Interview by Robert Rowland Smith in an exclusive How To Academy Event.
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Todd McGowan talks with Slavoj Zizek and Russell Sbriglia about Hegel as a political theorist in relation to Marx. They debate the extent to which Hegel can offer a paradigm for challenging capitalism, as well as discuss the most effective interpretations of Hegel
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Interview by Owen Jones on the Owen Jones youtube channel
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Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy
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Interview by the Chapo Trap House Podcast
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Red Scare chats with philosopher Slavoj Zizek about his recent books Pandemic! and Pandemic! 2
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Interview by Brian Wong for the Oxford Political Review
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Hegel’s 250th Anniversary: ‘Too late?’ | International Philosophical Conference in Ljubljana, September 7th – 9th, 2020
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The Department of German at NYU, the NYU Department of Comparative Literature, and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a discussion between Slavoj Žižek, Rebecca Comay, and Frank Ruda which will revolve around Comay and Ruda’s book The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing.
Deutsches Haus at NYU
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Interview by Dr. Robert Eikmeyer on the Museum Hegel-Haus facebook live stream
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Interview by Robert Rowland Smith for the How To Academy youtube channel
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In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of G.W.F. Hegel, Slavoj Žižek speaks to Shahidha Bari about the philosophical giant that changed our way of thinking about posthumanism.
Published by Intelligence Squared
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Pandemic! Protests! Panic! Moderated by Samo Burja.
Live streamed on the Big Think youtube channel
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Žižek has a virtual sit down with Patrick Bet-David on the Youtube live stream of Valuetainment
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Interview on the Michael Brooks Show Episode 135
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in conversation with Renata Ávila for the DiEM25 Live Stream
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Slavoj Žižeks first stage play “The Three Lives of Antigone” premiered in Germany at the FFT Düsseldorf, by the ensemble of the AGORA Theater. After one of the shows, the Slovenian philosopher spoke with the director Felix Ensslin about his work. Moderation: Kathrin Tiedemann.
Düsseldorf, Germany
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Interview by Jela Krečič
Malmö Stadtsbibliotek, Sweden
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Part 1 of the RISE OF NEW MASTERS Masterclass. Sadly, part 2 wasn’t recorded.
Birkbeck, University of London
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Speech and debate with Tyler Cowen at the The 2019 Holberg Debate
Bergen, Norway
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Interview by Michael Brooks. Published on The Michael Brooks Show Youtube Channel. Original Video
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Interview by Douglas Lain with commentary. Published on the Zero Books Youtube Channel Original Video
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As part of NYU Skirball Talks, the NYU Department of German and Deutsches Haus at NYU present Skirball Talks: Slavoj Žižek: “Disorder Under Heaven.”
New York, USA
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Žižek is a guest on the Chapo Trap House Podcast to discuss the 1994 Jim Carrey film “The Mask”
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Žižek dissects our current political and social climate, discussing everything from Jordan Peterson and sex ‘unicorns’ to Greta Thunberg and Chairman Mao. This is Žižek’s attempt to elucidate the major political issues of the day from a truly radical left position.
Institute for the Radical Imagination
New York, USA
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Interview by JOE on Youtube
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at the Bristol Festival of Ideas
Bristol, England
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hosted by the The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland
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Delivered at “Axworthy Distinguished Lecture Series on Social Justice and the Public Good” University of Winnipeg, Canada
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Slavoj Žižek, Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS. Saas-Fee, Switzerland. August 3rd, 2018. Public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought.
Saas-Fe, Switzerland
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Visit to Film and Television Studies Program at University of Vermont, Full talk title: “Hegel with Neuralink, Will our Immersion into Singularity Save Us from the Fall?”
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Part 2 of “Discord Under Heaven: A Masterclass with Slavoj Zizek”
Birkbeck, University of London
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Part 1 of “Discord Under Heaven: A Masterclass with Slavoj Zizek”
Birkbeck, University of London
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Debate between Peterson and Žižek. Both start with a 30 minute introduction, followed by a 10 minute reply, followed by discussion.
