United Airlines / Hemispheres magazine sex article

As told 3

“even kissing, deep French kissing, it's very good, it keeps the muscle strong so when you will be old the saliva will not be dropping for.”
49:53 On the Desert of Post-Ideology2012-10-02 · 1:59:31

“Isn't it time for an active businessman or woman today to outsource love life?”
~10:39 Freedom in the Clouds2011-10-21 · 1:35:48

“It was the most depressive text that I've read. All of it is argumentation how good sex is for your body. 'Do a lot of deep French kissing; your muscles will remain more firm.' It really ruins everything.”
54:51 Marx and Lacan: Surplus-Enjoyment, Surplus-Value, Surplus-Knowledge2016-05-24 · 1:55:33

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

controlled hedonism ×1 jouissance ×1 narcissism ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Walter Benn Michaels1 Stanley Fish1 Owen Flanagan1 Paul Celan1 Pranav Mistry1 Pol Pot1 Ezra Pound1 Saskia Sassen1

alongside works

Pellican Brief / All the President's Men1 Do the Right Thing1 Wittgenstein on Rules1 The Gray Eminence1 A Plea for Intolerance1 Me-ti: Buch der Wendungen1 L'Ordine Nuovo (journal)1 Project X2

Told together with

18% Bakhtin and the Stalinist Purges 2 shared talks 11% Brassed Off coffee invitation 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

49:53 On the Desert of Post-Ideology2012-10-02 · 1:59:31

An inflight magazine celebrated sex as medically healthy, good for the heart, muscles, and keeping facial muscles from sagging, epitomizing the horror of today's 'reasonable hedonism' that drains pleasure of enjoyment., illustrating reasonable hedonism,permissive superego,jouissance

~10:39 Freedom in the Clouds2011-10-21 · 1:35:48

On a United Airlines inflight magazine Žižek reads a piece suggesting busy executives should outsource their love life, mirroring the logic of the dating agency, love as managed service for narcissists., illustrating erotic love in late capitalism,narcissism,outsourcing

54:51 Marx and Lacan: Surplus-Enjoyment, Surplus-Value, Surplus-Knowledge2016-05-24 · 1:55:33

Žižek reads a two-page essay in United's in-flight magazine celebrating sex entirely through the lens of health benefits, muscles staying firm, saliva not dripping, which he finds the most depressive text he has read, as the injunction to enjoy via health instrumentalization ruins the enjoyment completely., illustrating super-ego injunction to enjoy,regulated consumerism,surplus enjoyment sabotaged