On Zizek As A Thought Revolutionary (20 Minute Lecture)/CTMU Through Modern Philosophy [Ep. 5]

I recommend reading the notes first as the presentation here is like a whirlwind. My apologies.

On Zizek As A Thought Revolutionary/CTMU Through Modern Philosophy [Ep. 5]

I recommend reading the notes first as the presentation here is like a whirlwind. My apologies.

Notes for Presentation

Thesis—Zizek imparts a distinct synthesis of Hegelian-Lacanian Philosophy. Reading one through the other. His school and his mission in nothing short of A presage towards Communist Revolution. Think It First then Act. Where Politics is applied Philosophy. Zizek’s formulation stands as instruction for would be thought revolutionaries, from which We can learn.

P1 – Zizek appropriates Hegel’s thought in (1) the Self-Reflective Moment of Spirit’; (2) Appearance as Essence; (3) And ‘Antagonism’ or split/gap transposed onto Reality Itself—Phenomena vs noumena.

P2 – Zizek uses Lacanian Anti-Philosophy to read Hegel: (1) Gordian Knot of Symbolic-Real-Imaginary, (2) Death Drive; (3) Mirror Stage & Object petite a.

P3 – A New Dialectical Materialism: (1) Synthesis of Opposites vs cut/localization; (2) Whole System connected to itself vs cuts/isolation; (3) Leaps and bounds vs setback, two steps backward; (4) Antagonism fundamental to reality.

P4 – Think and Act in Revolution [wait during impasses apropos Lenin]; Politics as Applied Philosophy.

P5 – Where Zizek Fails is “Everywhere.” The bankruptcy of Atheism-Materialism-Communism. Foundations of Sand.

Where We see Langan As the Restoration of the Natural Order in Whole Cloth (not just academic quibbling, but resolving the fundamental antagonisms in reality in hitherto present philosophy).