Sony Center Toronto, Canada
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Public lecture by Slavoj Žižek within the framework of the ICI’s core project “Tension/Spannung”
Berlin, Germany
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During the third Talk Europe Robert Pfaller, Slavoj Žižek, Peter Pilz & Judith Ransmayr had a discussion about the future of europe. Unfortunately, everybody except Žižek talked in german, so I had to cut them out. You can find the full debate here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udqlXkBV6fQ
Marxpalast, Vienna
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A conversation between Daniel Jackson and Slavoj Žižek, broadcast live on Twitch
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For his 70th birthday RT interviewed Slavoj Žižek
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Reality and Its Transcendental Supplement. Talk given at the conference “Parallax. The Dependence of Reality on Its Subjective Constitution” at the Munich School of Philosophy, Germany.
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“Fantasies of Capital: Alienation, Enjoyment, Psychoanalysis” — A Jnanapravaha Mumbai Conference.
Day 2 / Session 3
Mumbai, India
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New York Public Library, New York
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The NYU Department of German and Deutsches Haus at NYU present “The Fate of the Commons: A Trotskyite View” with Slavoj Žižek as part of NYU Skirball’s “On Your Marx” festival in celebration of Karl Marx’s 200th birthday.
Skirball Center for Performing Arts, New York
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In argentina, Zizek was interviewed about Perón, Trump and Chávez, sexuality and metoo.
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Žižek gives an online interview with Tim Foley, in support of Julian Assange. The event took place over two days (June 2nd and 3rd) and was originally streamed live by Suzi 3D
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The lecture was given as part of promotion of Žižek’s book with the same title – First as Tragedy, Then as Farce – analysing how the tragedy of September 11 moved US to the farcical 2008 financial crisis.
Cooper Union, New York
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Part 2 of the masterclass: Sex and the Failed Absolute
Is it possible for us, finite and mortal humans, to achieve some kind of contact with the Absolute?
Birkbeck, University of London
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Cambridge
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On ideology, politics, and Beckett
at Seton Hall University, New Jersey
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Part 1 of the masterclass: Sex and the Failed Absolute
Is it possible for us, finite and mortal humans, to achieve some kind of contact with the Absolute?
As far as I know the second session was not recorded. Please mail me if you know more!
Birkbeck, University of London
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at The European Graduate School / EGS
Saas-Fee, Switzerland
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This is a varied talk, including subjectivity, sex, robots and rights
Stuttgart, Germany
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The Birkbeck School of Law and The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
London, England
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Speech during the Heartland Festival via Heartland Podcast #15
Kvaerndrup, Denmark
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Live stream at the 2018 4th Biennial Zizek Studies Conference in Athens, GA
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School of Artistic Professions at the Círculo de Bellas Artes
Madrid, Spain
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Žižek’s last ‘Like a Thief in the Night’ masterclass. In this lecture, Žižek returns to the question of radical change, digitalisation of social space, political correctness and of course manners. Lecture was delivered at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities in London
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Lecture at Babylon in Berlin during LUBITSCH FROM BERLIN, the first international conference on Lubitsch in germany
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This lecture was the keynote at the Lack II conference organised at Colorado College, delivered at Celeste Theatre
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The talk was a part of the project “Central Eastern Europe. Transformation – Integration – Revolution“ in Warsaw
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In an interview with the german newspaper Neues Deutschland, Žižek talks about DDR-pornography, #metoo, the new blade runner movie and robots.
The first question he was asked is in german and was “You introduced the term disparities. Does Wolfgang Fritz Haug now have to rewrite his historical-critical dictionary of marxism?”
Maulwurf means mole
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Žižek appeared alongside Alenka Zupančič and Mladen Dolar to discuss the varying topics from philosophy and psychoanalysis to Trump and the Soviet Revolution
Deutsches Haus, New York University
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International conference “1917/2017. Revolutions, Communist Legacies and the Spectres of the Future” October 24-26.10.2017
European University at St. Petersburg
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The School of Law and the Birkbeck Institute of the Humanities are very pleased to announce this historic event, featuring two of Europe’s foremost intellectuals in conversation with each other on their recent work. While Slavoj Žižek is a regular presence at Birkbeck, this will be Jean-Claude Milner’s only second visit here and the first time that the two philosophers will address each other’s work in front of a public audience.
Birkbeck, University of London
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Masterclass: Masterclass: Transcendental Subjectivity, Sexual Difference, Brain Sciences Part 2. The two classes will examine how Lacan’s teaching enables us to grasp sexual difference as the constitutive feature of transcendental subjectivity, plus how recent advances in brain sciences continue to rely on transcendental presuppositions. The question to be discussed is: how will the new results of brain sciences, as well as the digitalization of our lives, affect subjectivity, especially in its political dimension?
