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Zizek

Videos

• They Live, the greatest film EVER. Eat the ideology, EAT IT!
• Zizek "The Third Pill" Fiction as more true than reality and truth

Writings

• Zizek's work is infamously idiosyncratic. It features striking dialectical reversals of received common sense. . .
• Examples of Zizek's reversals (counter-intuitiveness)

Ideology

Videos

• Althusser's Ideology

Writings

• Ideology of whiteness

Language Codes

Videos

• Idea Framing, Metaphors, and Your Brain - George Lakoff
• Start this video at 7:07; end at 11:34

Writings

• "Metaphors of/for Language in Popular Culture"
• Exercise: How Language Can Control Our Thinking
• Lakoff and Johnson: Examples of Metaphorical Containers (pdf file)

Hyperreality

Videos

• Matrix Scene: Desert of the Real
• Philosophy and the Matrix - Baudrillard
• Elon Musk and Our Simulated Reality

Writings

• Schematic of hyper-reality
• Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulations (pdf)
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