By: Sticherbeast
It's common for Zizek to simplify his pop culture references even to the point of making mistakes; it is also rumored that he often writes analyses of films he hasn't even seen, basing them off...
View ArticleBy: matkline
It's common for Zizek to simplify his pop culture references even to the point of making mistakes; it is also rumored that he often writes analyses of films he hasn't even seen, basing them off...
View ArticleBy: artof.mulata
Zizek's requalification is not a 'get off my lawn.' Where the hell do you people get this shit? (And if you are of a mind that wikileaks has been overanalyzed then I suspect that you might be a victim...
View ArticleBy: Saxon Kane
Re: The Dark Knight analogy: Also remember that the Joker repeatedly lies, just as do Batman, Dent, and Gordon: he tells at least 2 different stories about his scars (and starts to tell a 3rd), and...
View ArticleBy: sonika
He lost me as soon as he dropped the Batman analogy. I guess this shows the extent of my own mental prowess in thinking about Wikileaks. Now, if Julian Assange had six different stories for why his...
View ArticleBy: cdward
The Joker doesn't want truth, he wants chaos. [...] The Joker is an anarchist. That's not what "anarchist" means. How about using "a discordian" or "a real jerk" instead?
View ArticleBy: dougrayrankin
n unnamed Australian MP articulated this position much more honestly & succinctly than Žižek, or the various mefis I've seen oppose wikileaks, when he said "The Catholic Church shut down Galileo...
View ArticleBy: humanfont
What is the difference between these protests and a bunch of progressive student uniok folks milling about on campus? The U Delaware gang can't even be bothered to drive down to Dupont Circle DC from...
View ArticleBy: hal_c_on
Well, an interesting article... it explains what I was trying to in some other wikileaks thread about how sometimes lies/secrets are actually necessary to maintain the status quo, and that Assange's...
View ArticleBy: notion
Yeah, and he'd probably also be shocked by the lack of slavery"There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery." Washington in a letter...
View ArticleBy: sk932
I personally think that Julian Assange is much creepier looking than the Joker.
View ArticleBy: jeffburdges
Žižek claim that "WikiLeaks threatens is the formal functioning of power" is just patently absurd, an epitome of "get off my lawn". Yes, wikileaks may change the formal functioning of power, fine. You...
View ArticleBy: memebake
The question is, if Assange learned the true identity of Batman would he publish it?
View ArticleBy: kliuless
Jaron Lanier on WikiLeaksBruce Sterling on WikiLeaks, cf. Clay Shirky on WikiLeaksEthan Zuckerman looking forward to more reflections on Wikileaks
View ArticleBy: clavdivs
A supreme case of tact in politics is the secret meeting between Alvaro Cunhal, the leader of the Portuguese Communist Party, and Ernesto Melo Antunes, a pro-democracy member of the army grouping...
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