I'm not talking shit but the man who did the sound deserves a fucking medal for taking the hiss out of all of Slavoj's S's. Normally I have to turn him down and use subtitles as a backup but you did it man. You fucking landed on the moon.

Right when I was wondering why tf is he talking about Gangnam Style, he brings up Kung Fu Panda.

I can remember the beginning of every Zizek sentence, but never the end

This man is constantly like 5 to 10 years ahead of himself, like why do his speeches make more and more sense as time passes

41:32 - "Again, this is my link with Kung Fu Panda" I fucking lost it there!

Zizek wears a suit when he goes to sleep and a pijama when he talks in front of a crowd.

Zizek precisely in pijamas.

Oh yes, I've just cleaned my whole apartment to this video

Here for my daily cup of coffee without cream.

Slavoj historical knowledge is extraordinary. He is a living breathing library, amazing.

Met him the other day. And rarely have I observed a man with a lovelier way around people he was exactly as nuts with everyone talking, posing and signing while Telling jokes. He made me So happy. And of course relating very offensive jokes. So refreshing ❤️❤️❤️

Zizek was so far ahead of the ironic alt-right movement that appeared four years after this lecture.

So warm, funny and able to develop keen insights based upon things like his young son making him repeatedly watch Kung Fu panda. Love Zizek. Philosophy shouldn't be completely esoteric, it can be found and applied in the most mundane of every day things.

AND SO ON!!!never thought three simple words would make me smile so much

I like how this is before he admitted that he likes Kung Fu Panda.

Žižek is greatest Philosophers right now, hello from Sarajevo

This dude is so smart that he's into his third language and is still more profound than I could attempt to be in my first

Two hours of brilliance.

We're so lucky to be here in the same universe as Slavoj; he makes times like these so much more tolerable.

"Moral absolutes can open up the space of freedom" what a refreshing take

In relation to his comments on the grey eminence, I am reminded of the account of Richelieu and how he came to match his various emissaries to the tasks he wanted to accomplish. The story is that he would lead his various potential new employees into room with a large table. On the one end of the table were pictures of horrible things. On the other end were pictures of beautiful things. If the person in question went to look at the horrible images, he would not send them on missions that required that the do horrible things. If they went to the end of the table with the beautiful things, he would send them on the missions that required they do horrible things.

Zizek with his message - to completely fall into reality - highly reminds me of Alan Watts

The poets name is Paul Celan. He was a german-speaking jew from Rumania. He is best known for his poem "Todesfuge" (in english "death fugue") where the sentence "der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland" (Death is a master from Germany) comes from.

When describing Project X, saying "three nerds decide to organize a party", for some reason my first thought was a political party, lol. I know what the film is about, but I guess hearing it from him made it sound more serious in my head.

I found it. The book is North Korea: Another Country by Bruce Cumings.

I'm adding this man to my list of professional enigmas. Ofc there's his voice but he has such a way of wording things I've never seen before

Slavoj is a genius, always captivating

I’m surprised that I’m able to follow along,and I’m impressed that he’s made it so that semi literate apes like myself can follow along.

Žižek is alien! He has forgotten more knowledge than we ever have in my life.

What a Genius . What a wonderful human being.

"Falling fully into reality and suffering" zizeks buddhist ideology

There is no ethnic cleaning without poetry. What a sentence

One of the few online lectures I've finished. Great and profoundly interesting guy

I was mesmerized for complete 1 hour and 53 seconds. Love Žižek ❤️

This is the best introduction speech I've ever seen given for a speaker.

Thank You prof. Zizek for those perspectives.

Holy shit I love that talk, I've watched it multiple times and every time I get a little deeper. I don't see what point Zizek is getting at, but he does tell an awful lot of jokes.

When this guy talks my mind goes to eternal bliss. :)

can't believed I missed him doing a lecture a couple years back because I got my thursdays mixed up!

it's a pleasure to listen to Zizek.

Se expresa con una claridad magnífica, alucinante y cristalina!

He has anxiety issues, side effect of his mind jumping all over the place. His talent is a gift and a curse.

what an incredible gem of a human being

I love it that he talks about Medea. So few ppl even dare. wow. V good v v good lecture. TY for posting (and i'm not even done watching it all).

