Thursday, February 18, 2010
Actually existing liberalism
One of the best Zizek lectures I've ever heard, from a little while ago (November of last year). I myself would get behind a lot of what is said--including the comment on Latour. The look at the contradictions in the notion of individual choice is precise. But also featured are levelheaded remarks on the artificial (biological life), the posthuman and augmented reality, Freud (materialist) and Jung, thought and modernity, and really or actually existing liberalism.
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Sorry to be a bit lazy here, but what exactly is meant by the posthuman? I am not a fan of listening to lectures off the computer, so I am really trying to figure out how necessary this lecture is for my work.
Posthuman means techno-enhanced humanity, primarily, though I'm sure you've run up against some parallels with this in your animal work. The extent to which a technical body and an animal body can be thought together, I mean (as in Descartes, where animals are machines).
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