Machines having sex / stamina training unit

As told 6

“We already did our duty to sex. Machines are doing it for us.”
57:10 Radical Politics Today: Hegel’s Teaching2015-07-25 · 1:48:48

“the machines are buzzing, okay they are enjoying for us and I can then sit with her and have a nice cup of tea”
1:09:36 The Freedom of a Forced Choice2014-11-22 · 1:24:08

“Where are we here? What are we approaching?”
1:04:27 At Nuit Blache2012-09-29 · 2:06:58

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

desexualization of reality ×1 superego ×1 masturbation with a real partner ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Franco Zeffirelli2 Roman Polanski2 Michele Bachmann1 John Boorman1 Richard Branson1 Fernando Pessoa1 Tom Hanks1 Olga Kurylenko1

alongside works

Economy and the Future2 The Passion of the Christ2 The Experiments with Truth (An Autobiography)1 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich1 Anti-Sexus1 The Zero Marginal Cost Society1 Flash Boys1 Figures of Negativity1

Told together with

50% Time-distortion drugs imagined as prison sentences 3 shared talks 22% Secret police department producing anti-regime jokes 2 shared talks 14% James Bond Quantum of Solace, no sex at the end 2 shared talks 11% Dating agencies: 'find love without the fall' 2 shared talks 9% Remote-controlled rat 2 shared talks

Every retelling 6

57:10 Radical Politics Today: Hegel’s Teaching2015-07-25 · 1:48:48

Žižek's utopian vision of modern sex: he and a woman connect their respective sex-toys to electricity and let the machines enjoy each other while they drink tea and talk, relieved of the superego command to enjoy, real romance can emerge without pressure., illustrating superego command to enjoy,passivity,psychoanalysis today

1:09:36 The Freedom of a Forced Choice2014-11-22 · 1:24:08

The ideal politically correct date ends with each partner using their own plastic sexual apparatus (dildo / 'stamina training unit') connected to electricity, the machines enjoying for them while they have a nice cup of tea, the reductio ad absurdum of the contractualization and desexualization of sex., illustrating desexualization of sex,super-ego culpabilization,ideology

1:04:27 At Nuit Blache2012-09-29 · 2:06:58

A sex toy shaped like a flashlight with interchangeable orifices; Žižek uses it to illustrate the solipsistic endpoint of contemporary sexuality where the real partner is just a prop for private fantasy., illustrating masturbating with a real partner,solipsism,end of intersubjective sexuality

1:32:59 XLII Sigmund Freud Lecture by Slavoj Žižek: Theology, Negativity, and the Death-Drive2015 · 1:49:50

Description of 'stamina training units' (plastic vaginas for men) as the ultimate example of the failure of romance and the technological mediation of sexuality in the contemporary era., illustrating stamina training unit,obscene father

47:51 What Is to Be Done with Sex?2014-05-27 · 1:11:33

Žižek imagines a date where both partners bring their respective sex machines (a stamina training unit and a dildo), connect them, let the machines perform the act while they drink tea, discharging the super-ego duty to enjoy. By chance their hands meet and if they end up in bed it would be 'true sex' as pure surplus, without obligation., illustrating super-ego duty to enjoy,pure surplus sex,lathouse,surplus enjoyment

26:05 What is Happening with Sex in our World?2018-06-02 · 1:00:42

Žižek imagines a politically correct date: both bring their sex toys, place them on the table buzzing together, and have an intellectual conversation while 'the machines are doing it.' The joke exposes enjoyment as a superego obligation now outsourced to gadgets., illustrating decaffeinated enjoyment,contractualization of sex,superego and enjoyment