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| - | Via Belgian blogger [[Martin Pulaski]] comes [[What does it mean to be a revolutionary today?]][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GD69Cc20rw], [[Slavoj Zizek]]'s response to | + | :''[[Therm-a-Rest]]'' |
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| - | At exactly 21:55 comes a [[hilarious]] joke on the [[self-inflatibility]] of [[resistance]] which is actually quite futile. | + | |
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| - | In the good old days -- now comes the dirty conclusion, I've warned you, it's really dirty -- in the good old days of really existing socialism a [[joke]] was popular among [[dissidents]]. A joke used to illustrate the futility of their progresses. In 15th century Russia, occupied by Mongols, that's the joke, a farmer and his wife walked along a dusty country road, a mongol warrior on a horse stops at their side and tells the farmer that he will now rape his wife. He then adds, but since their is a lot of dust on the ground, you should hold my testicles, while I am raping your wife so that they do not get dusty -- dirty. After the Mongol finishes his job and rides away, the farmer starts to laugh and jump with joy. The surprised wife asks him: "How can you be jumping with joy when I just brutally raped?" The farmer answers: "But I got him! His balls were full of dust." | + | |
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| - | This sad joke tells of the [[predicament]] of dissidents. They thought they were dealing serious blows to the party nomenclatura. But all they were doing was getting a little bit of dust on the nomenclatura's testicles. | + | |
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| - | What is so brilliant in this piece of "[[toilet philosophy]]"[http://jahsonic.wordpress.com/2007/01/06/toilet-philosophy/] (I am more inclined while writing these words of [[nobrow philosophy]], of which Zizek and Sloterdijk are the greatest contemporary examples in this category) is that Zizek returns to this joke for closing his arguments. In the same vein in the same speech he has the embodied metaphor of "cutting of the balls of capitalism" and how to proceed for capitalism's castration. Brilliant. | + | |
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| - | [[Victor Kravchenko]] i chose freedom | + | |
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| - | [[Rape joke]], [[testicles]] | + | |
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| - | [[Alex Callinicos]] | + | |
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| - | [[José Mojica Marins]] | + | |
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| - | "[[Irma Vep]]" (1996) an [[experimental animation]] by [[Olivier Assayas]] | + | |
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| - | [[Lewis Hine]] [[Power house mechanic working on steam pump]] | + | |
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| - | ''[[Weeds (TV series)]]'' | + | |
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