[lbo-talk] Zizek speech to OWS

Gar Lipow gar.lipow at gmail.com
Mon Oct 10 10:36:22 PDT 2011


Any one who wants to see a video,Democracy Now included excerpts from his OWS speech today (Monday Oct 10 2011 in case you are reading this post belatedly). Also, on the extremely light side: one of the OWS signs show in today's Democracy Now read "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal." Give yourself three geek points if you recognize that without needing to Google.

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:15 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> like Gulick, parts I didn't like. That part about how to counter being
> called unamerican was just plain weird. I can see he was trying to
> give people a way to defend themselves against the charge, without
> sounding stupidly patriotic. But he couldn't bring himself to go
> there, so he gave them a way to sound extremely religious.
>
> The nonviolent violence and ghandi stuff.... kinda fell flat for me.
>
> But really, if he had simply said that last paragraph, the joke about
> ink, that's all he had to have said.
>
> Also, it's important that he put himself in with them, as part of the
> us and the we.
>
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>> As the official Zizek hater on this list, I have to say that’s an
>> impressive speech. I wish he would cater more to rational individuals
>> in the manner of this talk rather than coffee house and keyboard
>> warrior intellectuals. :-) <— not you kids of course, you are the
>> best, I love you, don’t flame me.
>>
>>       —ravi
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