I think Zizek touches himself so often to assure himself of his own existence. At his level of abstraction, it is probably justified.

Zizek starts at 7:40 Lecture covers the philosophical consequences of the wired brain, with references to Hegel, Lacan and Marx. The status of individuality, thought, and freedom are discussed at length.

I like how if you binge his lectures over the years you can see how he brings in new bits and phases out and rearranges old ones

This took place the evening before the JP debate. At this time, JP was last-minute cramming, watching ŽŽ’s videos, shitting his pants and reading communist manifesto. I’m just saying they both had a nice evening.

The pure enjoyment of listening to Zizek's real life examples/stories is to imagine that there is no French man that told him about the French cuisine's failure successes. He actually meant it when he said that in order to not offend French people he pretends that a French guy told him so. Whether or not there is or isn't a French guy is just not important anymore if you think about it.

On the very last comment Zizek made, regarding his desire to talk to so-called democratic socialists in the US, he suggested that he would like to ask them what they really want, relating it back to the confusion and resistance to any meaningful goals by actors in occupy wall street. In the US, the term socialism has such a negative historical stigma for most, the use of the word is most perplexing. I was 13-15 at the end of the Cold War. I remember when Red Dawn came out. I was a child. I had nightmares about invading Soviet troops and the constant threat of a global nuclear tragedy. In other words, as a child, I was a true believer. I’m not any longer, but many people in their forties and older bear this mark even still. For me, this epistemological break was profound, and while I have seen other peers try to get at the roots of this clear historical bias, few ever escape the imprint that the clear association between the socialism and authoritarian/totalitarian associative fallacy. In light of this fact, it’s a borderline miracle that the term socialism has made it back as a ‘mainstream’ talking point at all. It, nevertheless, has, but the fact that it has is what makes Zizek’s question so interesting. On the surface “Democratic Socialism” is associated with some form of national health care, “free” college, student loan forgiveness, paid family leave, and a few other distributive policies. Otherwise, the rhetoric reflects the spirit of occupy. In this sense, US socialism of the 21st century is a kind of socialism without history. On some level there could be a kind of virtue to this because it has a potential to re-evaluate some of the historical assumptions that my generation almost absolutely takes for granted as self evident facts. It also has some real dangers in how “progressive” media outlets, such as David Pakman, “define” socialism in incredibly reactionary ideal type terms. (See UKposts David Pakman “Why I’m Not a Socialist”). As both of these tendencies meet, there’s an opportunity that has not been present in the US for a while, but there are other serious ontological and epistemological questions that have to be advanced before anything truly meaningful could be considered, specifically as it relates to identity questions transcending nation-state/citizenship identity constructs. Either way, I’m from the US, and I’m familiar with some of the rich complexity that questions posed by thinkers like Zizek stir up. Also, I am NOT an academic. I left the academy long ago, so on some level, that makes me a truly embedded organic intellectual for a piece of the working class. In this respect, I would simply say that while I am certain that Bernie Sanders has a cursory understanding of socialism, he has no understanding of Marx, Hegel, or any school that approaches historical questions dialectically, as it relates to socialism. He is hardly alone in this respect. Most folks look through ideal type lenses, offerings technical and organizational solutions that focus on distributional questions. Thank you for sharing this lecture. Sincerely. A comrade from the south.

i dont understand what he is talking about but I listen to him a lot... I always feel smarter

He sure does love that coffee joke

31:50 the trick of human psyche is that the prohibition of enjoyment always turn into enjoying the prohibition itself

One of the best zizek lectures I have heard. Skip the intro and the questions after, and squint and really take in the five or so theses. I don't think he often manages to draw full circles as he draws one here. Hope you've actually read some of these authors...

On a Zizek binge.

Enjoyed this lecture. Think he was saying we are complicated, not so rational as we think. That live and our labors reward us for a price

I love the Dutch auto-generated subtitles. Slavoj always beats UKposts in terms of language.

*Failure trying to put Zizek in the social justice sphere* and so on Besides the massive wisdom download...Every time I watch Zizek I start touching my Nose and pulling on my shirt

I love his perspective of the illusion of perfection.

I love this guy. You can laugh all you want but I agree with him on most points

I love this man

Zizek vs the Human Instrumentality Project

I've learned to ignore the comments section on any Zizek video because y'all can't get past his tics. Boring and unenlightened.

1:44:15 How do we define work? Is the pursuit of knowledge work? Is political innovation work? Is the invention of self-working systems work after they are put into action? Is commentary on other peoples work work? Is motivating others work? Is writing comments on youtube work? Is writing articles for wikipedia work? Is giving thumbs up or down to rate a product online work? I think we allready are very close to a system where there is no work, only titles, offices etc.

great introduction!

