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Slavoj Zizek - The perverts guide to ideology

• What is the thesis?
• What is he saying?

When we think we escape it in our dreams, at that point we are in ideology.

They Live - 1988

The sunglasses allow you to see the real message

We live in a post-ideological society: realise your true potential Illusion that we know who our true and free self is. Ideology is operating in a different way: ideology is our spontaneous relation to the world

Ideology is a filter not a distortion. It is an illusion that ideology is something trust upon us, it is something we inhabit.

We in a way enjoy our ideology. You must force yourself to step out of ideology, it hurts. This is the paradox we have to accept. The extreme violence of liberation. Freedom hurts.

Dictatorship within democracy

The idea of false conciousness has a underlying idea that there is a true conciousness

Sound of music - 1965

Enjoyment and simple pleasures are not the same. True message: pretend to renounce and 'you can get it on' Feel guilty not because of eccesive pleasures, guilty for not enjoying enough.

Psycho analyses, it s the idea of an institution, not to restrict you. You are free to do whatever you want, but under my wing. Two modes of ideology: climb every mountain, follow your dream. Do not betray your desire. Prescription, edict: responsibility.

A commodity is never a simple object. Its presence always reflects an invisible trancendence. Enjoyment becomes a weird perverted duty. The object and the surplus value.

Always a desire for desire itself. Ultamite desire is the melancholic loss of desire itself.

The objects cause of ideology is exces(?)

Examples: coke and the kinder egg. Desire is a receiding horizon.

The big other What is the big other: Psychoanalyses and Marxism.

Beethoven - 9th symphony was used in all kinds of different societies. Nazi Germany, China, Socialism. Ode to joy

This is how ideology works: it's an empty container, you never know it's depths, Je kunt het op vanalles toepassen en het blijft gelden. Je kunt er values aan geven. Void container that allows for many meanings to excist. Adaptable and mobile. Neoliberal ideology:

The Clockwork Orange.

Westside Story. How can you know all this, but still do it? It's always a private dream. Can be an ordinary one. We all have this margin of freedom in deciding how we subjectivize these objective circumstances.

Taxi Driver. (in relation to Breivik's shooting)

Fantasy is the central stuff our ideology is made of.

humanitarian intervention: we try to help them but what if they dont want our help. Stockholm syndrome?

Function of the lie: The lie is not untruth, but it covers over an insufficiency / inconsistency(?). Fantasy.

Violence is produced when there is a symbolic deadlock.

Jaws (film): Big danger threatening ordinary society.

ideology: filter/frame: Opens the abyss of suspicion

Racism: group of people tries to steal our enjoyment, our way of life. Related to some perverted enjoyment

Rammstein takes a very minimal element and liberates this element of their nazi ideology. there are a lot of tics. There is a certain loss we feel when you break away from the ideology. Loss of the elements you were invested in. So it's a way of reinvesting them

Height of our consumerism. Ultimate form: Starbucks: You don't only buy coffee, you also buy ideology. Be a consumer without bad concience. You pay a little bit more, but you then also do your duty to society and environment.

Capitalism is always in crisis: crisis is not it's obstacle, but it pushes it forwards to reproduction. ---> Heaps of waste. We need to accept this waste. There are things out there that serve nothing.

Walter Benjamin: We experience history when we see this waste of culture. Not when things move. We see the devistated human environment. Inertia of the real (?)

small surplus element: like a couple in a movie, is what attracts us. This is how ideology works.

You take obsene suppliment away and the military machine stops working Military chants: part nonsense, part ...

If you overidentify with it, if you become this superego, it's selfdestructive. If you really believe in the ideology its selfdestructive, so the way to survive is to figure out whats behind it.

the truth is too strong: politicians should shield. Noble lie. Like in batman

Sartre: If there is no God than everything is permitted not true: If there is God than everything is permitted If you perceive yourself as a direct instrument of the devine will

Even if its ateism: stalinism as well. In the stalinist universe there definately is what we call the big other. It has many names. The nessecity of progress. History itself.

Leaders/dictators are perfect servants. Who are the perfects servants today? (Nadine: Google) Servants to the big other.

The big other 1. the big other is the secret order of things, faith, controlling our destiny 2. order of appearances. Many things that are prohibited, are not actually prohibitet but should not happen in front of the big other. Maintain appearances.

ideology of the west: you are free.