Language: Castilian Date Published: 2008
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We said okay yesterday that transcripts of conferences not convinced. I think I'll have to retract. It is clear that every good lecturer dominates some live rhetorical tricks used to get the audience in his pocket and transcripts are deflated beyond repair. In addition, a presentation is subject to circumstances at the time (or space) and supports arguments usually less detailed and a lengthy trial. Nevertheless-or perhaps because of it-a transcribed conference has a great advantage over a text designed from the outset as such: the freshness. An author will dare to say things to think well before writing. Whoever commits transcribed and published, in this sense, a betrayal, but a betrayal that offers juicy surprises. In this case
responsible for the betrayal is commendable Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, which for several years edited a collection of booklets with the assistance of the very authoritative voices that go there. Those who do not live in Madrid we can only thank you for the idea. The book I speak of comes from a visit by Slavoj Zizek (actually not written well, but who knows how to put on a circumflex invested zetas cast the first stone). For those who do not sound, this guy is probably the most controversial philosopher on the face of the planet. His interventions abound on youtube, who are not bored. To cite two to remember: a disquisition on the differences between German and French toilets, and the final demonstration that Sound of Music is a pro-Nazi propaganda film.
That said, you can assume it's worth reading what Zizek is good to say about several films, including Titanic , Birds, The Da Vinci Code or perfume. In these and other specimens exercises his razor-sharp analytical skills, debt to Marx and Lacan, lifting the masks of the most renowned of contemporary capitalism ideological products. His comments are illustrated with stills from the films, which is very useful for getting lost. Also useful to have some knowledge of philosophy and psychoanalysis, we will not deny.
the book is completed with two interventions, Jorge and Cesar German Renduelles, which abound in the same subjects. The first, frankly, left me cold. Will not understand enough to appreciate Lacan its possible contribution to a further renewal of the political left. As for the second Renduelles demonstrates with admirable precision how much of the current film partakes of a violent dream of redemption that will save us all runaway consumption cycle that engulfs us. The Fight Club, for example. Funny thing, he says (and I agree) is that these dreams serve to reinforce, at the deepest level, the logic that seeks to criticize, forgetting "that the material consumption is an epiphenomenon of a monstrous social spiritual."
is, in short, a book that will change your life, but they will store for a few strokes of genius and a few flashes of insight about daily appearances around us. And that is something, right?
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