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Mass protests break out around Europe and see how Facebook censors them — reported by our colleague from Vienna

One of the principal arguments of the imposition of the democracy versus autocracy dichotomy is that while democracies do ensure freedom of speech, share of information and so on, autocracies fail to do that.

Now let’s see how the infamous pioneer of globalist totalitarianism, one of the most popular social networking of this so called “world of democracies”, that Facebook of Zuckerberg censors a video about the outburst of mass rallies protesting the sanctions against Russia. Continue reading “Mass protests break out around Europe and see how Facebook censors them — reported by our colleague from Vienna”

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Enjoying what we don’t have* – Engin Kurtay

(*) The title is barrowed from the book of Todd McGowan, “Enjoying what we don’t have – The political project of psychoanalysis“, University of Nebraska Press, 2013.

(Sendika.org’da Türkçe’sini okumak için tıkla)

How does the symbolization of a lack turns into fun? To understand this mechanism, I will proceed under the guidance of the articles of Professor Slavoj Zizek’s “Ego Ideal and the Superego, Lacan as a Viewer of Casablanca” and Owen Hewitson’s “What Does Lacan Say About … Jouissance?”

The ideal ego is the way the subject (small other) desires to be perceived by Other, thus, it is ‘imaginary’. Ego Ideal, by contrast, is the subject’s self-positionning into societal rules, thus, it’s “symbolic”. The superego is distinguished from Ego Ideal as its back-face, evil twin: it judges, “stigmatizes” the subject by its inadequacy to conform law. It mocks, have fun with it. Here reveals the paradoxical formula that connects ‘jouissance’ to ‘obscene’: The more Subject tends to comply, the more it becomes subject to get judged and stigmatized – and this duality of opposite agencies (Ego Ideal versus the superego) become eventually trapped into a swirl of self-perpetuating ‘obscene jouissance’. Continue reading “Enjoying what we don’t have* – Engin Kurtay”

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Karşıtına dönüşen feminizm ve Zizek’in uyarısı

İyi, kötü ve çirkin (Kollontai, Goldberg ve Steinem)

Geçenlerde Sendika.org’da yayımlanan Profesör Zizek’in Modern dünyada cinsellik: “Evet, evet, evet” aslında “hayır” anlamına gelebilir mi?” başlıklı makalesi, feminizmin çıkmazları üzerine etraflıca düşünmek için sağlam bir çatı oluşturuyor. Yazının sonunda ele alınan Lewinsky’nin beyanları #metoo hareketinin ana temasını örnekliyor. Ana tema şöyle : sahnede hep “güçlü” bir erkek var… bu ünlü bir işadamı, sanatçı, aktör, TV yorumcusu, yani kariyerli ve varlıklı bir erkek olabiliyor… ve kampanya tipik olarak erkeğin bu gücünü kadınlar üzerinde seks için kullanmasını yargılıyor.

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