julia kristeva

[apanhadordearrepios]

this is so diselegant

[Mnadarino]

We all get nervous before a freakish crowd of students and professors. Whether you agree or disagree with Mrs. Kristeva this shoot is unfair.

[weknowwhereyousleep]

what's this? grow up man...

[phthphbreasts]

id still bang her

[0neironaut]

grow up.

[radicalvegan]

Absolutely brilliant. I was mesmerized. Enticed even...

[felixunus]

This is absolute bollocks! Kristeva is brilliant. Period.

[dymphna38]

But i think it remarks the innate will to speak, write; language itself in anticipation motivated by the other who speaks. To watch the anticipation surface at the skin in this way, is reactive in the restraint of not speaking; something she already knows without having to say. The "restraining order of the present" is having to listen/live through and yet already having a sense of a final outcome. The gesture is 'hysterical' once the subject of hysteria is introduced.

[Discogen]

I agree, d38, and I'm tempted to admit your take to be more convincing than my Zizek quote - except I would add that given the history of hysteria as spectacle, the very fact that this clip appears here in public view introduces the subject of hysteria. Thus the expressions of outrage in the comments. In this view it is just as appropriate and convincing to read the gesture as protest.

[Discogen]

(above two comments adapted from Zizek, Indivisible Remainder, 118)

[Discogen]

This tiny, barely perceptible tic - 'a refusal, a no, a non, this tic, this grimace, in short, this flexion of the body, this psychosomatics' - is the elementary gesture of hysteria: by means of her symptoms, the hysterical woman says 'No' to the demand of the (social) big Other to 'assume with enjoyment the very injustice at which she is horrified' - say, to pretend to find personal fulfilment and satisfaction in carrying out her 'calling' as it is defined by the ruling patriarchal order.

[Discogen]

In so far as the subject betrays the kernel of his being, he as it were cuts off the possibility of dignified retreat into tragic authenticity - what, then, remains for him but a 'No!', a gesture of denial which appears in the guise of compulsive twitches. Such a grimace, a tic that distorts the harmony of a beautiful feminine face, registers the dimension of the Real, of the subject qua 'answer of the real'.

[parispeter2]

I still think that's rather cruel. Julia is a friend, and a wonderful, profound and complex human being. I had to be pretty careful when I was showing her the Kulta Beats video for her not to see this one. I don't suppose you thought about that eventuality.

[justinechaslard]

But I think that she could ask the network to have it removed somehow, couldn't she? -- in relation to copyright infringement or something.

[lefredvoncarstein]

Don't you understand, londonseagull? She's "writing with her body". This is the epitome of "ecriture feminine". She is the supreme text of polysemy, the text that has multiple meanings, because her face means nothing and everything at once. She is being libidinous, polymorphously perverse!

[londonseagull]

Oh wow...so some poor creep shows us a video of one France's greatest contemporary thinkers having a facial tic. Go and get an education and maybe you can actually attempt to meet her on her own ground, you moron!

[mimfri]

Does this make you feel better about yourself? My goodness, we all have weaknesses...

[itaipava]

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