The resignation of Jurij and the “Mossadization” of Žižek

The world is buzzing with news that the entire Venice Biennale jury has resigned due to the fact that Russia's participation in the world's largest art festival has been approved, bringing into question Israel's participation due to the current wars that those countries are waging.

Thanks to Žižek's to the text written for Today, we learn two pieces of information that are worth highlighting, namely 1) Netanyahu's the government has chosen Romana Hofmana for the leader of the Mossad, since he distinguished himself by his brutality during the "military" operations in the West Bank, 2) Gofman claims that he found his intellectual foundation in the works of Žižek, who, although an orthodox neo-Marxist, combines jokes, provocations, and wit in his books; this is an extremely non-academic discourse that is also very subversive.

What, ultimately, could these events have in common, even though they seem to evade attempts to place themselves in a broader context? Well, isn't the Italian Minister of Culture acting? Alessandro Giuli like Goffman only in the sphere of art, or: his actions are completely Goffmanian in terms of principle, given that by legitimizing the participation of Israel and America, he acts without exception like the current leader of the Mossad, therefore, the purpose of his hypocritical actions is par excellence political.

Driven by the need to keep art on the side of democracy and dialogue, promoting global peace in times of unbearable uncertainty, this year's jury, with its resignation, has made a positive contribution. politicized The Biennial, as a global art event, contrasted it with the politics of power that tacitly or sometimes openly approves genocide and aggression, while on the other hand, an extremely dangerous trend is emerging that must be responded to in a timely manner.

Namely, any criminal like Goffman can refer to a world-renowned philosopher as his inspiration and, with that gesture, try to discredit his intellectual work. Ajman during his trial in Jerusalem, he invoked the Kanta, and today the quasi-intellectual world considers it Nietzsche's 'Superman'(Ubermensch) was the model to which the Nazis aspired in their madness.

In an attempt to offer an example of how to act in a contemporary world dominated by wars, the now former Biennial jury provides full insight into the following matter: With their political gesture, they further problematized this year's Biennale, especially since Russia, like Israel, cannot be part of the world art event while their authorities are producing mass death. Simply put, unlike the aforementioned Italian Minister of Culture, the jury is of the opinion that one cannot be against one war while absolutely ignoring another, especially when it comes to Israel, which a large number of Jewish intellectuals are increasingly saying is growing and coalescing into a militant creation (for this occasion, we will mention the name Shlomo Sanda as a prominent post-Zionist).

Alongside this desirable controversy, which only for 'beautiful souls' casts a shadow over this year's Biennale, there is a persecution of globally influential intellectuals, from Yanis Varoufakis who is banned from entering Germany, via Judith Butler who is on the list of federal investigations, to Žižek, who has strongly resented Israel through political activism, and they have taken up the tactic of the notorious Golfman, 'intellectually appropriating' him as a role model, which is why his opponents immediately react with statements that there is nothing confusing about it, especially since he has long since aligned himself with the terrorists with his philosophy. Like this: who is silent about statements today Trampa how Tehran must pay a high price, then let it forever remain silent about what is happening in Ukraine!

So, somewhat summing up the repressive method of America and Israel towards undesirable/disobedient intellectuals, it could indeed be rightly said that those from the so-called 'perfect global community', plagiarizing Plato, persecute precisely those they consider dangerous, labeling them as, in fact, superfluous in times characterized by competitiveness factored into every field that serves neoliberalism: technoscience, mainstream culture as an extended effect of the ideology of late capitalism, political correctness based on labor cancel culture.

Žižek, however, is not a bad joke.

In one episode of The Simpsons, the mob boss, Fat Tony, bewilderedly asks a still-bewildered and frightened Homer, "Why is it so hard for people to tell me I'm perfect?" - which could easily be a question that would make Donald Trump or Netanyahu, no less, angry. Putin or Roman Hoffman, crown Žižekovác to whom, there is no doubt, the Slovenian philosopher is most close thanks to the contribution in which he offers us a new reading Jacques Lacan.

We assume that Žižek proposed something that deeply disturbs Israeli politics because the philosopher sees only one solution or way out, as he says - Israel will not have security until the Palestinians have a state..

However, ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank is a more acceptable option for Goffman and many others, although the cost of that, he will say, is Yuval Noah Harari, the "suicide of Judaism", the persecution and pogrom of two million Palestinians cannot fail to leave a mark that will sooner or later eat away at a community in the long run.

According to the philosopher, Goffman appropriates it because it is an important point for him, in which the 'Hegelian' sees how the state itself violates its own legal order, mobilizing illegal violence in order to reproduce itself. In the field of art, today, something like this happens: the entire jury resigns a few days before the opening of the Venice Biennale due to the participation of Russia and Israel, thereby siding with art that can still relate to power autonomously.

In an effort to avoid any possible misunderstanding, let us mention the extremely hypocritical "position" of the Italian Minister of Culture, who, according to media reports, will boycott the Biennale, however, in his statement to "Haretz" there is a promise that the work Bel-Simmons Fainaru to be promoted and exhibited in Italy as part of an initiative by the Ministry of Culture.

Let's retell the joke with which Žižek ends his book of essays Start from scratch. “In 15th-century Russia under Mongol occupation, a peasant is walking with his wife along a dusty country road when he is stopped by a Mongol warrior who is coming to meet them and tells the peasant that he is now going to rape his wife, to which he adds: Since the ground is dusty, while I rape her, you will hold my balls so that I don’t get them dirty! When the Mongol finished his work and started to leave, the peasant began to laugh; the wife, surprised, asks him: How can you jump for joy when I have just been brutally raped in front of you? The peasant replies: I tricked him! I held his balls so that they were completely dusty!”

The Italian Minister of Culture is in the same position as the peasant in the joke, and after the Biennale closes in November, he will be jumping around happily because he showed his stance towards Russia, whose pavilion will be open on the first day and closed for the next six months, which is a cultural policy of dirtying the eggs of both Israel and Russia, no less, even though Italian culture has been brutally raped in this way thanks to him.