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Speech at the launching ceremony of the book by Fernando Castro “And so on and so on. (Tres días en las redes de Žižek)” published by CENDEAC.
29 May 2019
SPEECH
Title_All those things you wanted to know about #Žižek and you didn’t want to ask to the toilet.
Summary_A revision of Slavoj Žižek’s work which is, without the slightest doubt, one of the decisive philosophers of the 21st century. The book “And so on and so on. (Tres días en las redes de Žižek)”, published by CENDEAC on the collection “Infraleves”, by Fernando Castro Flórez, is a sort of work journal that shows the abyss between the philosopher’s image on social media and what his theorical production means.
It’s curious that almost everybody has “an opinion” on Žižek and none of them read anything by him. Anyone can say the Slovenian philosopher is “stupid, a clown, a fascist, a mentally-ill person” without the need of reading a volume such as “In defense of lost causes”, which has page after page of brainy arguments, intense interpretations, and radical analytical perspectives. To a large extent, “the case of Žižek” is symptomatic - that’s the way it went for the “digital revolution”. We tend to jump to conclusions and mess things up, to lynch unknown people, harass our neighbors, let out insults at the backyard - the computer blabbermouth. Good judgement doesn’t matter, standards were (long ago) thrown out to the rubbish bin of History.
In this speech, Fernando Castro shows an (self-serving) scenario of Žižek thought, not with the intention of “agreeing” with him, nor merely to educate in a (pseudo) academic way, but to try and polemize, and even have fun, but taking seriously what we are up to. When he refers to the “toilet” as something that will “respond” to us, it’s not about a scatological psychophony, but an allusion to a well-known Zizekian joke about national ways of thinking.
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