Slavoj Zizek reviews some recent film and TV offerings, including Squid Game, Denis Villeneuve's Dune remake, and No Time to Die.Subscribe to the channel and...
I mean, depends? If you read his books then Zizek actually operates the other way around, he wants to communicate an abstract idea and then presents an appropriate example to illustrate it, usually he gets his examples from movies, books, plays and sometimes from jokes. But Zizek on the Pervert's Guide series of movies and on interviews he does more run-of-the-mill media analysis which is sometimes iffy, he himself admits sometimes he doesn't even watch the stuff he's analyzing, he cobbles together his conception of certain movies through trailers and second-hand opinions and summaries. So there.
he himself admits sommetimes he doesn’t even watch the stuff he’s analyzing, he cobbles together his conception of certain movies through trailers and second-hand opinions and summaries.
That is pretty funny as a bit if he led with this.
I think the chapo guys ask him for his opinion on the joker or whatever, and he pretty much blurts out that he doesn't watch movies before giving his opinion anyway. it was pretty funny.
I remember reading a critique of Zizek by some dude which was like 'is Zizek literate', I figured it was bad translations while looking through a Derridian lense, now I understand, he just doesn't do the source reading himself, the end lol.
I mean, depends? If you read his books then Zizek actually operates the other way around, he wants to communicate an abstract idea and then presents an appropriate example to illustrate it, usually he gets his examples from movies, books, plays and sometimes from jokes. But Zizek on the Pervert's Guide series of movies and on interviews he does more run-of-the-mill media analysis which is sometimes iffy, he himself admits sometimes he doesn't even watch the stuff he's analyzing, he cobbles together his conception of certain movies through trailers and second-hand opinions and summaries. So there.
That is pretty funny as a bit if he led with this.
I think the chapo guys ask him for his opinion on the joker or whatever, and he pretty much blurts out that he doesn't watch movies before giving his opinion anyway. it was pretty funny.
I remember reading a critique of Zizek by some dude which was like 'is Zizek literate', I figured it was bad translations while looking through a Derridian lense, now I understand, he just doesn't do the source reading himself, the end lol.