Lachlan Brown on Tue, 11 Mar 2003 07:56:10 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> Zizek 10th, Thing 11th March NYC - more notice Please! |
Please could we have more notice of events as people near to NYC - as I am in Toronto - might really like to attend this talk by Zizek and also the benefit for the Thing the following day. I would hope that Zizek recognises that the love of Jesus for Judas is speculative and that the greater love lay between Jean Batiste and the whoremonger, boozer and agitator Christ. There is no reason to suppose that our arbitrary Millennium (which does seem to have the character of the real thing as few seem equipped intellectually to cope with the range of emotive issues it has raised) must follow the template of the Christian story but perhaps deviate from it slightly: as in Sean Batiste recognising Christ but then claiming to be him - a much more interesting betrayal. A much more intriguing Trial, Flagellation, and Crucifixion of the false Christ and plenty of time to set up the world of life and learning to replace the world of ignorance and abuse of arbitrary power that was proposed. Just a thought. Betrayal occurs as a necesary antagonism prior to the event of the revolution (which of course in our time never comes but is greatly desired) so that it does not occur during the long ascent to climax. It is a part of the process of _breaking down and making up_ that is so essential to the development of culture. We might understand contemporary events as an early stage in this process and there does seem to be quite a shift in the way we imagine a world we might all live in, rather than imagine a world mourning our loss, or the loss of whatever it was that Sean Cubitt meant by his 'juvenilia' a litte over a year ago. Just some thoughts as I'd really love to come to NYC to hear Zizek one night and meet the Thing people at the Thing benefit. Lachlan This from the Sarai Reader list. "Perhaps, there is no greater love than that of a revolutionary couple," writes Zizek, "where each of the two lovers is ready to abandon the other at any moment if revolution demands it. It is along these lines that one should look for the non-perverse reading of Christ’s sacrifice, of his message to Judas: ‘Prove to me that I am everything to you, SO BETRAY ME on behalf of the revolutionary mission of both of us!’" Zizek, the ever prolific writer, will expound on this theme and, as always, apply his dazzling thinking to current events and any number of other issues in a question-and-answer session after the lecture. Josefina Ayerza, the editor and publisher of Lacanian Ink, will read an introductory paper. Slavoj Zizek, the world-renowned philosopher and cultural theorist, will be holding his regular, biannual town meeting in New York City on March 10th at Deitch Projects (18 Wooster Street) in conjunction with the publication of Lacanian Ink 21. The subject of his lecture this time is "Love without Mercy." Event: SLAVOJ ZIZEK lecture: "LOVE WITHOUT MERCY" Date: MONDAY, MARCH 10th, 2003, 7:00pm (Free admission) Place: DEITCH PROJECTS 18 WOOSTER STREET (between Canal & Grand), NEW YORK, NY 10013 Lachlan Brown T+VM: +1 416 666 1452 eFax: +1 435 603 2156 -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net