When I listen to him I feel like I have never had an insightful thought in my life.

Anyone else been on a Žižek binge lately?

"Can you imagine living in a shitty society where you have to all the time be engaged in some stupid local problems and participate and so on. I want to live in a society where an invisible network makes things function. I want to have peace to watch my shitty movies, to read books and so on. This is the true challenge. Everyday revolution."

I feel such pity for anyone tasked with keeping Zizek within a time limit

1:25:47 ultra rare "they" x9 combo

Zizek 8 years ago- we are entering an era where you won't fall in love and dedicate ourselves to another. We will all be like Judith Butler says and constantly reinvent ourselves and only have one night stands......Damn. He saw coming what people don't even realized has happened.

Pretty solid Zizek here, high quality content, fast shipping, would purchase again A+++++

I'm in love with Zizek is that weird

A mixture of comedy and intellectual discussion. gold

I learn english by Zizeks‘ leactures. The accent is so understandable for me and the other russians. Wow!

I can’t believe we were spared the different toilet analogy! What a time to be alive! What a wonderful day and age we live in!

The man, the myth, the legend.

Zizek talked at 1:24:00 about ww3 and he was spot on with the analysis and the situation we are in today. A true intellectual of our times.

Zizek never disappoints, old jokes, NEW links!

0:11 the little antics and cartoonish expressions :D

its like a treat to listen to him

"Without guilt there wouldn't be this movement" "Well, what have you achieved?" would've sufficed, but Zizek's answer was much more insightful of course

what a privilege to be able to listen to this Slovenian miser of a man who probably buys a new shirt just about as often as there's a leftist popular uprising in the world. Love you Zizek, fucking brilliant and hilarious man with invaluable and piercing insights on so many important current topics

Dr Purna Sen is the best note taker I've ever seen.

Zizek is Great because he destroys what you’re supposed to say. AWESOME!!!

"Capitalism today functions better without democracy."Slavoj Zizek. Welcome to Cyberpunk. I loved the "belief without believers also". I think it functions as long as it sells and develops a group identity that gives access to moral superiority without sacrifice (or with a very limited amount of it).

If Zizek was a stock I would buy it

Thanks and love for the interviewer ❤

This is so insightful and so humourous 😂 Thank you so much for sharing

i thought he was going to talk about literally dreams, but this is better

Tact and truth. Politeness and forthrightness. I’ve rarely been called tactful. We need to grab the bull by the horns, Slavoj.

love it . reminds me of korn and mey youth in sloevnia

Nice he referenced that "40/45 min" sketch

his points after 45:50 are pretty mind-blowing

The title of this video would be a pretty cool title for an album/song

Com amor de Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil.

8yrs ago he predicted a war which has already taken place for the reasons he guessed correctly, this is insane

48:00 is my favourite part of the talk

Hear ye, hear ye!

the man

Žižek ⭐

18:21 Brilliant Just over 2 minutes . . . And then it gets better . . .

1:23:28 pretty good prediction of current situation in Europe

We just love Slavoj. We know he hates it. That just makes us love him more.

Thank Lord Buddha almighty, Zizek was able by his informative and well aimed lecture to curb the audiences desparate need for trying to degrade the talk, by their infantile laughter, at any appearing sexual allusion into a comedy session. In the end there wasn't much left to laugh about. I first thought he was speaking at some puritanian USA university. But no, Sheik el BlaBla house is seated in London UK. Zizek ✊

@18.20 "Fidelity to pre-modern, so-called 'Asian' values is paradoxically the very feature that allows countries like China Singapore and India, to follow the path of capitalism even more radically than liberal Western countries." That moment when realise that under the clowning is the smartest guy on earth.

Everything is possible but nothing is being done

I love Zizek. I think that, if I learned something here, I could say that this isn't philosophy, as we consume in Western civilization, because I don't have to pretend that I'm having fun and amusement watching it. By the way, I guess the core of enlightenment is over. That's why Hegel, the last resistance to enlightenment, must be back.

Nice stand up, first time I see this comedian

1:29:44 "Now he´s narcissistically amused" :D :D

Oh man, big data has transformed for the worse since Slavoj's optimism here. People don't have to analyze it. They can just train neural networks on it & automatically pick out dissidents before even the dissidents realize where they're headed, or before they do anything to reveal their thoughts.

Kinda notable that you don’t have captions: I’d be happy to transcribe?

