we have no more problems to solve, no more questions to ask, no more reason to live. shows over, everyone go home!

[duffeknol]

exactly, you get it too! Hahahah come on people, my comment was about as sarcastic as the one by yummy.

[ebauer]

Saw this in Toronto a couple of weeks ago, and I must say I was quite disappointed with many of the theorists, especially Hardt's part, where he is inarticulate as usual. Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek's parts were the most illuminating.

[wolskerj]

Wow! All the hippest, trendiest, intellectual charlatans of the present moment, all gathered together in one film! There must be some pretty stringent criteria for inclusion. Amazing. I almost want to see this.

[shuvit90]

hohoho, typical postmodern skepticism....

[roostertrigger]

cornell west is a goof....fraud

[shuvit90]

we need just a torrent, anyone?

[JamboCordoba]

I second this motion. Damn thing only played once in Minnesota.

[coff3eaddict]

You're in luck. It's showing again from Oct 23 for a week at Zinema 2 near the Twin Ports.

[kenkenken1000]

Saw it in Toronto yesterday. An orgy of golden words from some the world's most socially-minded intellectual thinkers. Lots of little found moments that punctuated and complemented the film's subject's subjects poetically, comically, etc. Five stars. Go Vegan!

[Mozrify]

Also - great role call of minds on there!

I can imagine shooting it was an absolute buzz, wandering around and picking the minds of engaged folks like Judith Butler and Slavoj.

[Mozrify]

awesome.

I really admire someone like astra taylor for bringing this sort of project to fruition, Zizek! was wonderful exposure for ideas and intellectual honesty.

Keep doing it Astra, very much looking forward to Examined Life.

Ally x