Yugoslav army: Geneva Convention then targeting parachuters

As told 5

“I thought you were an intellectual, how could you be so utterly stupid?”
45:51 2011 as „The Year of Dreaming Dangerously“2012-04-25 · 1:47:37

“'Aren't you some kind of intellectual? How can you be so stupid then not to understand that?'”
11:41 Lubitsch: Cynicism, Humour and Commitment2018-05-07 · 1:30:23

“You appear to be an intellectual, how can you be so utterly stupid? Do you really not get it?”
27:37 Like a Thief in the Night: A Question of Manners2018-03-09 · 1:54:02

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

inherent transgression ×1 ideological fiasco ×1 economy of transgression ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Alec Baldwin2 Laurent de Sutter2 Richard Maltby2 Catherine Deneuve2 Arthur Koestler2 Francis of Assisi1 Herbert McCabe1 Gilbert Ryle1

alongside works

Sex and the City3 Heaven Can Wait2 The Smiling Lieutenant2 The Name of the Rose2 Trauer und Melancholie1 Il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel1 Liebe dein Symptom wie dich selbst1 An Hour with You1

Told together with

33% Hotel in Skopje: ashtray with no-smoking sign 2 shared talks 22% Casablanca fade-out (did they do it?) 2 shared talks 21% Brassed Off coffee invitation 4 shared talks

Every retelling 5

45:51 2011 as „The Year of Dreaming Dangerously“2012-04-25 · 1:47:37

In the Yugoslav People's Army, one morning's class taught the Geneva Convention prohibition on shooting parachuters before they land; the next class was practice targeting parachuters in the air. When Žižek naively asked about the contradiction, the officer called him utterly stupid., illustrating law and its transgression,resistance as part of the system

11:41 Lubitsch: Cynicism, Humour and Commitment2018-05-07 · 1:30:23

In consecutive military classes, Žižek is taught (1) that international law prohibits shooting paratroopers in the air, and (2) how to shoot paratroopers in the air. When he points out the inconsistency, the officer replies that only an intellectual could be so stupid as not to understand this., illustrating ideological inconsistency,explicit norms supplemented by implicit counter-norms

27:37 Like a Thief in the Night: A Question of Manners2018-03-09 · 1:54:02

In 1970s Yugoslav army, morning classes on international law (Geneva Convention: do not shoot parachuters in mid-air) were immediately followed, same officer, same day, by a class giving precise technical instructions on how to shoot a parachuter in mid-air. The soldier who raised the contradiction was told he was 'utterly stupid.', illustrating law and its obscene underside,ideology

35:19 Lubitsch in Times of Political Correctness2018-01-27 · 1:50:16

In the Yugoslav army in 1975, one class taught the Geneva Convention rule against shooting parachutists before they land; the next class by the same officer taught exactly how to shoot parachutists. A soldier who asked about the contradiction was told he was 'completely stupid'., illustrating perversion as hidden obverse of power,ideology as law + codified transgression

38:07 Lacan’s Four Discourses2014 · 1:16:01

In the same morning, soldiers were first taught the international convention forbidding shooting parachuters in mid-air, then next hour taught the ballistics of how to hit a parachuter in mid-air; when Žižek pointed out the contradiction, the officer called him an idiot., illustrating meta-rules,ideology,prohibition of the prohibition