Interesting - Zizek, of all people, comes out publicallyon the right side of the Polanski thing. (I assume I don't have to say which side is the right one.)
What people aren't recognizing is that we're not debating whether the request for extradition is fair or just, or whether it ought to have happened. It happened. That's now a fact of the situation. It's also a fact of the situation that if he beats it he will have done so by virtue of being a respected filmmaker and celebrity with influential connections. Regardless what those connections think they're doing by advocating for him.
The question at hand now is, simply, whether this is to be acceptable.
The extradition and sentencing are either justice or a miscarriage of justice. If justice, then the principle at stake is whether talent and celebrity shoud allow a confessed rapist to escape justice. If miscarriage, then the principle at stake is whether talent and celebrity should allow this confessed rapist to escape miscarriage of justice, when a relative nobody might not. Either way the principle is the same. Is there one law, or two?
It's not that big a secret. Lacan confounds me utterly, though, and my grasp of Hegel isn't what it never was in the first place, so I've no basis for an opinion of him a philosopher (and thus have none). Still, a lot of the criticism I've read seems to be exactly the kind of thing I might have said, five years ago, which automatically renders it suspect.
Besides, who else could make an astute and witty commentary out of "I am on the toilet"?
Lacan is probably the best disciple of Freud's, or at least Lacan among the other big names of the French psychoanalytic scene, who are largely the only psychoanalysts who take (i) Freud, and (ii) the ethics of psychoanalysis completely seriously. It is however completely baffling that he holds such interest among those with no involvement in clinical psychoanalysis. Hegel is just teh awesome. Zizek strikes me as crazy and on coke, but usually amusing and occasionally very insightful.
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There's always the position that both sides are wrong.
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The question at hand now is, simply, whether this is to be acceptable.
The extradition and sentencing are either justice or a miscarriage of justice. If justice, then the principle at stake is whether talent and celebrity shoud allow a confessed rapist to escape justice. If miscarriage, then the principle at stake is whether talent and celebrity should allow this confessed rapist to escape miscarriage of justice, when a relative nobody might not. Either way the principle is the same. Is there one law, or two?
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Besides, who else could make an astute and witty commentary out of "I am on the toilet"?
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