things I (mis)heard Žižek say in between other things
My notes/scribblings on/during Slavoj Žižek's speech, "Das Jahr der gefährlichen Träume," in Heidelberg, 25 Feb 2013.
I attended this speech with Daniel, who took his own notes.
Introduction
- spontan - nichts für schwache Nerven - biedere Details
Žižek
- "how to read Hegel today"
- "return to our situation"
- "anti-colonialist orgasms"
- gap between hopes, expectation, and reality (is when/where revolution happens)
- TJ Cark (DJ Clarke?)
- "Hölderlin paradigm": "Wo das Gefahr ist, wächst das Rettende (?) auf (?)"
- "proletariat terra cotta army" (a golem army?)
- "now comes the little more boring philosophical part"
- the phrasing "thesis, antithesis, synthesis" is NOT Hegel
- the Fall a story of woman humanizing man, of animals becoming HUMAN
- "I'm opposed to Islam, don't get me wrong."
- "Truth cannot be approached except via the Big Other."
- "the filthiest way to be evil" - (cf. Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway: "Villains there must be, and God knows the rascals who get hanged for battering the brains of a girl out in a train do less harm on the whole than Hugh Whitbread and his kindness.")
- "every human had to fall so that Christ could come and save some of us"
- "Oh, what a horrible wound!"
- mobiustripping (what is found only comes into being by being left behind)
- "Ghandi was a proto-fascist"
- "what we lost is retroactively created by the very process of loss"
- the X in "Malcolm X"
- "the way to truly emancipate yourself is to beat the colonizers at their own game" (to take their language from them)
- "every language is a foreign, parasitic intruder"
- "we begin with a fall, and we end by accepting that fall; we accept 'die Wunde'"
- "Hegel: philosophy only paints gray on gray" (cf. exhibition at AIC where the artist (Hito Steyerl) performed a kind of archaeology on Adorno's lecture hall to see if he truly had painted it gray) - "the necessity of the illusion" - "all great thoughts emerge by mistake"