Surplus-Enjoyment
by Slavoj Žižek · first published 2022
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"Slavoj Žižek takes on the Hegelian notion of "verkehrte Welt" (the world turned upside down) and considers it the perfect concept for our current predicament. An example of this kind of topsy-turvydom is when you have precise, carefully laid plans and it implodes at the last minute leaving everyone running around in chaos. It encapsulates the basic reversal in a Hegelian dialectical process in which even the best-laid plans turn into their opposite -- a dream of freedom into terror, morality into hypocrisy, excessive wealth into poverty for the majority. And is the Covid epidemic not the late
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…Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - Julian Jaynes; And: Phenomenology of the End - Franco Berardi; The True Believer - Eric Hoffer; I See Satan Fall Like Lightning - Rene Girard; Surplus Enjoyment - Slavoy Zizek; Dionysus, Christ, and the Death of God - Giuseppe Fornari Phenomenology of the End in particular blew my mind.
on “Ask HN: Which non-fiction books had the biggest impact on you?” ↗…paragraphs, how do you position yourself in relation to Obsidian and Roam? I don't use or see the utility of tools like this personally; they are in my mind a great example of Žižek's take on Lacanian "surplus enjoyment". I imagine some people will nevertheless want to take things they save to Notado and export them to Obsidian, Roam, Notion etc., and I have built out incremental export APIs for people who have this…
on “Pinboard vs. Raindrop” ↗