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Location: New York, NY / Event Date: 04.04.11
Summary: The Committee on Globalization and Social Change will launch with a special lecture by philosopher and critic Slavoj Zizek who will speak on "The Situation Is Catastrophic, but Not Serious." This alleged message of the Austrian military headquarters during WWI renders perfectly our attitude towards the ongoing crisis: we are aware of the looming (ecological, social) catastrophes, but we somehow don't take them seriously. What ideology sustains such an attitude?
[ h/t DMF ]
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Zizek on totality (sounding very derridean) is a good antidote to the tendency to start singing along with notions that suggest that we should wake up to realize that we are the eyes of the world.
here (after a very long intro) is Rorty on naturalism vs quietism:
http://french-italian.stanford.edu/opinions/
go to November 22, 2005
-dmf
http://french-italian.stanford.edu/opinions/
check out: January 11, 2011 Andrea Nightingale on Moby Dick, and "overflow"
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