Birkbeck, University of London
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Masterclass: Masterclass: Transcendental Subjectivity, Sexual Difference, Brain Sciences Part 1. The two classes will examine how Lacan’s teaching enables us to grasp sexual difference as the constitutive feature of transcendental subjectivity, plus how recent advances in brain sciences continue to rely on transcendental presuppositions. The question to be discussed is: how will the new results of brain sciences, as well as the digitalization of our lives, affect subjectivity, especially in its political dimension?
Birkbeck, University of London
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The philosopher Slavoj Zizek was interviewed in a London café in July 2017 by Anja Steinbauer and Katy Baker from Philosophy Now magazine. Edited transcript from Philosophy Now Issue 122 here: https://philosophynow.org/issues/122/Slavoj_Zizek
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We are often told that psychoanalysis is dead. Outdated scientifically, in that the Freudian model of the mind has been superseded by neurobiology; outdated clinically, where the talking cure has lost ground to drug treatment or behavioural therapy; outdated socially, where the idea that we are repressed by the norms of others is no longer stocked in today’s supermarket of free choices. But perhaps the moment of psychoanalysis has only just arrived.
Emmanuel Centre, London
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at Kyeonghee University, Seoul
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at Kyeonghee University, Seoul
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At The European Graduate School / EGS. Public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought Saas-Fee/Switzerland
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Slavoj Žižek insists on the analysis of contemporary fascism, focusing on the question of the reception of the totalitarian fascination of the NSK at a time when the resurgence of fascism (ideal of supremacy Racialism and exacerbated nationalism) seems to begin to shape the new ideological landscape of post-Brexit Europe and the refugee crisis
Raina Sofía Museum, Madrid
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Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid
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at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank, London
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The lecture took place at University of Ghent, Belgium organized by the Students and freethinkers collective as part of the TSG ‘s Antagonistic Festival.
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London
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Lecture during the Wiener Festwochen. AK Bildungszentrum, Vienna
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Part 2 of the Masterclass “You have to be stupid to see that’: Ideology in Daily Life”
Birkbeck, University of London
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Part 1 of the Masterclass “You have to be stupid to see that’: Ideology in Daily Life”
Birkbeck, University of London
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Princeton, New Jersey
(At 50:54 5 minutes of recording are missing)
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Prishtina, Kosova
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Prishtina, Kosova
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Reserach Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana
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Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Heidelberg
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University of Vermont
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Toronto City Hall Council Chamber, Toronto
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Deutsches Haus, University of New York
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Volksbühne Berlin
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Powell’s City of Book, Portland, Oregon
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Harvard Book Store, New York
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Lacanian Ink 21
Deitch Projects, New York
(the recording ends abruptly)
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At Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
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The second day of the opening of the Krytyka Polityczna in Łódź
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Artyčok, Prague
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Tilton Gallery, New York City
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Lecture during the conference “The Actuality of the Absolute: Hegel, Out Untimely Contemporary” (10-12.05.2013)
Birkbeck, University of London
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“Let us be realists and demand the impossible: Communism.”
Opera Theatre, Sydney, Australia
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American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
Montréal, Québec
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A conversation with Slavoj Žižek and Jake Matatyaou discussing state sovereignty, borders, migration, and global capital at SCI-Arc
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Lecture and Panel Discussion: “Whither Left?”
Town Hall, Kochi, Kochi Life 2010
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India Habitat Centre
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at the First Annual Navayana Lecture
Sarai-CSDC, Delhi
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Part 1 of “I’m watching you” at International Author’s Stage
The Slovenian star philosopher Slavoj Žižek in the first of two conversations on surveillance with interviewer Paul Holdengräber, director of Public Programs at the New York Public Library.
Copenhagen, Admiral Hotel
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“In 2011, we were witnessing (and participating) in a series of shattering events, from the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street movements, from the UK suburban protests to Breivik’s ideological madness. 2011 was thus the year of dreaming dangerously, in both directions: there were emancipatory dreams mobilizing protesters in New York, on Tahir Square, in London and Athens–and there were the obscure destructive dreams propelling Breivik and other racist populists all around Europe.
