the dude looks like he sleeps in a dumpster, went on chapo, double-fists hotdogs, has a goofy speech impediment, clearly does loads of coke and shat on america with dirty jokes - aesthetically, what's not to like?
then, those of us who read actually read his writings and immediately cringed
I think he has had some good takes in the past (but I never followed him closely or saw more than the occasional excerpt of his writing), he's just become increasingly incoherent and reactionary over the past several years. Maybe he's angling to be the next Nick Land and found the New-Neo-Reactionary movement or something, or maybe his brain's just fried.
Actually I'm seeing a ton of parallels between him and Nick Land now: both were incomprehensible quasi left contrarians, and both pivoted from that into just straight up incomprehensible contrarian reactionaries.
Although even before that he was more a meme than anything.
The early 2010s were so devoid of publically leftist intellectuals that bottom of the barrel people like him were latched onto.
Also, lots of the current terminally online left were baby leftists back then.
Zizek, Chomsky, Varoufakis, Richard Wolff and the like. Is there even anyone like that today, beyond the rediscovery of Michael Parenti? It feels like the 2h lecture by a usually radlib intellectual has been replaced by the podcast with usually equally weak politics.
I would put Varoufakis and Wolff into a different category. I feel like they don’t actively harm the left like Zizek and Chomsky often do. Like, they’re good for baby leftists and understanding the problems inherent in capitalism even if their solutions (which I think both spend very little time discussing) aren’t all that great.
why did people ever think zizek was cool
or was it just that no one could understand him but he sounded like he could be a leftist because he was unintelligible and verbose
the dude looks like he sleeps in a dumpster, went on chapo, double-fists hotdogs, has a goofy speech impediment, clearly does loads of coke and shat on america with dirty jokes - aesthetically, what's not to like?
then, those of us who read actually read his writings and immediately cringed
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"Pervert's Guide to Ideology," mainly. Also this one.
damn that's a great clip
It is, I quote it (and the They Live sequence) pretty often because they are very useful perspectives for parsing living in neoliberalism.
He also looks like a leftist
I think he has had some good takes in the past (but I never followed him closely or saw more than the occasional excerpt of his writing), he's just become increasingly incoherent and reactionary over the past several years. Maybe he's angling to be the next Nick Land and found the New-Neo-Reactionary movement or something, or maybe his brain's just fried.
Actually I'm seeing a ton of parallels between him and Nick Land now: both were incomprehensible quasi left contrarians, and both pivoted from that into just straight up incomprehensible contrarian reactionaries.
Although even before that he was more a meme than anything.
Cause he’s already eating, every day, from the trash can of ideology.
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even when I can understand him I wonder wtf he's talking about
The early 2010s were so devoid of publically leftist intellectuals that bottom of the barrel people like him were latched onto.
Also, lots of the current terminally online left were baby leftists back then.
Zizek, Chomsky, Varoufakis, Richard Wolff and the like. Is there even anyone like that today, beyond the rediscovery of Michael Parenti? It feels like the 2h lecture by a usually radlib intellectual has been replaced by the podcast with usually equally weak politics.
I would put Varoufakis and Wolff into a different category. I feel like they don’t actively harm the left like Zizek and Chomsky often do. Like, they’re good for baby leftists and understanding the problems inherent in capitalism even if their solutions (which I think both spend very little time discussing) aren’t all that great.
Political English literature is just a wasteland of trash
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scientologists make some banger music and movies.
His media critique was good, everything else not so much
People saw his weirdly colorless sweaters and thought he must be an academic marxist