Lowkey though Ljubljana is an absolutely wonderful city to visit that is way cozier than I was expecting. Slovenia in general is a super underrated country.
I like him. Been reading his books. He explains things in ways which are compelling and interesting sounding, but they don't really make sense unless you know exactly where he's coming from, generally.
Or maybe I'm just a dummy who has bought into the cult idk
He's entertaining, I dont dislike him. I just judge by this maxim: "If you cant explain it simply, you dont understand it well enough."
Sounds like math theory books written by math PhDs for PhDs understanding, while I was like "for fuck sake I don't know what euclidean means nor what does that has to do with a tensor whatever that is, just tell me how to multiply matrices"
I've got a degree in physics and happened to take a very rigorous course on linear algebra early on. Tensors are two months of doing exercises blind until one day it clicks and it becomes obvious. The funny thing is that once I got it I realised that well over half of my professors who pretended to use tensors in their lectures—all very knowledgeable and experts in their fields—didn't actually understand the notation.
I’ve got a degree in physics
I flunked out in my first year. I think Tensors were material from the 2nd semester.
In the very center (POIs within walking distance of each other):
- Dragon bridge
- Butchers' bridge
- Tromostovje (3 bridges over the river Ljubljanica)
- Cobblers' bridge
- Prešeren square
- Congress square
- Pogačar square
- Town square
Near the center (within walking distance but takes a bit more time):
- Museum of National History
- Museum of Modern Art
- the National Gallery (^ these 3 are very close to each other)
- the Ljubljana Castle (absolute must-visit)
- Prule (a nice quick stroll along the Ljubljanica from the center)
- University of Ljubljana botanical gardens (just across the river from Prule)
- Park Tivoli
- Rožnik (a hill above Park Tivoli, ain't much but it's a nice walk)
- Republic square (if you're into brutalism, there's two Big Beautiful Brutalist Buildings on a Big Beatiful Brutalist square)
Thank you, I like to plan trips. I will never be able to make 99,9% of them, but Slovenia is not that imposible
All of the former Yugoslavia rules so much. It's very cheap, the people are great, the food is great, and it isn't that touristy yet.
Yeah, before Rona I was going to go there, I even have family. All my musaka dreams shattered
no problem comrade! Ljubljana is a rather small city and there isn't much to see outside of it's center but it makes for a great quick and affordable trip. if you want to see even more of Slovenia I'd recommend Maribor, Murska Sobota and Nova Gorica/Gorizia or more rural sites like Logarska dolina or Triglav (the tallest peak in former Yugoslavia) if you're into mountains.
I did this a few years ago and it was fantastic. Ljubljana is a great hub, and there's buses to pretty much everywhere you'd want to go in Slovenia. Definitely check out Vintgar Gorge too, which is near Lake Bled and is a gorgeous river running through a gorge you can hike in.
Day trip out to Predjama castle, it's a castle in a cave and it's the absolute coolest shit ever
Also made famous in a hilariously awesome Jackie Chan movie called Armour of God.
Sometimes when I'm all out of booze for the night, am super drunk, I put on random Zizek lectures or videos and just sorta zone out to it while going to sleep. Idk why, but it's something I end up doing often. It works too, cause it takes him like 20 minutes addressing unrelated things before he gets into the actual lecture. Like two nights ago I watched the Hegelian Wound lecture and slept like a baby
i don't seem to mind it too much, but im pretty weird and find the way he speaks quirky more than annoying. But he'll occasionally take too long to get to a point that i had already forgotten what it was about does annoy me. idk, i actually really like Zizek, maybe cause i didn't ever go to college so im not sick and tired of academics or "intellectuals" talking about crazy shit so much. He is just really funny to me, even if i don't understand what he means sometimes, he'll occasionally say something super profound to me that makes me laugh super hard
He's way more concise in his books. Imo he's not a very good public speaker and needs someone to reign him in, but he's really good at explaining complicated concepts when he's writing.
absolutely. did you ever watch the Jordan Peterson "debate" with him? That shit though, was so fucking funny. Like he got JP to agree with so much shit, and was able to deconstruct his stupid ass ignorant arguments almost every point raised. JP is a fucking idiot, like I knew he was before watching, but when faced with someone who actually knows a thing or two about communist theory and a broad range of philosophy. It was so worth having to listen to the whiny ass voice jordan peterson has
yeah the debate was so funny to me. for my life i can't believe why Jordan Peterson, a psychology teacher at a renowned instutiton, was completely unaware of anything authored by Zizek, the most prominent Lacanian right fucking now. But here we are
And like it's so silly, there'd obviously common ground somewhere, especially for a debate labeled "pursuit of happiness" or whatever. I know i'm probably stating the obvious, but I don't think Peterson is a very good psychology teacher lol
Nah you nailed it, I think JP is the type of person who did study all the requirements to get his degree, but as soon as he finished he never touched another book in the field. I'm sure he still reads but I don't think he reads anything relevant anymore. He strikes me as the type of person who found a sorta niche in his field and just never looked back or at criticisms. It did work out though, as much as the right calls out "liberal" academia, they froth at the mouth when they find someone in it who will validate their ideology.
