BP oil spill and Obama's response

As told 3

“all this rhetorics 'I will kick British Petroleum in the ass and they will I will make them pay.' Sorry but when we are talking about such a catastrophe, it reaches beyond this logic.”
~9:24 Are Catastrophes Virtual?2010-10-13 · 1:41:41

“He changed it into a typical legal private immoral culprits problem. As if I will kick the BP in the ass and I will make them pay.”
30:49 Communism in the 21st Century2010-07 · 1:33:26

“This is the liberal way: you find a culprit. Sorry but with such a great catastrophe, the first thing to say is it's ridiculous even to talk about how somebody will recover the costs.”
54:06 To Begin from The Beginning2010-06-26 · 1:48:31

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

communism as the name of a problem ×1 ethical anti-capitalism ×1 the commons ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Lawrence Eagleburger1 John Holloway1 Donald Tusk1 Lech Kaczyński1 Gáspár Miklós Tamás1 Alex Callinicos1 Julien Offray de La Mettrie1 Norman Finkelstein1

alongside works

Die Illusionen der anderen1 Crack Capitalism1 Commonwealth1 Change the World Without Taking Power1 Bonfire of Illusions1 Precarious Life1 L'Animal que donc je suis (The Animal That Therefore I Am)1 Worstward Ho1

Told together with

11% Bill Gates as rent-extractor from general intellect 2 shared talks 4% Niels Bohr's horseshoe 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

~9:24 Are Catastrophes Virtual?2010-10-13 · 1:41:41

Obama's reaction to the Gulf oil spill, insisting BP pay, is ridiculed as legalistic thinking: the real task is not compensation but changing the structural conditions (capitalism) that make such damage inevitable., illustrating ethical anti-capitalism's limits,legalistic frame,Marx's critique of political freedom

30:49 Communism in the 21st Century2010-07 · 1:33:26

Žižek argues that Obama's response to the BP oil spill, treating it as a legal-private moral-culpability issue and threatening to 'kick BP in the ass', reveals how even radical ecological crises are absorbed into the legal-state form rather than triggering communist-style mass mobilisation., illustrating communist approach,ecology and communism,legal state form

54:06 To Begin from The Beginning2010-06-26 · 1:48:31

Žižek criticizes Obama's response to the Deepwater Horizon spill as the classic liberal move of finding an individual culprit ('I'll kick BP's ass') instead of addressing the systemic logic that made the disaster inevitable., illustrating systemic logic vs. individual culprit,the limits of state regulation,commons of external nature