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Slavoj Žižek on the Charlie Hebdo massacre: Are the worst really full of passionate intensity?

How fragile the belief of an Islamist must be if he feels threatened by a stupid caricature in a weekly satirical newspaper, says the Slovenian philosopher...

http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2015/01/slavoj-i-ek-charlie-hebdo-massacre-are-worst-really-full-passionate-intensity

#Slavoj Žižek #zizek #charlie hebdo #liberal democracy #fundementalism

What do you see when you look in the mirror?

In the 2013 film Enemy, Adam Bell (Jake Gyllenhaal), a disheveled and jaded history teacher, discovers something at first exciting but then disturbing: he has a perfect double. The chance viewing of his apparent doppelganger in a movie compels him to confront his crippling dissatisfaction and even his sense of existence itself, with horrifying consequences.

Enemy is multi-layered and unconventional. It demands repeat viewings to take in all the metaphorical and symbolic pieces the director (Denis Villeneuve) has arranged. All the pieces are there, he claims, that point to his intended message. But like the lesson of the great post-structuralists of the 20th Century, such as Derrida and Delueze, the semantic intent of the author is but one of many multiple and valid interpretations of the text. The success of Enemy is in it's interpretive wealth - How do you read it?

#Enemy (film)#Enemy #film #Jake Gyllenhaal #canada #cinema #review #psychological #thriller

“You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before .." "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.” ― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?