Wake up babe new Zizek event

Randomly searching for "Zizek" on YT and seeing a new video makes my day!

New haircut dropped

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In a good shape : physical and mental !

As a Buddhist, I have to agree with Zizek on the Gita. I was horrified when I first read that passage he quotes as a child, and as an adult I have to say we should still be horrified. It is ultimately a justification for the kshatriya warrior caste’s existence. Buddha’s spiritual revolution was to deny this- deny caste, deny violence, and preach the practice of ahimsa. Any later adoption of this by Hindu philosophy is just that, an adoption

His talks at universities are the best... He goes into more depth, develops his arguments more, gives more ecamples... I wish he would do tgat in media interviews too

Slavoj Zizek ( b.21 March, 1949 ) Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalyst, critic, cultural theorist, professor, and public intellectual.

Even if he's pissed me off in recent years especially, I'm gonna say; St Žižek,pray for us!🙏🤔

The knot with Zizek is that you never really know how to evaluate any of his works. The dialectical serpent behind his train of thoughts is always elusive. You never know, for example, when the "hardline communist" interpretation of Antigone would be his favorite one. You never know what subtle twist he's gonna perform to his topics. In other words, Zizek and his elusive dialectical serpect amount to something akin to Derrida's style: "oh, you didn't quite understand me here! Let me tell you what you've missed!". Even after 12 years of studying him, I'm still not able to predict his readings (apart from the more obvious "it's the opposite/quite on the contrary" moments).

Žižek at a Catholic university. The Chomsky crowd will have a field day! Go Slavoj!

Great talk! I was up until late to finish it, but it was worth it.

You know, the older I get, and the more of the world I see, the more I agree with this Slavic comrade.

Fruitful food for thought!

Slavoj, to je res odlično!

Wow what a beautiful introduction! A truly beautiful work 😊

Sharp as ever - one of the greatest philosophers and societal pathologist of our time

“Time for questions…” Guy stands up and makes a speech. God I hate that about these type of events.

the greatest philosopher of our time

Min 31: I’m the guy who posted on reddit. Zizek mentions it like “an attack on him” but I start my post saying “I love Zizek”. It wasn’t an attack, I love and admire this guy and I will continue to read this guy.

Starts 9:55

The advantage of democracy is *not* that majorities never make mistakes (as, for example, in xenophobically cracking down on immigration). It’s that, when they do, they can learn from those mistakes and correct them. And the gamble is the equilibriums achieved by democratic processes are more ethical and enduring than top-down 'monarchial' impositions.

Wish i knew this was happening!

10:34 --PaCt!!

I believe he will be remembered as the most influential philosopher of our time. Though many today consider him as a clown.

The ability to hyper coordinate global power, whether it is social, economic, politically, and technologically in a structural form, a lever is provided to those not qualified or contextually authorized to assert let alone under its own prerogatives. There is complexity in today's elevated normative functions in every sphere have a displacement effect, where a loaf a bread 100 years ago required tens of people to realize in some form of exchange, now requires .00001 persons to achieve the same.

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That's fucked up how they used to torture bears and sell tickets.

EYY zizek looking good

1:13:08 what is the difference between Zizek's "universality" and metaphysical idealism? The masses need to be convinced of Reality one step at a time! They won't be able to unsee it once they do see it!

15:54 it’s desensitizing and depersonalization teaching you cause and effect like Pavlovian response training.

In which of his books does zizek talk about his conception of obscenity in more detail? Does someone know?

The self IS real! AND the self is connected to everything else! It's not that complicated! It's just a dialectic! Dialectical Materialism!

He seems to have difficult delivering owing to flue. Btw, fruitful reflections!

23:38 The poems of Dorothy Parker or the movie do and the vicious circle

42:14 “She says: if it were for my children, my father, my mother…husband even, L E T T H E M R O T”

Žižek X Jordan collab: Why Authoritarian Leaders Need Jesus.

38:29 that’s his/my dyslexia. Order for him are instructions. Order for me is conscious awareness/mindfulness.

Actually, support for a Palestinian state is the official policy of the German government, always has been. It's just that the Netanyahu apologists were able to manipulate German guilt and fear of anti-Semitism, but that's been wearing off for a while now.

Germany was hysterical after October 7th. It wasn't possible to make an argument. Were Zizek to return now, he would find a very different environment.

