Chapter 8 of Zizek’s The Year of Dreaming Dangerously deals with the HBO series The Wire and how the show succeeds in depicting how impersonal forces work to keep individuals from changing things but ultimately fails to envision an alternative. Zizek uses his analysis of the show to argue that in order to make radical change, it is necessary to accept the system as it really is.
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Dear author,
I had the utmost pleasure of stumbling across your YouTube profile and was taken back by the brilliant content, clever presentation, but especially your tendency to cover thinkers one might describe as diametrically opposted to each other. Clearly you’ve no problem taking different points of view and rethinking your own narratives. Your unpretentious yet still academic analysis is refreshing. I just think your content is fantastic and wanted to thank you for all the hard work you put in. People out there like me are reading/watching and enjoying it! Have a nice evening, greetings from Germany
Jon
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Thanks–this comes from having basically gone through both ideological poles and come out the other side, just seeking for insight and meaning. I’m glad you like this. Sometimes I’m a little late on posting my videos here, but I’m trying to do better! I do one once a week.
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Interesting content, If you’d please contact me as I have a Utopian Idea, where The Far Right and The Far Left are in equilibrium and communism and capitalism are also equal, in a state of anarchy and freedom with ArchiacFuturism components, Architecture based on Arcology and the social Class Aristocratic Elite that instead of ruling they invest themselves in studying and producing content. Contact me on my e-mail Giosue.agiuss76@gmail.com if you are interested in this new type of political science and want to add it in part of your videos. The idea will soon be published in a book called “Anarchatopia, Commoner Manifesto for Anarchy and Utopia”
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Hey, I’m glad you like my content. When the book comes out, contact me again–I would like to read it and see what I think!
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