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359 Teaser - Joker's Mask with Slavoj Žižek

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🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

so um yes as you probably already discern we're talking to uh slava giecek and it looks to begin by

0:06.1

saying one of the things that i uh most admired you for was uh back when you were

0:10.1

teaching here in new york city at the new school you famously said uh i don't want to read papers

0:15.1

don't give me anything i hate students because like the majority of people they are boring idiots

0:20.0

and i cannot imagine a worse experience than some idiot comes and starts to ask you questions

0:24.4

so keeping that in mind have you seen the new joker movie and if so your thoughts i

0:31.0

now now i will fall even deep into criminal activity i haven't because i have a nautical principle

0:38.8

my country is as your beloved president would have put it a sheet call over country

0:44.0

small country which means you can freely download pirate copies nobody controls it we are not

0:50.4

of interest to be companies and so i'm waiting for a good copy to be freely available to download

0:58.8

and here here i don't want to download this here so i haven't yet seen it but i read about it

1:04.2

and this doesn't present me from having an opinion on the notion because because you know that

1:10.4

about it's about fifty-fifty half of the movies i write about i haven't seen them no i'm here a

1:19.4

girlian idealist i read about the movie an idea came for me then i'm afraid to see the movie

1:25.4

it may spoil my idea you see that it's a little bit for example the one black painter yeah i brought

1:32.1

about it i didn't see it roma quaron pretenses i didn't so but from what i've heard i would be

1:42.3

totally basically i'm not saying i know the main actor is good blah blah blah but

1:48.4

you know why i opposed it because if i'm informed correctly the movie tries to give some kind of

1:56.9

social psychological genesis of joker desperate circumstances blah blah all that stuff i think

2:05.1

with these negative superheroes this is precisely the wrong approach you cannot account for them

2:13.1

in this way they are kind of a miracle they are of course effect of certain causes but the

2:18.3

contingent effect the majority of people don't become jokers you know even they suffer in the same way

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