Abandoned planes in the Mojave Desert

As told 3

“maybe without this properly artistic moment of authentic passivity, nothing new can emerge.”
59:53 The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) - Slavoj Žižek2012 · 2:07:58

“We experience history not when things move, but only when we see this rest, waste of culture being half retaken by nature.”
~53:42 The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012)2012 · 2:10:30

“In these ever-growing piles of inert dysfunctional stuff... one can as it were perceive the capitalist drive at rest.”
54:29 Slavoj Žižek, "'Unbehagen in der Natur': On Thinking the End of Nature"2022-11-02 · 2:25:59

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

inertia of the real ×2 authentic passivity ×1 Capitalist hyperactivity generates apathy ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Lindsay Anderson2 Nikos Kazantzakis2 Miloš Forman2 Bob Fosse2 John Frankenheimer2 Michelangelo Antonioni2 Abimael Guzmán2 Stephen Sondheim1

alongside works

Zabriskie Point2 M*A*S*H2 If...2 A Clockwork Orange2 Capital, Volume 12 West Side Story2 Taxi Driver2 Full Metal Jacket2

Told together with

50% The Last Temptation of Christ 2 shared talks 50% Full Metal Jacket, the drill sergeant and Private Pyle 2 shared talks 50% Brief Encounter, the busybody as the big Other 2 shared talks 40% Prague Spring saved by Soviet intervention 2 shared talks 40% The Fall of Berlin, Stalin as divine matchmaker 2 shared talks 40% Bosnian rape survivors and the absent big Other 2 shared talks 40% Abu Ghraib as obscene underside of military culture 2 shared talks 29% Rammstein and neo-Nazis 2 shared talks 22% Kinder Surprise Egg 2 shared talks 20% Jaws shark as ideological condensation 2 shared talks 10% Starbucks ethical consumerism 3 shared talks

Every retelling 3

59:53 The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) - Slavoj Žižek2012 · 2:07:58

Planes rusting in the Mojave represent waste, the invisible other side of capitalist dynamics. Walter Benjamin's idea that we experience history not when things move but when we confront ruin is applied here: authentic passivity before waste is a precondition for something new., illustrating inertia of the real,capitalism and crisis

~53:42 The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012)2012 · 2:10:30

The sight of abandoned aircraft, capitalism's waste, provides an authentic encounter with the inertia of the real, recalling Walter Benjamin's claim that we experience history only when confronting the rest and waste of culture being reclaimed by nature., illustrating inertia of the real,waste as capitalism's underside,authentic passivity

54:29 Slavoj Žižek, "'Unbehagen in der Natur': On Thinking the End of Nature"2022-11-02 · 2:25:59

Points to piles of useless, inert objects (cars, computers) as the 'obverse' of capitalist production, representing the capitalist drive at rest., illustrating Capitalist hyperactivity generates apathy