"Kill him, liquidate him and so on and so on" - Slavoj Zizek

He always provides food for thought. What a time to be alive, that makes us able to assist conferences like this without spending a dime... and travelling without moving.

“This man needs no introduction” gives him one anyways

I see Slavoj dressed up a bit for this one. Brilliant man. I have learned so much from him, but most importantly I have learned to think in new ways.

I love Zizek... I hope he lives till he reaches 100 years old...

Zizek at a high level of coherence, clarity, concise. Excellent, thanks for uploading.

29:50 “ A true master” the best part. Not a master of prohibitions but a master who help you to decide your true self

This is the first thing I’ve seen of Žižek’s after finally finishing his first book and I have to say, it is soooo much easier to understand where this (seeming) ramble is coming from. He has truly been saying these same things since 1987.

that may be the best and most complete summary of contemporary ideological conflicts i have ever witnessed

Alot of interesting development in his ideas at this point in time. I especially liked his Hegelian plea at the end to "recognise the mistake and go to the end". History must be enacted.

The lecture is quite good because seems like he’s really honed out his thousands of awesome and interconnected ideas in this presentation.

Phenomenal

Somewhere at Google there are CPUs just melting down to slag trying to power the auto caption on Slavoj lectures

A union of opposites seems absolutely necessary. Freedom and Control. What is the limit for each? Where does dystopia begin? The macro-level leadership vacuum I subscribe to. The prescriptive cure needs work in my view.

About the restaurant joke : upon choosing the restaurant I sometimes enjoyed proposing a place cheap enough that I could afford it on my own, to which the response was often times negative invoking the health benefits of higher standards (or mere discomfort should I propose to cook something) - so much so, that despite any appearing politeness, my message read something like "fuck you, if you want to be charitable, don't use me as a token of your generosity, and let's rather work on making decent food available to anyone, in the meantime, would you please join us "low ranking citizens" for just a single stupid meal or, if you need me to pretend like I depend on you, would you please tell me in the name of which madness you want me to?" In my mind this sounds both like a psychotic reaction (through distaste for the pretense involved in politeness) and a hysterical reaction (as I'm also genuinely curious what I'm supposed to be for the other) - now, upon noticing the traumatic discomfort I cause to my friends through such ways, I sometimes skip pretending like I hope to pay, which also deprives them of the heroic role (be it at the cost of my seeming bereft of gratitude) which only further convinces me that they are eager to follow such rituals, insofar as it allows them to feel like caretakers, a very human sentiment indeed, yet one that is easily diverted in over reliance on set rituals, which are a hallmark of obsessive neurotics such as Zizek - not to undermine his very inspiring work My question is then, why can't this ritual work the other way around? I'd be very happy to cook, in other words, play the provider in a way that is less eager to symbolise the coping (sweeping under the rug) mechanism of charity, and rather reminds of a certain order of necessity and its cost - ie. work goes into feeding ourselves, and if you want it to be invisible, it's gonna cost an effort that's not reducible to mere transaction, and equates with a lasting, everyday life, social change (and again, in the meantime, please bear the sight of a "slave")?

We need masters, but ones who do not actually identify with the distinction-ones who can fulfill the formal cohesive role of such power yet who are able to keep a distance from the intoxicating dimension of the symbolic position.

Im an anarchist, but despite Zizek's criticizm of anarchism, i appreciate his arguments. you rarely see someone criticizing anarchism more in depth, without using it as a synonym for chaos and disorder. I will point out though that I would love Zizek to go deeper into his presupposition that humans are evil by nature, as it's a crucial point in anarchist thought which trusts in the innate human cooperation and altruism.

“This situation makes what remains of the left desperate.” Indeed.

Pri 56;22 sta Gregor in Slavoj zamudila odlično priložnost, da bi citirala znameniiti: "Mehr Licht!". Pa še na temo praznih pregovorov bi se lepo vezalo 🙂

This is a boss update from Zaddy.

Hola Slavoj. Vengo del stream de La Inca. Saludos. Aguante Boca.

Was this lecture published anywhere, or is a copy of the transcript of the lecture available anywhere, please?

I’ve never seen him touch his face so less!

Who is the interviewer? He looks cute 😍

What books of zizek should I start reading? Thank you for your 1.

But representative democracy has never been about wanting to decide (that's why we choose people's representatives to be there in the first place). Yes, there is an irreducible level of alienation in the way a state works (an alienation we even secretly expect to be there), but that doesn't make democracy a fake. The "terror" of public scrunity is always there in a democratic state (like, say, Norway).

31:09 ❤

1:01:00 I love that sentiment. As an American who has spent time in Europe, international people speaking English is for sure its own dialect and also Americans in general don't speak English well bc our education

"if you are in a regime where things go bad if the master is stupid, then the regime is bad" Yes and, furthermore, leadership is for people who do not have adequate protocols.

Best slavvy ever ❤️

Mr Zizek is the best.

Usual casual listeners of zizek must be a bit lost when he quotes malabou ranciere and balibar 😂 People tend to forget he actually has a job

49:00 Žižeks father (third way, he positively suggests) tells openly - You have to like to go to grandmother. On the other hand, he criticises the capitalism, that orders us to enjoy and like hedonism. How those two are not exclusive?

'I can't understand him, can you?' Noam Chomsky.

I think his analysis would by stronger if he stopped referring to electoralism as democracy.

Whose servant is Slavoj Žižek?

57:23 "Okay, I also have lets say some problems with Stalin"

Iago?

Who is the host?

He accurately assessed the problem, but the medicine offered is far from palatable

32:00 An Orthodox Christian message to surrender yourself to the will of God.

hook

I wonder what he thinks about an AI master. Even if its tied to only one individual. All to balance out what he said "too much 'freedom' is unfreedom".

2:27 skip intro

It’s amazing how much Zizek talks 😂

I'm glad that the thumbnail firmly establishes that this is all indeed, sarcasm.

the father can say that and then give his best explanation , master as a teacher

It seems like most of the issues he is concerned with ultimately come down to the problem of individuality. I am just not sure why he appears to promote such an air of crisis around individuality. I think that the entire issue, where people want to pose communitarianism as a counterpoint to individualism might be aiming in the wrong direction. I’m not sure that it really speaks to the anarchic nature of today’s increasingly democratic/authoritarian looking society, if one considers the effects of social media and the Internet. I think the real issue is simply the road to discovering identity not with the state as some sort of abstract ideal, but with respect to various social groups that people find online and increasingly want to make part of their lives.

Yeah, Trump is definitely not a post-modernist. Using mental gymnastics for the sake of saying something paradoxical or provocative is pretty low.

in your case, it's clearly cocaine

Žižek is the Castro of Philosophy because he talks long like Castro.

Z presenting the "master" as a dorky fool coming up with nothing but hollow stereotypes and 'one fit's all' quotes. ➕ there's always a further quote available in this 'I told u so' manner Z 🛐 Excellent💯 %

Ukranians might have some solutions for Europe. Just look at Zelensky.

Why don't you mention Russia in your talk? There is a genocide occurring near us and you.

... it does come to my mind that the Pope calls himself "Servus servorum dei"; that means the the "Urfather" of political power in Europe is from his inception onwards the slave of the slaves.

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