re:constructions - Welcome to the Desert of the Real - 0 views
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It is when we watched on TV screen the two WTC towers collapsing, that it became possible to experience the falsity of the "reality TV shows": even if this shows are "for real," people still act in them - they simply play themselves. The standard disclaimer in a novel ("characters in this text are a fiction, every resemblance with the real life characters is purely contingent") holds also for the participants of the reality soaps: what we see there are fictional characters, even if they play themselves for the real.
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Peter Kittle on 23 Feb 11Zizek seems to be arguing for a position from which specific events make manifest the constructedness of subjectivity--a kind of Althusserian "crack" in ideology, perhaps.
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Piece by Zizek in the days following 9/11/01 that shows amazing prescience--but relates in interesting ways to the need for a philosophy to be in place so that "bad" (for lack of a better term) decisions can be avoided.
