Rehabilitating Darth Vader and the Emperor

As told 3

“to do a new version of Star Wars rehabilitating the Emperor and Darth Vader as the progressive authoritarian leaders fighting a reactionary feudals like Jedi”
~1:20:54 Disorder Under Heaven.2019-10-07 · 1:31:10

“What if we say that all that Jedi and so on, these are reactionary particular feudalists and the Emperor and Darth Vader are the progressives who want equality?”
20:11 First as Tragedy, then as Farce2010-01-05 · 2:21:08

“my Stalinist almost dream with billions of dollars would be to remake Star Wars but with Darth Vader and Emperor as the good guys... and all those Jedi are reactionary feudals who resist people.”
52:15 Welcome to the Desert of Post-Ideology2012-08-23 · 1:00:34

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

Leo Strauss's game ×1 Western Buddhism ×1 fetishist mode of ideology ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Michael Nyman1 John Milton2 Wilfrid Sellars1 François Laruelle1 Mother Teresa1 Honoré de Balzac1 Leo Strauss1 Alan Turing1

alongside works

Paradise Lost2 La Mésentente (Disagreement)1 Rebecca1 Invented Traditions1 It1 The End of History and the Last Man1 Hakuchi (The Idiot)1 Star Wars3

Told together with

14% Heydrich playing Beethoven string quartets 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

~1:20:54 Disorder Under Heaven.2019-10-07 · 1:31:10

Žižek proposed to Hollywood contacts a Star Wars remake rehabilitating the Emperor and Darth Vader as progressive authoritarian leaders fighting reactionary feudal Jedi, extension of reading villains as authentic heroes., illustrating Leo Strauss's game,ideology and cinema

20:11 First as Tragedy, then as Farce2010-01-05 · 2:21:08

Žižek proposes a mega-experiment reshooting Star Wars with the Jedi as reactionary particularist feudalists and the Emperor/Darth Vader as progressives seeking equality against the caste-like diversity of princesses and noble houses., illustrating ideology in popular culture,universalism vs. particularity

52:15 Welcome to the Desert of Post-Ideology2012-08-23 · 1:00:34

Žižek expresses his 'Stalinist dream' of remaking Star Wars with Darth Vader and the Emperor as progressive centralizers and the Jedi as reactionary feudal resisters, using it to mock the Buddhist-inflected ideology of non-attachment to outcomes ('don't get too attached to things')., illustrating Western Buddhism as hamster,fetishist ideology