Haven't watched all of this yet (link in 3rd post), but I am keenly interested. #SlavojZizek says: "Trump is...a symptom, a reaction to the failure of the mainstream welfare state liberal democratic [capitalism]."
I'm not entirely sure of that final word, because the interviewer interrupted him. 
But even without that final word, I think Žižek nails it.
Donald J. Trump as president --not once, but twice (at least)--is exactly the insane fascist autocratic bullshit you get...
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"La obscenidad trumpiana no permanecerá para siempre: hace falta un payaso (Trump, Musk) para establecer un nuevo régimen feudal, y en cuanto este régimen empiece a funcionar plenamente por sí solo, los robots fríos (Vance, Thiel) podrían hacerse abiertamente con el poder." Slavoj Žižek.
https://www.publico.es/opinion/columnas/recemos-trump-viva-anos.html
Hochspannendes geostrategisches Interview mit #SlavojŽižek: „Europa muss eine neue Supermacht werden“
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/slavoj-zizek-interview-trump-putin-li.3216692 (SZ+)
@Nachtflug Siehe #SlavojŽižek|s brillante Analogiebildung mit Hilfe von »They Live«.
Aus einem Alptraum zu erwachen, ist schon schwer genug, wenn seine AngstLähmungsMacht groß ist.
Aus einem Wunschtraum zu erwachen, auch wenn er längst zu einem Alp wurde, ist noch schwieriger, weil mit zur Angstlähmung die Schamstarre gesellt.
"Está claro que Estados Unidos ya no concede a #Europa un trato de aliado principal, de modo que una de las opciones que debe considerarse es la de establecer con China una alianza estratégica contra el nuevo eje formado por Estados Unidos, Rusia e India", dice #SlavojŽižek en https://www.publico.es/opinion/columnas/europeos-destino-sonrie.html
Parece razonable, hacer una política internacional pragmática buscando acuerdos constructivos. Por ejemplo, si EEUU y Rusia pasan de la ONU y dejan espacios vacíos en ella, hagamos acuerdos con #China, Brasil, Sudáfrica, Indonesia, etc, para llenar esos huecos favoreciendo que la ONU sea un contrapeso multilateral (más o menos grande) al multipolarismo en auge.
"Los dos procesos de paz en los que está ahora inmerso el Gobierno de Trump –Gaza y Ucrania– constituyen ejemplos de cómo va a funcionar el mundo de los BRICS que ahora está emergiendo: sí, será multipolar, pero con dos países fuertes."
#SlavojŽižek, #Trumpismo, #Palestina, #Ucrania
https://www.publico.es/opinion/columnas/europeos-destino-sonrie.html
Check this all-star conversation at #EGS on #AlenkaZupancic "Disavowal", out in my @politybooks series. It features #MladenDolar, #SlavojZizek, #FrankRuda, moderation by #ChristopherFysk.
Next up at #BerggruenInstituteEurope in #CasadeiTreOci: #SlavojZizek on a quantum theory of history.
@guenterhack Harte Liebe für #SlavojŽižek|s philosophische Reflektion deutsch-französisch-englischer Kloschüsseln.
Iss bekannt?
https://youtu.be/rzXPyCY7jbs
Neo-racism can easily distinguish between east and west again. As is so often the case, one's own side is the better one, which is easy and nice because you only get information from your own side. Masturbation is nice and healthy, but in the long run you come across as a bit quirky. #racism #east #west #slavojzizek #philosophy
I'm writing an essay on this #SlavojZizek talk:
http://zizekpodcast.com/2017/01/07/ziz141-racial-enjoyments-11-2016/
Essay excerpt:
" #DonaldTrump, Žižek rightly points out, is the perfect example of the eternal adolescent: vacuous, irresponsible, childish, incapable of critical thought, arrogant, flouting basic rules of decency, careless, cruel, prone to irrational outbursts and decisions, inconsiderate, vicious when thwarted, and petulant. He’s a vulgar opportunist who presents himself as a successful businessman—
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For #SlavojZizek, Israel's war on #Gaza contains "all the defining antagonisms of the modern era"; #Palestine is "a stand-in for all European sins and a font of anti-Semitism."
Watch bernjob make a fool out of himself. 
"THE TALK: Conversations that never took place between people who never met."
The Talk: #BernieSanders & #SlavojŽižek
“They tell us we are dreamers. The true dreamers are those who think things can go on indefinitely the way they are. We are not dreamers. We are the awakening from a dream that is turning into a nightmare. We are not destroying anything. We are only witnessing how the system is destroying itself.”
#SlavojZizek, Occupy Wall Street
https://2011.fcforum.net/en/outcomes11/
As occupations and other forms of direct democratic participation return to public attention in the US, this is worth remembering.
"What is ideology but the form of dreaming in which we live"
-- Mark Fisher
(Possibly paraphrasing Slavoj Žižek.)
ok, so I fell into a rabbit hole after I discovered Slavoj Zizek once provided copy for an Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue, and it turns out that it is brilliant
ŽIŽEK vs. ŽXŽW: My god, what is this polycrisis?
Recorded live at SXSW, full video now on youtube:
https://youtu.be/yq838u_uMrU
Freedom A Disease Without Cure
by Slavoj Žižek
In this new philosophical exploration, Slavoj Žižek argues that the experience of true, radical freedom is transient and fragile. Countering the idea of libertarian individualism, Žižek draws on philosophers Hegel, Kierkegaard and Heidegger, as well as the work of Kandinsky and Agatha Christie to examine the many facets of freedom and what we can learn from each of them.
