Doomsday

A Lecture by Slavoj Zizek. “Anti-Semitism, Anti-Semite and Jew” European Graduate School, 2009 I was thinking about posting this before I read McAlister’s piece.  But now, having read it, I see even more connections to what we’ve been discussing.  The lecture is long, so I’ve only posted the end parts where Zizek summarizes his argument.

I came across this yesterday and thought it fit right in with the discussion we had at the end of class, particularly in reference to skepticism as it seeks to break from dualism. Lynne Layton writes: John Powers says of Lynch’s [Blue Velvet]  “Such a dichotomy is typical…it would be wrong to criticize Blue Velvet […]

Angels in America challenges dogma and relativism by creating its own moral universe. But this new universe is at odds with variety of other universes, for example, the Mormon universe, which considers homosexuality an affront to G-d. If you create a moral universe you’re bound to step on someone’s toes. The skeptic steps on everyone’s […]