Slavoj Zizek, The Liberal Utopia, Athens 2007 (1/8)

I like this thinker, very impressed. Thanks for the series mboudour!

Regarding our rage at China being possibly connected to our culture's similarities to China's, this Walter Benjamin quote seems a propos:

"In an aversion to animals the predominant feeling is fear of being recognized by them through contact. The horror that stirs deep in man is an obscure awareness that in him something lives so akin to the animal that it might be recognized. All disgust is originally disgust at touching."

Put your phones on silence you morons.

Seriously

thanks for uploading this

It seems your username suits you perfectly. I suppose you act like a "farmer", you think like a "farmer", you comment like one. Still, I strongly believe you are a poor excuse of a "farmer". Your (obvious) mediocrity prevents you from even standing up to your name.

is it possible not to love zizek?

Why don't people turn off their fucking phones before going to a lecture?! And why didn't everyone check their phones when that first idiot's phone rang?  People are idiots...

A petty attempt to disturb the lecture by some vulgs who dont like Zizek?