31:54 again Robert sapolsky

I wish there were proper captions on this video.

It'd be nice if Zikek would locate and publish a few of Jordan Peterson's many pro-Nazi statements for the benefit of his fans.

Shouldn't we treat the Western attitudes towards military sacrifice similar to enjoyment of torture? It struck me always as somewhat "medieval" the way WW1, WW2 and others are celebrated: in the UK: death cult around the Cenotaph (an empty shell of a prop!), USA - same. Celebrations commemorating the sacrifice make no mention of the fact the fallen had zero choice and were almost exclusively poor, working class (rich people's kids got desk jobs - original keyboard warriors!). Very similar to the way Iran celebrates their student "martyrs" who the mullahs sent to clear minefields by walking through them in the 1980s. I see little difference between that and what prof. Zizek mentions about the orthodox priest's blessing. Note to the sound recordist: I feel that, if you wanted to include the laughter, its volume should be at 50% at most so the sound of the room is not so pronounced.

Part 1 (Up to 17:00 mins in). I presented a maxim to myself to lay of his politics stuff for a while, but is it possible to be Kantian today? The notion of "Surplus enjoyment" is from Lacan and is a reworking of Marx's notion of "surplus value". In Marx "surplus value" is an excess from the Real, the Real is that which returns to itself. It is at once the externalisation as a Universalisation of what is really only an historical contingency. For example the naturalisation, eternalisation, of the "normal" family for humanity, when it is merely the most efficient way of reproducing labour at a particular moment or phase in economic progress. I think this means for Marx a kind of alienated but "inert" (me) fetishism, it plays no feed back or return role to the Real, which is of course economic materialism. For Lacan on the other hand the psychoanalytic notion of "surplus value" its self, of something like a pleasure beyond simple utility, does return to effect the psychological base. This suggests a kind of anti foundationalism, since the psychological base is always already "effected" (me) by its own surplus. We cannot experience objects that are not always already "presented" to us though the effect of their "errored or "fetishized" excess. So neither of my two books on Zizek: Zizek: A Critical Introduction by Sarah Kay; and Zizek: A guide for the Perplexed by Sean Sheehan, have "Surplus value" in their indexes. That is odd since I'm sure it is a key concept or tool for Zizek. I mean if it was in the index it would make life easier, in the sense of a quick reference before stampeding to Wikipedia. If it was in the index it could be said to be a surplus value to the text that makes no difference to the text itself. But on the other hand does an index make a difference to a text, a difference that "changes" the text at once. You know when you get a new book you do straight to the index to look up key words, or in a shop or online they usually give you the index for "free" perhaps as an "advert" for the book. Indeed one can imagine a writer begging with the most searched words on a subject they intend to write about, and then writing the index first and the book as an excuse. They might even think of a really good book title before writing the book. I bet Derrida has said this somewhere probably in his "Truth in Painting" and essays on "Framings". The account of “surplus value” I have already drawn on I’ve got from Zizeks “The Sublime Object of Ideology” (1989) an early book then. It’s called out on pages 50-55. It’s fairly clear if you already know Kant Hegel Marx Freud and Lacan as well as Zizek. If you are not part of, or have ever been in, this “inner intellectual sanctum” you will not understand it, and the New Young Communists will be able to enjoy making you look like a fool like you don’t belong. There is though a cure, or penitence for this shame: the offer to join if you’ve got a few years. Then you too can be the first one on your block to shame your ignorant neighbours. Opps sorry! I’m enjoying myself too much. Ask yourself if this last a paragraph has changed the first two now, so you can never read them for the first time again.ie they are not then simply introductory paragraphs or axioms. It too late for that now. This discourse by Zizek is not really a talk to give information and enlightenment, its more like a “Speech Act” (J.L. Austin) or Performance (J. Butler) a clever doing (is clever being used as an adverb here?), an instruction, a training. It looks like just an education but the aim is action, that is your action, to join in, not so much the “inner intellectual sanctum” but join the writing Comments Activism on this You Tube video, then gradually to join in the Street Protests, and who knows, or better walks to where that will end? We can begin with on line video games and end up on a real battle field. The intellectual background, note not foundation, though can be leapfrogged. You can bring your kids along to the Street Protest and have them shout out some meme based on “surplus enjoyment”. It might be good training for future activist to become actualised in their post facto self-conscious potential. Hell they might even go to University, get a PhD, and teach this to students of their own. That is become trainers in praxis, not givers of knowledge, and Critique. Their job is to “change the world not understand it” as someone once said. A lecturer as “Speech Agent” might say to the students “speaking as a Zizekian “I am” for Zizek’s ideas” or better, graduate to acting like a Zizekian “I do” become a legal representative, and advocate for some group or groups. I am “not a Zizekain” and I am “not doing Zizekainsim” here, but can I really do a not doing a Zizekainsm? Well yes I can ‘cos it’s too late for me I’ve read loads of his stuff, and watched loads of his video’s. I’ve even seen him live asked him to explain how Hegel can account for inner determination in Kant. Musty that be only a negative or a hole for Hegel’s sublimation of all things familiar into an excess of law as justice, and science as Speculative efficiency? Gosh its all gone a bit Ad hominon, but is that a genuine a historical limit for Communists? Or just a stage I’m at. Is ad homion a mere contingent fallacy of our local conventions and academic mores to be junked when the time is just right? The appropriate time to change what is appropriate.