What is the meaning of these explosions? Do they have a common root?”
–Slavoj Žižek, Spring 2012
New York Public Library
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Slavoj Zizek argues that the neoliberalism died twice: first as a political doctrine in the tragedy of the attacks of 9/11; then its farcical collapse as an economic theory when the meltdown at the end of 2008 brought an end to the utopia of global market capitalism. Has this crisis now offered a vital opening for the left to seize the reins of politics and the state?
LSE, the London School of Economics and Political Science
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New York University
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Lecture by Slavoj Zizek on the Courage of Hopelessness and subsequent discussion with Slavoj Zizek and Marli Huijer on Respect.
G10 van de Economie en Filosophie, Amsterdam
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In this lecture, Žižek interrogates the religious impulse and delves further into his notion of of religious atheism as a response to techno-singularity. What is more, Žižek also announces his new theoretical book “The Incontinence of the Void” that is to be expected in Fall 2017
Lecture at UCLA, Los Angeles
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This talk considers the ways in which Marx’s notion of “surplus-value” bears on Jacques Lacan’s idea of a “surplus-enjoyment” which, rather than a simple stepping up of pleasure, designates an additional pleasure obtained by its very deferral. These insights, it will be shown, bear crucially on the relevance of Marx’s critique of political economy to our contemporary political moment.
Pomona College, Los Angeles
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In the Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) of Harman and his colleagues, the human subject is redefined according to the pressures of a “flat ontology” that treats all objects equally. In opposition to OOO, Žižek upholds the pivotal role of the subject as theorized in the tradition of the German philosophers Immanuel Kant, G.W. Hegel and F.W.J. Schelling and the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.
Slavoj Žižek and Graham Harman at SCI-Arc, Los Angeles
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In New York on the last day of an American tour, absorbing the demise of Yankee Stadium and maybe of Wall Street as we thought we knew it, Zizek’s talk is a blast-furnace but not a blur. The theme through all Zizek’s gags is that the financial meltdown marks a seriously dangerous moment — dangerous not least because, as in the interpretation of 9.11, the right wing is ready to impose a narrative. And the left wing is caught without a narrative or a theory. “Today is the time for theory,” he says. “Time to withdraw and think.”
A Radio Open Source Interview with Chris Lydon
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In a new book, Against the Double Blackmail, in response to Europe’s refugee crisis, philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that the left must shed its liberal taboos in favour of global, class solidarity.
At a Guardian Live event, Gary Younge sat down with Žižek to discuss the immigration crisis, the response of the liberal left, and the future for Europe.
This Guardian Live Event ook place on 19 April at the Emmanuel Centre, London
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At Birkbeck, University of London
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Part 3 of the Masterclass 23, 25 & 26.03.2016
While the global political and social situation is getting more and more explosive, emancipatory struggles are more and more hampered by ideological prejudices. This is why some ruthless clarifications are necessary.
Birkbeck, University of London
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Is pleasure a rotten idea, mired in negativity and lack, which should be abandoned in favor of a new concept of desire? Or is desire itself fundamentally a matter of lack, absence, and loss? This is one of the crucial issues dividing the work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan, two of the most formidable figures of postwar French thought.
Debate with Aaron Schuster and Maria Aristodemou
Birkbeck, University of London
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Public Lecture a the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
Birkbeck, University of London
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Part 3 of the Masterclass: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
In the entire span of his teaching, Lacan was engaged in an intense debate with philosophy and philosophers, from ancient Greek materialists to Plato, from Stoics to Thomas Acquinas, from Descartes to Spinoza, from Kant to Hegel, from Marx to Kierkegaard, from Heidegger to Kripke. It is through the reference to philosophers that Lacan deploys his fundamental concepts: transference through Plato, the Freudian subject through Descartes’s cogito, surplus-enjoyment through Marx’s surplus-value, anxiety and repetition through Kierkegaard, the ethics of psychoanalysis through Kant, etc.
Birkbeck, University of London
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Part 2 of the Masterclass: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
with a contribution from Frank Ruda
Birkbeck, University of London
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Lecture at the Munich School of Philosophy
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Event: Coming to Terms with Film-Philosophy
Toronto, Canada
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Zizeks latest book is Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences. Turning the Deleuzian terminology around he analyzes these organs without bodies in the work of Hitchcock and in films such as Fight Club, identifying a Deleuze closer to the Oedipus he would disavow.
