Žižek And So On Disavowal w/ Alenka Zupančič PART ONE
Jun 24, 2024
This podcast features Alenka Zupančič, author of 'Disavowal' with Polity Press. Topics include serial crisis, the Fire Within the Fire, knowledge, belief, deception, and the indispensability of concrete analysis.
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Antigone's Timeless Decision
- Antigone's figure is reactivated differently in contexts due to a blind spot or antagonism it articulates.
- She embodies the courage to decide what the truth of a situation is, impacting community values.
Disavowal Neutralizes Knowledge
- Disavowal means knowing a traumatic truth but acting as if you don't, neutralizing its consequences.
- Declaring this knowledge protects the status quo, making the knowledge perform a social fetishistic function.
Conspiracy: Deception and Anxiety
- Conspiracy theories focus on deception, not facts, reflecting distrust of authority.
- This raises an existential anxiety about the ontological certainty of being when everything may be deception.