Double displacement, Yes!

and so on...

1:06 obscenity spotted

Zizek might be wrong about the last answer. Mass surveillence is highly automated. 1:32:00

I would love to see Slavoj Zizek debate Jordan Petersen.

15:40 dissing about Gandhi for those of you who are here for it

The Election story was really funny.

Relationship without real relationships,coffee without coffeein... I figure aut if i imagine to be an artist on the stage and make completely fun of myself for half of hour im sleeping better

Slavoj is not a psychoanalyst, he is a historian of the philosophy of psychoanalysis. He has commented in another talk that he has never followed through as an analysand in an analysis, and he does not conduct psychoanalysis. He is a philosopher and a historian.

I like zizek and he has some nuggets of information but he is all over the place. He raises all these seemingly random points but does not take them anywhere. He's like those comedians who raise a seemingly odd point and then say "what's that all about? " I like his view on religious beliefs though. 45.00

Zizek doesn't know that Prof. Sen is from same Brahminical communities who maintain objective as well as subjective caste inequalities

Starts at 4:00

his analysis on putin is so accurate with whats going on now

1:20:13 Could anybody tell me who is this person that zizek is referring to?

yeah yeah yeah, great: 4:10

40:57 - Žižek about belief without any believers.

Lol I lost it at Clinton sex. Zizek is a stand up philosopher

Dalits are a sixth of India's population - over 200 million

“Communists Leaders are the Best Capitalist Managers”

Dr. Purna is thickology at its puretht.

put this man in charge already

Even what to experience as pleasurable is taught to us by society ! *very correct !* This maybe even goes down to the preference of sweet over sour . And please don't think of horses and apes liking sweet. Or the mother's milk being sweet. Sweet in the first place is just an indicator of high energy food allowing fast muscular activities. And I'm saying this in a most liberal leninists way. Zizek convincing as always 🏆

I guess she noted down his dead mother joke at 35:20

4:06 Slavoj starts

7:55 temptations of the west, not "twilights of the west". Even influenced wrong search suggestions.

This is his funniest all right.

what is this for a book presentation without naming the book? what is the name of the new Zizek book?

Every woman likes the man she' s interested to change alot and even to go back to old state and the again to change for better.

i've searched this guy precisely zero times. Can't remember his name. Listen youtube, I've tried, but every time I think he's getting somewhere he turns a totally different direction and i can NEVER follow his train of thought completely. I assume he's coherent when he writes or else he wouldn't keep showing up in my recommended videos as someone who is apparently a highly respected thinker?? I have NEVER searched him and youtube is like no no no you MUST listen to Slubjov! Or whatever his name is. I honestly can't remember.

I really find his views thought provoking that being said, wouldn’t it be funny if the host had a face shield on 😅

Spanish subtitles, please...

2014!! Way ahead.

Why do people keep giving Zizek water at these events? He just ends up spraying it all on the microphone.

'they need to censur our dream'. Dont worry mister zizek, with the microchip and morgellon technology, they are already up to installing exactly that technologically!

Why is not possible subtitles, legends?

And thank you Martin Luther.

00:09 01:00

dey dey dey DEY dey dye dey

We need cooperation. Fascism is making life all about money. Its too cold. People need quality environments not warehouses for the poor.

dr sen tried her best to "mother" him to focus on the topic but zizek the kid prevailed....

OKi, not talking about the jokes or anything cause he seems to use them repetitively - what I think his point with the "accepting the cliche jokes" (such as the Montenegran one) is: People would RATHER accept anti-racist struggle as part of their own personal lives than as a part of some bullshit agenda of society = which is 100% correct TBH, the media despite making (and even forcing) the "ground to debate" is actually rejecting the little bit of will inside ourselves to accept and identify and live with differences Or shorter - to put it simply in a "conservative European "civilized" way" : street problems should be solved on the streets, institutional job is to keep state institutions clean and effective, and put the "street problems agenda" as a little bonus of "miracle happen" without anyone debating it Problem ofc. is - whenever a new "crew" of government is put on the new position the media either overcriticizes them or overpraises, either way it's not effective for the future lifestyle of the country. Certainly it's not good to not have defense of "absolute governmental power", BUT - with overcriticizing or overpraising the following happens: morale of people falls down rapidly - they're all like: "well everything is written already, we just elect who executes the script" Same with every social phenomenon there is like - racism, rapism, feminism, e.t.c., people are simply put "FED of it".. And that part is at least the healthy one, gives some hope for doing the "lazy moderate living" while being correct and not offending

THAT’S ideology

The Title of the Video: "The Need to Censor Our Dreams". Me: (fires a .12 gauge shotgun in the air) "You were saying something about censorship"?