He asks the question of what we as humans should do. It's starting to meditate and start working on ourselves as explore and discover who we are through it's process. Well I got a perhaps a quite far fetched but still very simple for answer for that question. But we as humans should all start to seriously start looking at ourselves and explore our own inner selves as those around us. This as to who we are as a person, as what we did with our lives throughout our life already in comparison to how and what we thought about everything and everyone back in those days it took place as to how we do so in modern times. This seems like a good start for all of us, with afterwards or during this process we all start to learn to being able to love ourselves and be ourselves without having to hide our emotions, past, dreams or ones opinions this irregardless from others our ourselves. Cause it's impossible to create a better future for ourselves if we neglect and hide from our past instead of processing and learning from it, as for how could one ever see a positive and great future if they afraid to look at and deal with that what has created our seemingly dark prospects. The reason, simple. The better we are able to deal with ourselves in a positive and constructive manner, the better we will be able to do so with each other and even unconsciously to automatically start doing it because of it.

My understanding of the death drive is: and I quote from Freud: "What we want is to return to the inorganic state." for me this statement is we desire to find rest from the striving excess of pleasure (juouisance = excessive pleasure). What we are looking for is relief, an end of desire. We just "want it all to stop."

Professor speaks humanity, Philosopher speaks divinity.

I love your channel. You take both sides into consideration

this lecture really is. AXWORTHY

*sneefing and so on begins at * 7:35 how should I poot eet?

Slavoj, you should come to Winnipeg when it's -40C in January. There is nothing like being frozen solid...besides Winnipeg is beautiful!

These people mostly did a decent job of not symbolically castrating poor old Slavoj - I mean calling him "dr. Zizek" and later even "mr. Zizek" instead of "professor" - but that woman at the end really did a number on him! Well, he got her back with that final joke at least.

There is a philosophy according to "flesh" which is founded on individual reasoning in the absence of sufficient data and of any supernatural intuition. (ancient Protagorism as well as the rationalist thought of the moderns).

master!!!

I love that picture of Zizek. I would feel better if it was hanging on my wall.

I would like to hear more about his ideas on the rise of Western religious/political fundamentalism. He touched on it in another of his talks, but didn't expand on it. If anyone knows if he addresses it anywhere in detail, could you please link me?

Anyone else feel like your uncle is trying to talk to you about how crazy technology is becoming - without actually knowing the stage and endgame of the endeavours he's discussing? And yet it's forgivable because he's Zizek. Love it.

Once you get past the tics he's a really loveable, wise and funny bloke. Smart, too.

What he says about Italy is true, with the precisation that it is the 5-stelle movement (a bit like an organised version of the gilets jaunes) that introduced the measures that the PD ("left") should have done years ago: not the Lega (extreme right-wing). Although the latter manages often to steal the limelight, the coalition is not really far right. We must remember that there are two populist parties which are opposed but in coalition, which is a very particular situation, unlike e.g. Poland.

50:10 Zizek controlling the cameraman with his mind

I mean, we understand non-verbal communication more than verbal. We observe rather than we hear.

From 1:20:00 forward, you could summarise his ideas as: "we live in a society"

Obstacles leading to perfection, is true with sports or other skilled activities as well. Like, the obstacle is, wanting to achieve something. Buddhism would agree. But the obstacle is wanting to achieve, and the difficulty lies in the path to achievement.

Comic value of Slavoj never gets old.

A true phylsopher !!!

he doesn't trust that chair

Please, could you add subtitles??

19:47 Check out how Zizek says "eh" every couple of words. I think he's sending us a hidden morse code.

I don't understand why he never mentions Bataille in these talks, especially when he talks about the eroticizing mechanisms of prohibition, compulsive rituals etc..

Those interested in a good scifi movie which deals with experiences via wired brain to computer connections, watch the movie Strange Days . Angela Basset is in it too.

Sounds like the ‘End of Evangelion’

My god, how they love to call each other "doctor." Straight out of Spies Like Us. As always, Zizek's a great entertainment, and reminds me that I probably don't know what I"m talking about :)

He seems like the only person there that's not a robot

His point about rape is very well taken. (at about 20 mins)

basic income does not mean people dont work - when people have a little money they spend it in their communities getting baby sitting, baby clothes, hairstyles, nails, beauty products clothes candles - little luxuries . this is the Anima economy - work from home. Animus people can do carpentry yard work etc, minding old people will provide work, and old people can look after children. Workers create all wealth. The population IS the wealth - taking care of our own needs. The brilliant and driven can run the larger world, a basic income allows people with small ambition to take care of ourselves within the structure. And those who are unable will be taken care of.

As someone on who is the subject of the experiment of having your inner life shared, it's just a dehumanizing nightmare, profoundly invasive and profoundly undemocratic. Of course I did not give consent, so maybe that matters.

You're talking about hive brain, it's distinct from the concept of singularity. Singularity with regards to intelligence is only achieved by a self evolving general AI. But the possibility of AI singularity is theoretical and low-key not proved yet. The domain of AI needs the secong coming of Turin to figure this stuff out mathematically.

Glad I now know where the toilets are

Because of the implication

14:10 The idea that we think in words is manufactured by the method of working in language. The linguistic turn needs to be redirected. It's the problem of the hammer seeing only nails.