Lecture at the Arcitecutural Association, London
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“God Without the Sacred: The Book of Job, The First Critique of Ideology” – a lecture by Slavoj Zizek at New York Public Library on November 9, 2010.
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Slavoj Zizek examines modern evil through a multitude of variations on a single motive: home is evil. For Zizek, evil is not primarily a property of persons but evil has to be defined in topological terms. Evil is a certain place. Evil is home.From an AA conference on Home, exploring the idea of ‘home’ as a domestic space and as the articulation of fundamental fantasies of space, memory and identity. The conference examined how the category Home operates as a point of political reference and mobilization, and considered the dangers of overinvestment in this category, both at the level of the city and in terms of fuelling political conflict.
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Slavoj Zizek is the guest on The Zero Squared Podcast hosted by Douglas Lain as they discuss the flak he’s received for a few of his Lacanian interventions into politics recently, Marx’s Labor Theory of Value, and his most current book Against the Double Blackmail.
Original Post: http://zero-books.net/blogs/zero/zero-squared-95-zizek-and-the-double-blackmail/
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Deutsches Haus at New York University and NYU German Department present Racial Enjoyments: What the Liberal Left Doesn’t Want to Hear – November 2016
Introduction by Avital Ronell
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“Idee des Kommunismus” – To Begin from The Beginning, or, How to get rid of Ghosts from the XXth Century
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, Berlin
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Philosophers Nigel Warburton and Slavoj Žižek join Jela Krečič to discuss her new novel, ‘None Like Her’, a hapless tale of the fruitless search for a perfect partner. The nature of love and marriage, as well as comedy are hot topics of discussion!
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Slavoj Žižek discusses his new book Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors: Against the Double Blackmail with Hari Kunzru at the Brooklyn Public Library
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As guest in the Think Again Podcast hosted byJason Gots, Zizek argues against liberal notions of tolerance
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The relationship of rage, rebellion and new power forms a kind of dialectic trias of revolutionary process.
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Part 1 of the Masterclass: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Although psychoanalysis is not philosophy, its subversive dimension is grounded in the fact that it is not simply a particular science or practice but has radical consequences for philosophy: psychoanalysis is a “no” to philosophy that is internal to it, i.e., psychoanalytic theory refers to a gap/antagonism which philosophy blurs but which simultaneously grounds philosophy (Heidegger called this gap ontological difference). Without this link to philosophy – more precisely, to the blind spot of philosophy, to what is “primordially repressed” in philosophy – psychoanalysis loses its subversive dimension and becomes just another ontic practice.
Birkbeck, University of London
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A public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought at the European Graduate School EGS, Saas-Fee/Switzerland and Valetta/Malta. 2016.
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The Red Zone visited Slavoj Žižek in his apartment in Ljubljana and asked about the current developments in the former Soviet Union, but the conversation soon went beyond Stalin and Putin. RFE/RL
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Žižek discusses the pitfalls of modern-day power with reference to the opera. Southbank Centre
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Slavoj Žižek joins TIFF to speak about philosophy, the Syrian refugee crisis in Europe, and how cinema can serve an important role in understanding contemporary cross-cultural conflict.
