Matrix

by Slavoj Žižek

Matrix'i Slovenya'da bir sinemada seyrederken, filmin ideal seyircisinin -yani bir budalanın- yanında oturmak gibi bir daha ele geçmez bir fırsata sahip oldum. Sağımda oturan, yirmili yaşlarının sonunda bir adam filme kendini kaptırmış, "Aman Tanrım, vay be, demek ki gerçeklik merçeklik yok! …" gibi yüksek sesli nidalarla seyircileri habire rahatsız ediyordu. O kılı kırk yaran felsefi ya da psikanalitik kavramsal ayrımları filmle bağdaştıran sözde-sofistike entelektüel okumalardansa böylesi naif kaptırmaları hiç düşünmeden tercih ederim.

Genres: Philosophy

102 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovene sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic.

He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia). He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party Liberal Democracy of Slovenia for Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia (an auxiliary institution, abolished in 1992).

Since 2005, Žižek has been a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Žižek is well known for his use of the works of 20th century French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. He writes on many topics including the Iraq War, fundamentalism, capitalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock.

In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País he jokingly described himself as an "orthodox Lacanian Stalinist". In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! he described himself as a "Marxist" and a "Communist."

Reviews

[Gökçe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Agir bir dil, fazlaca ek bilgi gerektiriyor ama ufkumu genisletti.

[Mauro]

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