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+The affirmative transforms ecological protection into an ideology that serves as the ultimate agency of control and functions as the new opium for the masses. Trying to give meaning to ecological crisis is our way of transforming nature into the object of our desire and thus establishes a framework of fantasy. By mystifying the very nature of the ecological problem we paralyze action which turns case. |
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+Zizek 09, Slavoj (High theory ninja) June 01, 2009 "Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers" The New Press http://phiorg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Zizek-on-ecology.pdf SHSAM |
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+The same thing goes for ecology. Of course ecology is the question today, |
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+-balance, of self-reproduction, to which we should return. |
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+They will say that their impacts are grounded in fact and reality, but mystification scapegoats ecology as the primary issue concealing and twisting the real problems underneath. |
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+Zizek 09, Slavoj (High theory ninja) June 01, 2009 "Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers" The New Press http://phiorg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Zizek-on-ecology.pdf SHSAM |
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+ZIZEK: Yes, it may appear that ecology has nothing to do with ideology |
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+as innocent as it appears, that it is always contaminated by ideology. |
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+The alternative is to aestheticize trash. Nature is seen as a perfect being polluted by human actions, and in order to subvert this, we must embrace the flip side of the coin: the trash that we ignore and seek to dispose of. |
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+Zizek 09, Slavoj (High theory ninja) June 01, 2009 "Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers" The New Press http://phiorg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Zizek-on-ecology.pdf SHSAM |
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+ZIZEK: When we are standing where I am standing now, with a lot |
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+of emotional attachment to, or to find meaning in, useless objects. |
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+The alternative is key to re-inscribing meaning to life on this planet riddled with imperfections. We must stop blaming humans for tainting nature and instead embrace that nature is screwed up. |
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+Zizek 09, Slavoj (High theory ninja) June 01, 2009 "Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers" The New Press http://phiorg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Zizek-on-ecology.pdf SHSAM |
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+Since we are here in London, this is why one of my favorite British |
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+to drop this heavily ideolog-ically mythological, invested notion of nature. |