ABSOLUTE BRILLIANCE. Ticks n all!

this is the second talk of Zizek i hear, the first was him vs. Peterson and as a Bavarian iam astounded how often (in a Philosophical Manner) he talks about the 3. Reich, i never thought about it as an Philosophy rattern then an Ideology. i will look into that. Thanks Slavoj

This guy is so fascinating to listen to

Thank you Dr Slavoj Zizek, on Reality and Authentiicity, meaning and Buddhism.

Slavoj is like a created ruler on CK3 who has all the intelligence traits but to balance it out has all the madness ones 😂

*smiles*: It's pretty horrifying

Everything is a joke, until people expect you to laugh at your Mother's death.

Zizek drinking game: Drink every time he says "and so on and so on", tugs on his shirt, or touches his nose.

The point in the lecture where he says that throughout poetry it is posible to see a lead into a social movement remained me at this poem that say more or less “ Mexico I believe in you because you smell at tragedy , perhaps because you laughter too much , because you know that the laughter is the cover of a deepest sadness” So this relates also at the point that it was stablished here , that when a society had the capacity to laught at themselves in the self criticism of their politician and social believes is a healthy way to had a valve of pressure that relief that hostility perhaps that could easily fester without this efficient social mechanism .

One has to be extra crazy to try to debate this man. Zizek is an absolute madman in terms of gathering information about history, philosophy and human mind. I wonder who would really be able to debate him on a even level? The amount of references he makes, the shier variety of perspectives he unites as a person is, to my standart, unmatches. Please name me any nowadays thinkers that can withstand this. I'm interessted in learning new stuff!

A thousand great ideas or more? I’m really thankful for this talk.

Slavoj Zizek is a great entertainer

Finnally someone who can stand up and admit the human condition as i see it. Evil and beauty in all extremes coinciding in one person. Pity most ppl are scared of this truth

On buddhism and magic pills: I agree with Zizek that morality is not a part of achieving enlightenment. Troughout the years I've met many people who took a lot of psychedelic drugs, namely LSD and psylocibin mushrooms, and I've read a lot about historical figures who did so as well. With all of these experiences I can say one thing - achieving an ego death and observing the world through the lens of enlightenment did not switch the moral basis of anyone who took these drugs. What happened to all these people, is that it made them more radical in these moral values. By that i mean that people who were compasionate became compasionate to the point of believing that through giving eveyone these drugs we would achieve world peace, end of poverty and so on. But conservatives were an entirely different story - they were even more dedicated to their ideas. There weren't as many of conservatives who took those drugs as progressives of course, not today (although I've met some, and I can tell you that while not most radical politicaly speaking, they were the most radical in explanations why they were right, and the most sure of it, and actually most coherent), but historically I encourage you to look into Ernst Junger - a wehrmacht officer who invented the term psychonaut, the history of neonazis taking psychedelics and in these days Joe Rogan - a conservative who's known for taking DMT. Ego-death does not ensure you will be a good person. It allows you to reinforce your beliefs with a new argument, and a very strong one at that.

Perfect introduction.

I loved the introduction.

More like Slavoj V-neck hehehe

Slavoj Zizek is awesome.

Someone tell this man to watch the work of Ryan Murphy. He always follows the pattern of starting a show with subversive, satirical overtones. Yet over time, his shows always become what they were satirizing, unironically. And the reality is that they were always just that. The irony is a way of trojan horsing cynical viewers into becoming invested in something they think they don't like, but actually do.

Extraordinary lecture.

Not sure if this maps in psychoanalitic terms but I always saw a link between 'sentimentality' and extreme distanced 'violence' at least on a socio-cultural level. The excuse for the violence is the inner sentimental nature that values the object of sentimentality over the consequences of a distanced violence, (desensitized or whatever), or maybe a resensitivization of the that inner idealization drives the denial of external responsibility.

Interesting to note that the same scene from Bhagavad Gita was quoted by J. Robert Oppenheimer (17:00 or so).

He makes a lot of good points.

1:37:32 he finally gets Buddhism right about falling into the world per Kojin Karatani. Buddhism deals with ideology by referring to it as “views”, embraces ideology by modeling it as stages and offers different remedies for each stage until you are able to fall into the world.

loved hearing his take on wittgenstein

"Another experience which brought me a lot of hatred in my own country..." on kaže. Zašto, nije mi jasno. A nije prvi put da sam čula da u Sloveniji ima dosta kontroverze oko Žižeka i da ima dosta ljudi koji ga ne odobravaju, ili ga ne vole. I ovaj primjer, da nema pokolja bez poezije je fenomenalan, istina živa. Potrebno je idealizovati i ublažiti strahote koje se čine, stvoriti svojevrsnu psihološku distancu da bi se neke grozne stvari uradile. Ne shvatam, šta je tu sporno, i kome?