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Festival KEINE DISZIPLIN 2016, Gessnerallee Zürich
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14.06.2016 at University Zürich
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Slavoj Žižek @ Left Forum 2016
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Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours
In this talk Professor Žižek will talk about his new book, Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours. From within the safety of Europe Žižek argues we face two versions of ideological blackmail – open-door solidarity with refugees and drawbridge-minded protectionism. Both prolong the problem – so, confronted with this double blackmail, we find ourselves back at the great question: what is to be done? The refugee crisis offers to Europe an opportunity: a unique chance to redefine itself. The only way, argues Žižek, to truly get to the heart of one of the greatest and most urgent issues confronting Europe today is to insist on the global solidarity of the exploited and oppressed. Maybe such global solidarity is a utopia. But, he warns, if we don’t engage in it, then we are really lost. And we will deserve to be lost
The Forum for European Philosophy
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Part 2 of the Masterclass: Surplus-Value, Surplus-Enjoyment, Surplus-Knowledge
Jacques Lacan located the origin of his key notion of plus-de-jouir (surplus-enjoyment) in Marx’s notion of surplus-value, and it is worth exploring in detail the homology of the two notions, adding a third one, that of surplus-knowledge, a pseudo-knowledge in the guise of which our ignorance appears (“supreme” knowledge of God and other hidden forces, conspiracy theories, etc.). Such an analysis is crucial for resuscitating Marx’s critique of political economy, as well as for properly understanding today’s global capitalism and its ideological effects, up to fundamentalist violence
Birkbeck, University of London
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Part 1 of the Masterclass: Surplus-Value, Surplus-Enjoyment, Surplus-Knowledge
Jacques Lacan located the origin of his key notion of plus-de-jouir (surplus-enjoyment) in Marx’s notion of surplus-value, and it is worth exploring in detail the homology of the two notions, adding a third one, that of surplus-knowledge, a pseudo-knowledge in the guise of which our ignorance appears (“supreme” knowledge of God and other hidden forces, conspiracy theories, etc.). Such an analysis is crucial for resuscitating Marx’s critique of political economy, as well as for properly understanding today’s global capitalism and its ideological effects, up to fundamentalist violence
Birkbeck, University of London
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Hegelian Battles – Lecture 3: Hegel in Athens: what would Hegel have said about our predicament?The battle for Hegel goes on – new interpretations are emerging which perhaps pose an even greater threat to Hegel’s legacy than the usual rejections of Hegel. This series of lectures will provide a cognitive mapping of this twisted terrain, with the aim to redeem Hegel for the radical thought
Birkbeck, University of London
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Hegelian Battles – Lecture 2: What is Reconciliation? Hegel Against Schiller
The battle for Hegel goes on – new interpretations are emerging which perhaps pose an even greater threat to Hegel’s legacy than the usual rejections of Hegel. This series of lectures will provide a cognitive mapping of this twisted terrain, with the aim to redeem Hegel for the radical thought
Birkbeck, University of London
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Hegelian Battles – Lecture 1: Against Recognition: A Critique of the Liberal Reading of Hegel (Pippin, Brandom)
The battle for Hegel goes on – new interpretations are emerging which perhaps pose an even greater threat to Hegel’s legacy than the usual rejections of Hegel. This series of lectures will provide a cognitive mapping of this twisted terrain, with the aim to redeem Hegel for the radical thought
Birkback, University of London
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Sept 25, 2015 Istanbul. Conference organized by MonoKL and the Municipality of Kartal district
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This is an audio recording of an event held at 21. November 2015 in Berlin, where Slavoj Žižek and Jela Krečič Žižek spoke in a debate titled »The Birth of Comedy out of the Spirit of Despair«, moderated by Matthias Göritz
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Held on 21. November 2015 at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin. A continuation of the ‘Europe is Kaput. Long live Europe!’ panel with Yanis Varoufakis & Julian Assange
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Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg
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Recorded on 11 November 2014 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
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Philosopher Slavoj Žižek and former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange discuss Europe’s future. With the recent economic crisis in Greece, unprecedented challenges to centralised European policy, and the lack of consensus on the ongoing refugee crisis, many would agree that Europe faces its greatest ever predicament.
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Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Department of German at NYU present a talk by Slavoj Žižek who will speak on “Is Hegel Dead—Or Are We Dead in the Eyes of Hegel? A Hegelian View of the Present Age.”