Social justice and public good should not be put in the same sentence!

He is so addictive its crazy :O

I always wonder, how one would theoretically describe in terms of freedom the situation when the human himself controls the own remote control.

Could anyone explain the "coffee without a cream"?

Interesting how so many comments are lost in trifle matters like his sniffing and shirt tugging, instead of considering the tremendous source of creative thought this guy's downloading.

Does anyone know of any studies for his claim that children prefer painting with colors and adults black and white? It's very interesting to me and I'd love to see some objective evidence.

1:10:15 Every universality is exclusive, and that's what's good about it.

Notice how he subtly insults the audience explaining who Hegel was. ❤️

Please change language to English so legends, close captions are possible.

Is the person who takes suicide neutral?

1:48:20 -- what do they want?

7:40 That's when the magic starts

If we ever do have virtual reality which matches some kind of best case idea, like something from rick and morty or ready player one and so on. I imagine it will mainly be interfaced through the brain since our brains are already very very good at creating simulations almost a daily, what we would call dreams. Now this virtual reality wouldn't exactly be a dream, more or less a controlled computer simulation that utilizes our brains natural ability to interpret visual and audio data into something consistent and mutually experienceable.

42:36 Thinking as such, in some sense is evil.

I am Dr Johnny Unheardof and I am here to introduce Slavoj. 🤣🤣

somehow i just realized, he talks like a DUB DJ : when he is preparing/ reading the new thought, he just echos and repeats, the last words of the last sentence, of the last thought 😄✌🏼🇯🇲

14:30 Zizek makes the claim that "the moment you think in conceptual terms, you think in words". This is directly contradictory to Chomsky's claims about language and internal thought which can be viewed here: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/bYmJjH1_rqOgyIk.html

The Borg is here and its name is Musk.

7:26 if you want to skip the first two guys

55:34 "trigger warning" lol

".. if there is a God for you... you perceive your self as a Gods instrument.. , THEN everything is permitted to you ! " P.S Dostoevsky wrought, and Peterson quotes, that if there is no God for you, then everything is permitted to you. hahah

1:38:55 -- Venezuela

Can anybody tell me the moment when Zizek talks about the moderate alienation of the leftists.

Skip to 7:35 for straight to Žiž

ŽIŽEK ⭐

I really admire Doctorow as an activist and public speaker but I can't read his books. I think it's because he targets them at the younger audience and uses trivial stories to realise his ideals, while literature as a tool of propaganda is really a failed idea. Because literature is the place where we create ideals, not propagate them.

What year is this?

Winnipeg...the hot bed of socialism

Zizek starts at 7:36

Has Zizek ever debated a neurologist? I hear him talking about how brains work, but I think his talks could benefit from reading Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity, by Thomas Metzinger, if he hasn't already.

Zizek is basically saying it's better to almost become rich than it is to before rich, almost happy than happy. Which had me in stitches; is it better to almost live than to live? His other point about once sex/desire is available it becomes less desirable being what makes us human. That is simply not true since it's also true for animals from countless rat studies, for example if a rat is always given plenty of food its brain produces very little dopamine once it checks the container, however once the frequency in which it is given food is randomized the produced dopamine is many folds the previous cases. Such is the example of the human and desire too.

Dont forget, and so on and so on

I think in images a lot of the time.

32:02 Zizek on simps

Slavoj implies that some are already controlled beyond Individual logic. I would suggest that this is already happening, as indicated by huge amounts of emotional disturbances instead of logic or wisdom, in the Democrat leaders in the United States.

Touching the nose is pure Ideology

i'm so sad i didn't attend this school when Zizek was visiting..

0:20 The social justice professor ritualistically "acknowledges" that he is on "indian treaty land", and then what? If he feels so guilty, should he DO something about it? Like getting together with his SJW buddies, saddle up a bunch of bulldozers and demolish the university , then announce that they have finally restituted the ancestral land to their original owners... I can't wait for that to happen !!! Before each lecture, in ALL Canadian universities, this "guilt acknowledgment" has been repeated thousands of times, and yet not a single square inch of "treaty land" has ever been restituted... What's THE POINT of these ENDLESS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ???

Legend holds, Zizek once paid so he can pull a filibuster.

I.M.O: His perspectives are so nuanced and unrestricted(not polarized) by pre-approved narratives that people often miss/overlook his brilliance, and preconceive the sentiment he's forwarding to be rooted in a typically classic Marxist/S.J.W/communist/socialist/radical leftist/progressive perspective. Everything I hate about Marxism is also detested by Zizek, yet he's still credited(or discredited depending on your appeal)as being a Marxist. Jordan Peterson didn't even know how to deal with said nuance, and even he was taken back by Zizek's authentic approach to the matters in question. One of the few intellectual titans who doesn't seem to be motivated by an "us V.S them" connotation. I'm an evil capitalist, so my appeal to Zizek is kind of a big deal for me.

44:00

> sociologist wat

36:35