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Netflix, Žižek, and Beethoven
That really isn't Žižek's point at all. He interprets the Ode to Joy as a *critique* of the ideology of a new world order founded on the brotherhood of mankind, on the grounds that it often depends in practice on a "zone of exclusion" for people who don't count as part of that mankind. For example, the Nazis, who were very much into "brotherhood" and whatnot... as long as you were German. By that interpretation, the middle *alla turca* march section doesn't represent "existing ideologies resisting the new idea of humanity", it represents the zone of exclusion that illustrates the hypocrisy and emptiness of the "new idea of humanity" contained in the original theme. (The use of a Turkish march style for that section is an obvious giveaway, especially since the European humanism of Beethoven's era often totally excluded non-Europeans.) Žižek's point in bringing up *A Clockwork Orange* is that Alex subscribes to this interpretation of Beethoven, and identifies personally with the zone of exclusion articulated in the *alla turca* section. Watch the movie again, and pay attention this time.— February 17, 2016 8:30 a.m.