Pro-monarchy body along with democracy? Good thinking. But how come Žižek, who is old enough, doesn't remember, elaborate and instead of monarchy puts forward the ancient Greek democracy experience with the "COUNCIL OF THE WISE", a body of smart old men without political power but absolute power for moral and ethical issues etc.? There is a surplus of wise and experienced people in each country who are excluded from decision making, as only the ones representing some kind of actual economical interest are admitted to decision making. He, as a philosopher, should propose such a thing before those who are in power now to get it eventually accepted into the system. They'd spoil the idea "on the input" as any other proposals so far to change the state of affairs in the democracy of the so-called western type. It should not be a "reinvention of hot water" taken from the old Greeks but a critical analysis of how that had worked out for them and how it could be expected to function nowadays and how properly introduced into today's democracy. Another experience from the old Greeks, potentially useful for "correcting" the nowadays democracy, would be a novel use of OSTRACISM. In the era of INTERNET it should be relatively easy to reinvent it without the actual use of the broken pottery etc... The idea should be not the temporary banishment from the society of potential dictators (nowadays they don't consider themselves dictators, they exclude voluntarily from the society by living in fortified haciendas, flying private jets etc.) but to exclude them from gaining political power and preventing them from making harm to the people and the planet, force them to just enjoy their wealth etc.. Maybe, just maybe in this way the power of the most wealthy could be reduced not only for the sake of most of us but also for their own benefit: still better than a scene with a crowd of dissatisfied people coming to them to scratch out their eyes, breaking fences on their way etc... The third proposal of mine is for the Slavoy to finally take time and watch the OPPENHEIMER, or at least the sexual scene he is referring to in its entirety. He definitely gives too much credit to the philosophical issues involved.

What does Zizek know of obscenity.?

...dem friseur sei auch gedankt..um alte spreu vom neuen ..zizek zu trennen ---- sieht verdammt gut aus ..in den letzten wochen ... maybe something more than spring whats in te AIR .ukposts.info/have/v-deo/qqKHeHeLrYua1XU.html

Old russian joke remade with putin xi and trump: 1:08:32

Get this man a handkerchief

Zizek seems obsessed with fascism, and that is obscene.

No props to the sound mixer 👎

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As far as I know, 'Nasism' was subordinate, adjunct to the great 'Sionism' project; why on earth would anybody take at face value what is said publicly by a leader of Shin Bet [Hidden Shield/Unknown Manoeuvre]?

This dude supports Israel 🤣🤣🤣

Court Jester

This guy is a joke

Who is the subterranean animal sitting next to Zizek?

He(Zizek) expressed his willingness to implement policies of liberal economic restructuring, which had already had catastrophic consequences for workers, asserting that he’s a “pragmatist” in this area: “if it works, why not try a dose of it?”[38] Indeed, he openly advocated for “planned privatizations” and flatly asserted, like a good capitalist ideologue: “more capitalism in our case would mean more social security.”[39] This was, once again, in perfect line with Reagan’s NSDD 133, which explicitly called for “Yugoslavia’s long-term internal liberalization” and the promotion of a “market-oriented Yugoslav economic structure.”[40]- Dr G.Rockhill.

这黑白封面我差点以为他死了

45:49 and occupation of the West Bank apartheid en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-state_solution