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 xineann rated 11 months ago -
Slavoj Žižek ~ Documentary
What would be my spontaneous attitude towards the universe? It's a very dark one. The first thesis would have been a kind of total vanity. There is nothing basically. I mean quite literally. Like ultimately there are just some fragments, some anyth...
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- Perko rated 11 months ago
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Zizek! (2005)
http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=zizek
- xineann rated 11 months ago
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Slavoj Žižek ~ Documentary
What would be my spontaneous attitude towards the universe? It's a very dark one. The first thesis would have been a kind of total vanity. There is nothing basically. I mean quite literally. Like ultimately there are just some fragments, some anything things. If you look at the universe, it's one big void. But then how do things emerge?
Here, I feel a kind of spontaneous affinity with quantum physics where you know the idea there is that the universe is a void but a kind of positively charged void. And then particular things appear when the balance of the void is disturbed.
And I like this idea spontaneously very much, the fact that it's not just nothing. Things are out there -- it means something that went terribly wrong, that what we call creation is a kind of cosmic imbalance, cosmic catastrophe, that things exist by mistake. And I am even ready to go to the end and to claim that the only way to counteract this is to assume the mistake and go to the end and we have a name for this is it called Love. Isn't Love precisely this kind of cosmic imbalance?
Slavoj Žižek
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- ivanananan rated 8 months ago
- What would be my spontaneous attitude towards the universe? It's a very dark one. The first thesis would have been a kind of total vanity. There is nothing basically. I mean quite literally. Like ultimately there are just some fragments, some vanishing things. If you look at the universe, it's one big void. But then how do things emerge? Here, I feel a kind of spontaneous affinity with quantum physics where you know, the idea there is that the universe is a void but a kind of positively charged void. And then particular things appear when the balance of the void is disturbed. And I like this idea spontaneously very much, the fact that it's not just nothing. Things are out there -- it means that something went terribly wrong, that what we call creation is a kind of cosmic imbalance, cosmic catastrophe, that things exist by mistake. And I am even ready to go to the end and to claim that the only way to counteract this is to assume the mistake and go to the end and we have a name for this is it called Love. Isn't Love precisely this kind of cosmic imbalance? I was always disgusted with this notion of "I-love-the-world", "universal-love"- I don't like the world. I don't know, I'm somewhere in between "I-hate-the-world" or "I'm-indifferent-towards-it". But the whole of reality is just it- it's stupid, it's out there, and I don't care about it. Love for me is an extremly violent act. Love is not "I-love-you-all". Love means that I pick out something and regain this structure of imbalance. Even if this something is just a small detail, fragile individual person, i say "I love you more than anything else". In this formal sense, love is evil.
- cromagnum55 rated 6 months ago
- Žižek! Academic rock star.
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