14:50 I have enough spit on me. I better move over before he blows his nose in my jacket....

The eye rolls from the person beside him hahaha

Thank you Zizek for proving that God exists again and personal freedom is unstoppable. And that academics always fail.

39

22 minutes and not a word on dreams

15:28 what is Zizek talking about here? natulists? I cannot understand.

I think Slavoj likes Purna ❤wen marriage?

You won't get democratic socialism if you do not understand the purpose of taxation Žižek. Taxes are not for funding social programs dude. It's the other way around. No one can get money to pay their tax liability until the government net spends (more than they tax back) on social programs (or other things), at least not without going into debt to a bankster. In all nations for 6000 years it has been this way, the State is the monopoly currency issuer, and must spend before it can justly tax anyone. People used to understand this, but our generations under neoliberalism have (almost by nefarious design) forgotten. The purpose of the tax liability is to create a demand for the money, so the State can hire willing workers. Other than inflation control, and pigovian purposes, there are no other uses of taxation[*]. A currency issuing government does not tax us because it needs their own money back off us, it taxes us because it needs us to want their money. It is the tax _liability_ that drives the demand, not the tax payment that funds anything. A tax payment is just to enforce the tax liability so folks keep needing to earn money, hence will keep looking to sell their goods or labour to the State. To repeat: the State does not do this to get money (that it can endlessly create) from us, it does so to claim our _real resources_ for public sector purposes. It shreds the tax money if you pay in paper notes! The reason the State can spend more than it taxes back (running a continual deficit, forever, if need be for a growing population lets say) is because fiat money is just an accounting record, if it goes negative on a government ledger sheet nothing falls from the sky and no one's children will be held to ransom[**]. No gold supply is at risk, because we no longer operate a gold standard. Nothing is at risk. Not even real resources in principle; if claims on real resources get too high, prices rise due to consequent scarcity reducing purchasing power due to inflation, cooling off the claims on resources. (Moderate stable inflation is even healthy, it is a de facto tax on hoarded wealth and reduces the burden of past debt.) Once you understand this you will see that TINA and "capitalist realism" doom mongering is not going to last long, and democratic socialism is quite possible, although every year neoliberalism continues to walk the earth we, the workers, will continue suffering. Thatcher got everything completely wrong about monetary economics. There is no "other people's money". All money is a creation of the State. Bitcoin is not money for instance, it is a fictional commodity plus a private payments system. You cannot use Bitcoins to pay your public tax liability. As Keynes said, anything the government accepts as receipt for a tax liability is by definition "money", effectively a government IOU. And the government cannot run out of it's own IOU's. A currency issuing government can never be broke (not in it's own currency, but could be in debt in a foreign currency, so should never borrow foreign currency!), and can always pay bills due in it's own currency, forever, currency-sovereign government can never become insolvent, not ever, the leaders can think they are, but they never are. So they can ALWAYS pay teachers, pensioners, and healthcare workers etc salaries, forever, there is no financial operational constraint. The constraints are real resources: a government with infinite currency issuing capacity (i.e., most governments today outside the EU) can purchase anything for sale in their currency, but cannot hire more teacher than there are available teachers - a resource constraint, not a money constraint. [**]This is not so for a family or currency-user, for them a negative number on their ledger is a claim a bank has on their future income. One reason why governments should spend sufficiently so all people willing to work can find a job, which when the private sector is not hiring means all just and fair governments who are currency issuers should be running job guarantee programs, or simply hiring all the newly unemployed during a recession. [*] Local municipalities which are not currency issuers do tax us to get our money but only if their parent central government is not sufficiently funding them, the central government can always choose to fund local governments so that the local governments do not need to impose taxes to run basic social services.

Dear Mr. Zizek, I know that you don't like the "but" (😉) in the sentence "I'm not a racist but..." BUT (sic) if you don't allow the "but", how can you still think ? How it is possible to think about the problems caused by immigration (yes, there are problems) for example ? It's like a self-censorship of our thoughts by exacerbated and not necessarily shared guilt... Lovely woman, by the way 🙂

I haven't laughed this much since Robin Williams