Beria's entry replaced by Bering Strait in Soviet Encyclopedia

As told 3

“instead of Beria, they put Bering Strait... when you did this, the continuity was perfect. Now what is so mysterious here? It is: whom they were trying to deceive?”
~0:00 How are we embedded in Ideology?2007-11-16 · 1:15:40

“They put Bering, Bering Pass... the continuity was perfect, seamless. Whom were they trying to deceive? Of course not the people.”
39:10 Politics Between Fear and Terror2006-11-15 · 2:01:13

“it is as if there is what in lacian theory we call the big other, some anonymous agency, the chicken, whose innocence had to be protected”
40:07 Maybe We Just Need a New Chicken2008-11-09 · 1:42:23

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

the big Other ×4 divine obscenity ×1 the chicken ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Ariel Sharon1 Gustáv Husák1 Samuel Huntington3 Paul Greengrass1 Michelangelo1 Kurt Vonnegut1 George Lucas1 John Robert Nicholson1

alongside works

Für Elise1 The Clash of Civilizations1 On Totalitarianism1 Star Wars: The Phantom Menace1 Button1 World Trade Center1 Pollock1 Minima Moralia1

Told together with

22% Hitchcock's Vertigo, the missing underwear 2 shared talks 18% Apologizing to Judith Butler 2 shared talks 14% Martin Luther King and Tolerance 2 shared talks 13% Rumsfeld's known/unknown matrix and the fourth term 2 shared talks 11% Book of Job as first critique of ideology 2 shared talks 4% Niels Bohr's horseshoe 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

~0:00 How are we embedded in Ideology?2007-11-16 · 1:15:40

After Beria's arrest, Soviet encyclopedia subscribers were mailed a new page to paste over his entry, replacing him with the Bering Strait, with photos, so the continuity was perfect. Žižek asks: whom were they deceiving? No one, it was pure Big Other maintenance., illustrating the Big Other,Stalinism and appearances,social obscenity

39:10 Politics Between Fear and Terror2006-11-15 · 2:01:13

After Beria was shot and became a non-person, Soviet encyclopedia subscribers were told to cut out his entry and glue in a new page about the Bering Strait. Whom were they deceiving? Nobody, proving the big Other as the enigmatic addressee of Stalinist ritual., illustrating the big Other,unknown knowns,Stalinism

40:07 Maybe We Just Need a New Chicken2008-11-09 · 1:42:23

When Beria was shot as a traitor, subscribers to the Soviet encyclopedia received instructions to cut out his two-page entry and replace it with a new page about the Bering Strait. The question 'who was duped?' reveals the big Other: the anonymous agency for whom the historical continuity had to be maintained., illustrating the big Other,ideology,Stalinism