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Pill Pod 113 - Slavoj Zizek vs Wokeness

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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The Big Other in Telluride

The author of this article says, when he's talking about the Telluride situation, he says that he's not a person. Now, that makes absolutely no sense because the admin cannot be the big other. And I think I agree with you on this, actually, if I know where you're going with it. So let me present my case at least because the big other does not exist. It's kind of the thing that everybody knows about Lacan and Lacanian theory. It's a signifier that can't signify anything. But it holds a place in the subject. This lack in the other gives the subject, so to speak, a breathing space. The other is not

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