Introduced by Avital Ronell, Professor of German and Comparative Literature at NYU
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Audio recording of Slavoj Žižek’s talks in Istanbul Modern Museum on 25th July 2015, organized by Encore Publishing
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Slavoj Žižek’s third lecture at the London Critical Theory Summer School. Birkbeck
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Slavoj Žižek’s second lecture at the London Critical Theory Summer School. Birkbeck
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First lecture from The London Critical Theory Summer School at Birkbeck with comments on Greece. Held on 6th July 2015
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Slavoj Žižek in the second of two conversations with the popular and charismatic interviewer Paul Holdengräber, director of Public Programs at the New York Public Library
The Royal Library, Copenhagen
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On May 5, 2015 the Slovenian political philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek gave a talk at the IWM, chaired by Sławomir Sierakowski, founder of the “Krytyka Polityczna” movement
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Zizek on Syriza at NYU
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Princeton University
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When a philosopher deals with another philosopher or philosophy, his or her stance is never the one of dialogue, but always the one of division, of drawing the line that separates truth from falsity – from Plato whose focus is the line that divides truth from mere opinion, up to Lenin obsessed with the line that separates materialism from idealism. The courses are an exercise in this art of delimination: their aim is to specify the contours of the dialectical-materialist notion of negativity by drawing a line that separates it from other forms of thought of negativity
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Princeton University
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Two experts on Joseph Stalin – one a Marxist philosopher, the other a historian (Stephen Kotkin) – come together to discuss the Soviet dictator’s origins, and his painful mark on history
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Slavoj Žižek held this lecture at Litteraturhuset in Oslo, Norway on December 12, 2014. It is part of a series of lectures on the topic of universalism, organized by Litteraturhuset. Other lecturers in the series include Wang Hui, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Binyavanga Wainaina, Gayatri Spivak and Tara Smith
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Deutsches Haus at New York University presents:
Slavoj Žižek: The Hegelian Wound
Friday, September 26th, 2014
at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Film Center at NYU
For Hegel, spirit is the wound of nature, it derails every natural balance, but it is at the same time spirit itself which heals its own wound. This Hegelian insight will be developed in its philosophical, theological, and political implications: why is the Fall a happy occurrence? How does permissiveness turn into oppression? Why does only the most brutal capitalist alienation open up the possibility for freedom?
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Conference by Slavoj Žižek at the Faculty of Fine Arts University of Porto FBAUP on “THE FREEDOM OF A FORCED CHOICE”
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Towards a Materialist Notion of Freedom: Neurosciences and Freedom
Birkbeck, University of London
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Towards a Materialist Notion of Freedom: Freedom – For Whom? To do What?
Birkbeck, University of London
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Žižek discusses his book by the same title ‘Event: A Philosophical Journey Through A Concept’, going through such notions as violence, fundamentalism, ideology, political correctness, freedom, and of course event.
From the Free Library of Philadelphia
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As a guest lecturer for the Kyung Hee University Lecture series, Slovene philosopher Slavoj Zizek visited Kyung Hee University on June 27.
Drawing a large audience of over three thousand, professor Ziezek, a world-renowned scholar in the field of political philosophy, addressed his vision for our civilization in a lecture entitled, “What is to be done for politics?” at the Grand Peace Hall
Seoul
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Clore Management Centre Birbeck, University London
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Part 2 of “I’m watching you” at International Author’s Stage
Zizek says he doesn’t care about surveillance. He simply believes that it’s not efficient and possible if government controlled secret police reads and analyze all our data. If you take it seriously He says that “it’s stupid computer program if experts are analyzing, 90% of people should be employed to analyze it”. Zizek also says that even if you do that “People are stupid they don’t threaten me, it’s like showing hegel’s logic to a cow”. Zizek also adds “All these state control can end only in a big confusion.”
Copenhagen, Admiral Hotel
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Debate with Srecko Horvat
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Discussion of Slavoj Zizek on various topics
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Three world renowned philosophers: Arthur Kroker, Brenda Longfellow and Slavoj Žižek consider the profound ecological and economic issues that confront the Planet in 2015. The symposium is inspired by the Wim Wenders film of the same title, Until the End of the World. The director’s cut will be screened after the last talk. The symposium is organized by Christine Davis, Janine Marchessault and Scott MacKenzie for the journal PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas. This intense symposium explores a shift from global consciousness to planetary awareness in a world of radical interdependencies where ecology must win out over political economy, where a history of the world must become a history of the Earth. The symposium explores the very concept and reality (ecology and economy) of end times. What does it mean to say that the world is ending? Has capitalism come to an end? What is left behind? The Symposium will be held in Toronto City Hall Council Chambers
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Discussion on Violence
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Slavoj Zizek talking about the theoretical richness of Lacan’s four discourses: the master’s discourse, the hysteric’s discourse, the university discourse, and the analyst’s discourse. What follows is a prolonged discussion of the various guises of the object small a in its imaginary, symbolic and real forms and its relevance for contemporary ideology critique. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe
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Hegel Lecture at the Dahlem Humanities Center (DHC) at Freie Universität Berlin. 31.03.2011
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Slavoj Žižek talking about object small a, digital civilization, desire, psychoanalysis, prosthetic extension, virtual reality, projection, science, language, universality, sexuality, in relation to the authors Freud, Lacan, Kierkegaard and Hegel. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe
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Masterclass – Lecture 3 – Communism: An Idea that Divides – Struggle Towards a New Master
Birkbeck, University of London
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Masterclass – Lecture 2 – Communism: An Idea that Divides – Ideology: The Terror of Permissive Biopolitics
Birkbeck, University of London
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Masterclass – Lecture 1 – Communism: An Idea that Divides – Economy: The Vicious Cycle of Capitalist Reproduction
Birkbeck, University of London
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Zizek on what goes on in the new techno digital development
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Birkbeck, University of London
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Sao Paolo
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Although most of the critiques to which my work was exposed in the last years are “so-called,” fast denunciations not worthy of a serious reply, some of them do at least raise pertinent questions : which, exactly, is the status of violence in social life, and how can one justify resort to it? Is in our societies a radical social change — not just a revolt but the imposition of a new order – objectively possible? What is materialism today, beyond the usual versions of deconstructionist discursive materialism, Deleuzian “new materialism,” and scientific naturalism? And, last but not least, what immanent role do jokes play in theory?
