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Zizek! [DVD] [2007] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Price: £10.99
Average customer rating: 3.0

Binding : DVD
EAN : 0795975108034
Label : Zeitgeist Films
Manufacturer : Zeitgeist Films
Publisher : Zeitgeist Films
Release date : 2006-07-25
Title : Zizek! [DVD] [2007] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actor : Slavoj Zizek
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 2007-05-04
Region code : 1
Running time : 71
Studio : Zeitgeist Films
Theatrical releaseDate : 2005
MPN : ZEIDZ1080D

Customer reviews

review by: a-beautiful-idea date: 2009-01-29 rating:

A Zizekian paradigm shift?
Im sorry but we have to seperate Zizek's charm and charisma from his methodology. br / br /What Zizek propounds is basically profundity disguised as cleverness, and offers a hilarious piece of comedy for this age. This is because the truth is vouchsafe and so can stand on its own two feet. It doesn't need to be cloaked by jargon and profundity you see. br / br /So I believe that Zizek's post-modernism narcotizes the intellect and stifles all real progress. This is because it promotes a fantastic elevation of Psychoanalytic and Marxist theory, thus announcing the hollowest anti-scientific jargon since man first put finger to pen. br / br /For example, Zizek is forever hyping up the likes of Hegel and Lacan. Hegel is his main source of inspiration you see. Lacan is his second, being early 20th century and all that! Zizek should try looking to more modern philosophers rather than Hegel and Lacan. The spell that these thinkers have cast over him not only make him blind to other philosophies, but to science itself. Thus when you read Zizek you will not find much in the way of 21st century ideas like genetics or evolution. I wonder why that is? Zizek sticks to the 19th century with Hegelian logic but what about the works of Godel or Frege? Albert Einstein doesn't even get a shout out! br / br /Zizek is rightly critical of "New-Age obscurantism". But I believe that he discredits himself with his fixation on the hard-to-fathom Hegel and Lacan. So he will write some good solid prose but after a few paragraphs break into a Lacanian rant about the hidden meaning of toilets! br / br /This is just my personal bias, but I believe that Zizek is obviously an intelligent bloke but scribbles nonsense for the fame and glory. He propounds ideas without feeling, such as Stalin humanizing us all! Now please substitute Stalin for Hitler and see how clever it sounds. Statements without logic are just wrong. br / br /So if you can stand 500 pages of this and don't feel as if you were in a police state trying to get out, then you have qualified as a vanguardist for the coming Zizekian paradigm shift. br / br /An alternative to the Anglo-Saxon ideas? Not a chance. The world and her struggles have moved on from this sort of proletarian theology.

review by: date: 2006-08-05 rating:

Not knowing whether to laugh or cry
Sometimes you watch a film and come away from it thinking that you have seen something genuinely unique and astonishing. The problem arises when the film is about a single person. Just watching the frenetic genius of Zizek and his formidable honesty forces a feeling of complete inadequacy. br /This film is sensational - it is wonderful to see someone who is absolutely burning with ideas, genuinely funny and completely human. His lecture on Casablanca in the deleted scenes is worth getting the DVD alone. br /You watch the film, trying to keep up with the man, learning and laughing at the same time. br /Really something.

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