The Image of Fish - Žižek, Narrative, and Transformation

A short video addressing a blog post from Matt Gallion. It deals with Biblical Hermeneutics, Paul Ricoeur, the usefulness (or not) of stories, and the role that reading plays in seeing the world differently. More info can be found on http://theimageoffish.com

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Zizek
• Chomsky
• Paul Ricoeur
• Hermeneutics

[Krelianx]

Zizek, of all people, would fiercely resist this idea of 'coming into contact with the pre-rational imaginative'. For him, this quasi-phenomenological obsession with lived experience is part of our epoch's anti-Platonist obsession to try to locate the kernel of human experience somehow behind theory in something like immediacy or an expressive subjectivity. But Zizek is a Hegelian; there is nothing more abstract than 'experience' without mediation, without thought's specificity.

[1noen1]

I don't think trying to appropriate Zizek works to your favor. He's still an atheist ya know. He is also pretty dismissive of the postmodern cant of "an enemy is friend who's story you have yet to hear". For good reason.

[shipwrecks09]

i for one know that upon the eve of a hypothetical neo-communist future when members of the ruling class are to be shot and hung, that their narratives, their stories of love and loss told with their last breath, all genuine evidence of their individual complexities, revealing the insides of what is not a caricatured monster but a flesh and blood being, would illicit only a flinch before pulling the trigger.

but the story that helped me pull the trigger on the other hand. so i see your point.

[francopalombo]

facts and statements are a powerful modern stile of poetry.

take: 2+2=4

[mahyarmohaghegh]

I will not argue with you cause i simply agree with you and Zizek i guess that only through a parralax view can we understand ourselves. or in hegelian terms only through the other can we become self conscious.

isnt judgement really the displacement of your-self into someone you cannot understand? what i mean is something you might like, that of Khalil Ghibran, the lebenese Poet they ask him where he learned his morals, he responds by saying from the "immoral".