TISA negotiations as secret determination of economic life

As told 3

“extremely important negotiations which will really pre-determine the basic coordinates of our economic life, flow of information for decades to come, and it's simply not debated in public.”
13:16 A Defense of Universalism2014-12-12 · 1:24:09

“it's even part of the text of the agreement that when it will be accepted, enforced, it should remain secret for five years”
1:01:26 A Philosophical Journey Through A Concept2014-09-23 · 1:11:38

“for five years after it will be accepted and enforced for five years it should remain secret”
40:37 The Freedom of a Forced Choice2014-11-22 · 1:24:08

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

formal freedom ×1 domination appearing as its opposite ×1 cognitive mapping ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

John Boorman1 Richard Branson1 Fernando Pessoa1 Joe Slovo1 Maurizio Lazzarato3 Jo Nesbø1 Pablo Iglesias Posse1 Warren Buffett1

alongside works

The Zero Marginal Cost Society1 Flash Boys1 Figures of Negativity1 The Snowman1 The Google Archipelago (Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet)1 Zardoz2 In the World Interior of Capital1 Economy and the Future1

Told together with

50% Vertigo, the fantasmatic shot of Madeleine 2 shared talks 50% Killings of Indigenous women in Vancouver reserves 2 shared talks 29% Caesar crossing the Rubicon 2 shared talks 29% Ciudad Juárez femicide as ritual 2 shared talks 25% The Banana Peel and the Lady 2 shared talks 14% Apartheid justified in multiculturalist terms 2 shared talks 6% Starbucks ethical consumerism 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

13:16 A Defense of Universalism2014-12-12 · 1:24:09

Žižek points to the then-secret TISA trade negotiations as an example of how key decisions pre-determining economic life for decades are made without public debate, illustrating the gap between formal personal freedom and real structural unfreedom., illustrating formal freedom,domination appearing as its opposite,political freedom

1:01:26 A Philosophical Journey Through A Concept2014-09-23 · 1:11:38

Negotiations on the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) were conducted in secret and the text stipulated it must remain secret for five years after ratification, illustrating how decisive economic constraints on freedom are invisible to citizens exercising consumer choice., illustrating freedom and collective agency,cognitive mapping

40:37 The Freedom of a Forced Choice2014-11-22 · 1:24:08

The TISA agreements regulating financial and information flows were negotiated secretly, and stipulate that after acceptance they remain secret for five years, all major decisions made without democratic input and hidden from citizens., illustrating freedom of choice vs. freedom to choose coordinates,ideology,capitalism vs. democracy