Japanese workers and unused holiday rights

As told 3

“They have the right guaranteed to days of holiday every year. However, they are expected not to use this right in its full extent.”
~0:00 Politics Between Fear and Terror2006-11-15 · 2:01:13

“Why this type of exchange?...that's the mystery of rules.”
50:37 Fear Thy Neighbor as Thyself2007-11-26 · 1:55:58

“workers have the right to days holiday every year. However, you are expected to use maximum half of this amount.”
44:03 Year of Distraction1:16:41

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

empty gesture ×2 unknown knowns ×1 habits ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Julius Rosenberg2 Paul Robeson2 Ágota Kristóf2 Ariel Sharon1 Jeffrey Mehlman1 Irena Grudzińska-Gross1 Ralf Dahrendorf1 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak2

alongside works

The Conflict of Faculties2 The Shining (novel)2 The Notebook / The Proof / The Third Lie1 Für Elise1 The Clash of Civilizations1 In Search of Lost Time2 Romance2 The Notebook1

Told together with

50% Tito dies happy / Yugoslav debt accumulation 2 shared talks 50% Stephen King's The Shining as neighbor 2 shared talks 50% South African Truth and Reconciliation Committee vs. Nazi Germany 2 shared talks 38% Hitchcock's Vertigo, the missing underwear 3 shared talks 33% Proust's grandmother on the telephone 2 shared talks 29% Judith Butler: 'be one species among many', Žižek's respectful refusal 2 shared talks 23% Martin Luther King and Tolerance 3 shared talks 21% Rumsfeld's known/unknown matrix and the fourth term 3 shared talks 20% Yugoslav army and homosexual innuendo 2 shared talks 18% Father Joseph / Père Joseph, Gray Eminence 2 shared talks 13% Stalinist prohibition of the prohibition 2 shared talks 11% Daisetz Suzuki's Knife 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

~0:00 Politics Between Fear and Terror2006-11-15 · 2:01:13

Japanese workers are guaranteed a certain number of holiday days per year but are expected by implicit rule not to use them fully. Žižek uses this to illustrate the logic of permitted freedom you must not use., illustrating implicit rules and social norms,unknown knowns

50:37 Fear Thy Neighbor as Thyself2007-11-26 · 1:55:58

Workers formally have 30 days' holiday but are expected to use only 15. Žižek asked why not just write 15, was told he didn't understand. The empty form of 30 days is what makes the actual 15 meaningful as symbolic exchange., illustrating empty gestures,habits,symbolic exchange

44:03 Year of Distraction1:16:41

Japanese workers legally have X holiday days but are expected to use only half, Žižek uses this to illustrate that explicit rules only function through implicit meta-rules about how not to use them., illustrating empty gesture,habits as dialectical category,the big Other