Revolutionary Parallax: Bartleby Politics | Ch 6 of The Parallax View | Zizek

[@coltonroyle2341]

Thank you so much for your hard work! You seem to be uniquely positioned to take this material on.

[@josephsuruiz]

thank you so much for your free lectures.

[@MystifulHD]

Amazing. Can you please do a Hegel series, he’s an interesting one to tackle for sure.

[@stal5143]

There is plenty of hegel on KZbin already. You can look at Todd McGowan's channel for some shorter videos, and Gregory B Sadler covers the entire phenomenology of spirit, the playlist is up on his channel.

[@MystifulHD]

@@stal5143 just like there is plenty zizek? I like his style?

[@SingularityasSublimity]

Thank you for your comment and request. At this moment, it’s more of a matter of bandwidth on my part. I plan to continue the Lacan and Phenomenology series indefinitely. Beyond that, sprinkling in some other texts when I can. The resources mentioned by stal5143 are excellent and, at the same time, great texts like Hegel’s demand multiple voices since every reading is also a misreading.

[@MystifulHD]

@@SingularityasSublimity(paradoxically)

[@Ltrsandnmbrs]

So the question I’m left with Zizek over and over again is: And of the economic? Just like all the criticism he gives to Heidegger and Badiou, Zizek does the same in refusing to address political economy as the primary class struggle and suggests just opting out of it entirely? If Bartleby existed in the real material world we live in, he would be left to die without a second thought. Just like Zizek can’t separate Heidegger from his thought from Nazism (which he is right to do), I can’t separate Zizek from his liberal, capitalist advocacy and ideology in Yugoslavia. I’m sorry but real people advocating for something other than capitalism don’t write for the Guardian.

[@SingularityasSublimity]

you’ve made a strong argument against Zizek using his own logic against him. I ended up being unconvinced by Bartleby politics in the way he presents it in this book. Thank you for this very thoughtful critique!