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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
funny
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
In the end this book was too much Žižek.
Often lacks in useful context, but otherwise a good introduction to Zizek's sense of humour.
such a shame that i didnt get them all (is it a shame though
Žižek is a bit like the font comic sans, be wary of anyone who is too much in love with or too much opposed to the media personality of Slavoj Žižek. He is in many ways someone I deeply enjoy, and I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt in his more abrasive moments and assume, given what he says clearly, that he tries to make a clever wraparound argument via jokes and "silliness" and often falls flat or says something that reinforces the thing I _think_ he is attempting to mock. (Or, he ends up being crude because that's how he's decided to be funny, who knows?)
In a weird way I hope he's the last of his generation of comedians (I know this won't be the case, because that's not how influence or culture works :) ... I want to see someone with his intersection of interests and his willingness to be obtuse, but with an upgraded baseline where sexual violence or boring hetero battles of the sexes are not considered for lazy punchlines, for example.
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But to the jokes. They're not funny :) But they give me exactly what I want, which is awkward delivery of cynicism and shaggy dog stories while using a casual philosophical understanding and soviet humour tropes. They remind me a lot of my friends, nerdy academicians or nerdy programmer types, where we try to tell a joke but it's clear that we're [badly] using the humour to actually explore some geeky thing underneath ... why is why our jokes are bad and most people roll their eyes, but so it goes.
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I get that Zizek is about as philosophically sound as Ayn Rand, but I do appreciate at least his approach. And I _feel_, though perhaps I am wrong, that his arguments are trying to further the world to a better place or at least point people to if even if I don't think his audience necessarily sees it that way or if it's even all that effective in the first place. There's an amount of cynical distrust of everything, authority, truth, belief, other people, etc... that I really respect, but I feel like with the one glaring exception of needing to have really gendered humour at women's expense [probably less because of any opinions re: women but just because "that's just the way jokes are, jokes about shrill wives is a classic avenue"]. Maybe I'm wrong, I'm not a zizek junkie, but what little I've read of his stuff makes me feel its a weak point as compared to a foundational position even if I would not begrudge people who decide they have no time for this.
Anyway this is awesome dad joke humour, but that means it falls within the same constraints and flows of traditional dad joke humour even if it's covering a fresh space within that realm.
In a weird way I hope he's the last of his generation of comedians (I know this won't be the case, because that's not how influence or culture works :) ... I want to see someone with his intersection of interests and his willingness to be obtuse, but with an upgraded baseline where sexual violence or boring hetero battles of the sexes are not considered for lazy punchlines, for example.
--
But to the jokes. They're not funny :) But they give me exactly what I want, which is awkward delivery of cynicism and shaggy dog stories while using a casual philosophical understanding and soviet humour tropes. They remind me a lot of my friends, nerdy academicians or nerdy programmer types, where we try to tell a joke but it's clear that we're [badly] using the humour to actually explore some geeky thing underneath ... why is why our jokes are bad and most people roll their eyes, but so it goes.
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I get that Zizek is about as philosophically sound as Ayn Rand, but I do appreciate at least his approach. And I _feel_, though perhaps I am wrong, that his arguments are trying to further the world to a better place or at least point people to if even if I don't think his audience necessarily sees it that way or if it's even all that effective in the first place. There's an amount of cynical distrust of everything, authority, truth, belief, other people, etc... that I really respect, but I feel like with the one glaring exception of needing to have really gendered humour at women's expense [probably less because of any opinions re: women but just because "that's just the way jokes are, jokes about shrill wives is a classic avenue"]. Maybe I'm wrong, I'm not a zizek junkie, but what little I've read of his stuff makes me feel its a weak point as compared to a foundational position even if I would not begrudge people who decide they have no time for this.
Anyway this is awesome dad joke humour, but that means it falls within the same constraints and flows of traditional dad joke humour even if it's covering a fresh space within that realm.
Ο Ζίζεκ έχει μια σκέψη εξαιρετικά προσαρμοσμένη στην αναγνώριση συγκεκριμένων καταστατικών δομών. Καθώς σκέφτεται κάτι που συμβαίνει στον πραγματικό κόσμο, αναγνωρίζει ξαφνικά ότι έχει την ίδια βασική δομή με μια παράλογη κατάσταση σε ένα ανέκδοτο που άκουσε, συχνά από μια εξαιρετικά σεβαστή πηγή, τον Ντεριντά ή τον Λακάν ή τον Φρόιντ.
challenging
funny
informative
reflective
fast-paced
واحد من أمتع الكتب اللي قريتها وأخدت فيها وقت كبير. سلاڤوي چيچيك بقى المفضل ليا خلاص في الفلاسفة المعاصرين بفضل تفاصيل صغيرة زي النكت دي. انه يربط افكاره الفلسفية وتعقيداتها وعبثيتها ويلاقي نكت فيها نفس الحتة دي وينزلهم في كتاب دي حاجة مش سهلة ومعتقدش حد عملها قبل كدا بنفس الطريقة دي. اعتقد هقراله كتاب تاني اتقل من دا قريب❤️
the best way out of racism is to make racist jokes about everyone