@qdnoktsqfr from zizek's essay on houellebecq ("NO SEX, PLEASE, WE'RE POST-HUMAN")pic.twitter.com/7AVRhakdXX
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@qdnoktsqfr from zizek's essay on houellebecq ("NO SEX, PLEASE, WE'RE POST-HUMAN")pic.twitter.com/7AVRhakdXX
I like how its just a meandering post around the idea that maybe women cant think.
Not a mad fan of Zizek's Lacan-Hegel mashup philosophy, and the alternative Zizek gives to his interpretation here is kinda dumb.
There's also the antihumanist/poststructuralist take: 'Human' is category appearing roughly in consonance with Enlightenment thinking that positivises certain terms—rational, male—and negates others—mad (hysterical [hysteria, a disease of the womb/matrix]), non-male, machine.
These latter then being surreptitiously deemed 'inhuman'. The Turing Test upsets the power differential these terms traditionally held and points to a dark subversion of Enlightenment constructions of human identity.
Turing test is a "passing test" (can a queer/male/machine "pass" as a straight/human/female)? This is something that was pointed out by (forget whom) as a feature made possible by Turing's sexuality.
I disagree though that male:female has been constructed by Enlightenment as human:machine though. You can't do this in a culture where the standard for males is to suppress emotions (i.e. be machine-like)
It's not a question of emotions vs their suppression, but of the capacity for simulation, or mimicry, which was attributed to women (specifically by Freud and also Nietzsche)—women are deceptive and false, and they only imitate while men create.
This was what I was referencing in zizek's quote
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