This was wonderful. The moderator was a jerk at the end, though, with his “this isn’t a democracy” comment. Plus, he looked impatient when Zizek was talking. Nobody should expect short answer from Zizek.

pure enjoyment on this side..thank you I am serious too

Nobody: Zizek: ...however, this is my link with Kong fu panda.

This is one of the best presentations of this great European philosopher. As he always confesses, as he did when he came and addressed a forum in Bombay, he is at his very best when discussing theory. In his facile system of referencing, professor Zizek casually brings in the thoughts of such disparate thinkers as Levinas and Lacan quite effortlessly, merging their positions seamlessly into his own presentation.

Watching this is the only safe and engaging way I can take in a human being. It keeps me patient and not wanting to kill myself from feeling disinterested and violently incredulous nearly all of the time.

I'm Glad that you are still studying Slavoj even though you despise him. Ive seen your comments on other videos of his.

Yes, he is right. You can be an ABSOLUTELY authentic Nazi, or an authentic rapist, or an authentic murderer. This is jarring because we only experience these people, for the most part, through media. They’re hyper real to the point where if you met one in real life, you might be disappointed. “Why aren’t you acting like Darth Vader?” Or like Michael Meyers or whatever your particular favorite might be

35:20 What I hear when he says this is " Don't sacrifice yourself for a higher cause, sacrifice yourself for no reason whatsoever." I'd rather not sacrifice myself at all nor sacrifice anyone to myself. Thank you very much.

1:11:20 Was impressed that about 8 years ago when this was posted he knew about Darpa's 4th Industrial Revolution goals to alter thought processes and belief systems (basically the entire ego of a person) through altering DNA.

Fell down an interesting UKposts rabbit hole here. Thanks for the video

Well that's what life is all about. Living and learning and discovering knew things you do not know. Meeting people outside your normal circle, people with different habits and behaviors and beliefs. People who do and act differently than yourself. I know the middle school child in all of us wants to make fun of anyone who acts weird or does things a little out of the norm. That's life too. I've met a few people with tics and they are not weird in any way, it's just an impulsive behavior.

To pay a lot of money to watch this old man talk about the movies he has seen - this is the true ideology.

this is just so legit. i love him

Made some good points. I agree with his idea (can't remember his actual words) that you can believe in something but your brain does it's best to ignore the belief if it doesn't agree with the reality it wants.

a calm lesson to the mind.

1. One of the most brilliant lectures I have ever heard. 2. The vicious comments, that seem to be trying to outdo one another (in banality) while imagining they have hit their mark, taught me something I needed to face and come to terms with.

He is pointing out that one can use the concept of the greater good to justify to ones conscience ones own evil actions.

"You need religion to make good people do bad things". Dude lost me on Gangnam Style then pulled me back with a Hitchslap.

i got a feeling hes gonna struggle now that we must avoid touching our faces.

he is super duper!

Thank you. Watching from Alaska.

Life changing thoughts slavoj

From my little knowledge of Tibetan Buddhism, I see a couple of problems with his critiques: 1- Buddhism does not start just with suffering, it starts with the ignorance of that suffering too, when you’re trapped in the eternal cycle of birth and death… 2-Bodisatva is not a fully enlightenment state. The compassion to the suffering of beings is the last link to this world.

Please can you enable transcripts! A marvellous talk.

So refreshing

16:05 According to "The Master Plan. Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust" by Heather Pringle (Hyperion, 2006) Himmler kept a copy of the Bhagavad Gita on his desk, he didn't carry it around. Makes more sense from a practical and symbolic point of view for Himmler's pet project Ahnenerbe.

I can't believe he just said Medea was his hero. I've been saying this for years. WOOT! Love you, Slavoj.

We are all addicts. The more we watch, the more we want. Now stop typing and learn something.

Quite bubbly Capt. Slavoj , if the master class is too be seen as the vessel Higher Learning the voyage name thence the greater the voyage the greater the navigator needed.

Breaking the waves -my favourite