Birkbeck University, February 28, 2013
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One of the topics dealt with here is just how easily ecological disasters are incorporated into the capitalist “system”, thereby casting doubt on whether capitalism will naturally cease to exist as the result of the ecological crises it is criticized for causing. In this way, and much to the horror of Leftist doomsayers, capitalism is not just going to break on its own.
Another interesting thing he mentions in passing is how human waste has become so integrated into the functioning of the ecosystem that (as some ecologists suggest?) an imaginary, sudden removal of all human pollution could ITSELF be an ecological catastrophe. Something to think about for anti-capitalists, environmentalists and philosophers alike
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Zizek on the parallax and the function of ideology
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Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
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Zizek is given the floor to show of his polemic style and whirlwind-like performance. The Giant of Ljubljana is bombarded with clips of popular media images and quotes by modern-day thinkers revolving around four major issues: the economical crisis, environment, Afghanistan and the end of democracy. Zizek grabs the opportunity to ruthlessly criticize modern capitalism and to give his view on our common future
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A Frank Discussion On Everything
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Raising questions on ideology and its omnipresence in every day life – as he points out in his penetrating observations of quotidian pop culture, from the McCain campaign’s hijacking of the “change” banner, to the Dark Knight, to Kim Jong Il, to home intrusions by Israeli soldiers, to Kung Fu Panda – he makes it clear that we will always have a chicken, it is just a matter of being sincere about it. Cynicism is not a way out of the dilemma of the chicken, according to Žižek
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Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls “enlightened doomsaying,” has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis from within, arguing that it is our lopsided view of religion and reason that has set us on this course. In denial of our sacred origins and hubristically convinced of the powers of human reason, we cease to know our own limits: our disenchanted world leaves us defenseless against a headlong rush into the abyss of global warming, nuclear holocaust, and the other catastrophes that loom on our horizon. Reviving the religious anthropology of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Marcel Mauss and in dialogue with the work of René Girard, Dupuy shows that we must remember the world’s sacredness in order to keep human violence in check. A metaphysical and theological detective, he tracks the sacred in the very fields where human reason considers itself most free from everything it judges irrational: science, technology, economics, political and strategic thought. In making such claims, The Mark of the Sacred takes on religion bashers, secularists, and fundamentalists at once. Written by one of the deepest and most versatile thinkers of our time, it militates for a world where reason is no longer an enemy of faith
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The following is the full version of a lecture delivered by Slavoj Zizek on Architecture and Aesthetics in which he talks about a range of issues including, but not limited to, the meanings and implications of public spaces (what he says is the ‘privatized public spaces’), the invisible space (i.e., canalization referring to sewage system), the sanitatization of the city, ideology embedded in our everyday architecture (i.e., toilet), the notions of ‘more’ imbedded in ‘less’, etc. Even though this lecture is vague to understand in depth, it still holds some interesting concepts and ideas
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Žižek and Paul A. Taylor (author of Žižek and The Media) explore the difficulty of conveying philosophical ideas within today’s media.
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London
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Death of God theology is a predominately Christian theological movement, origination in the 1960’s in which God is posited as having ceased to exist, often at the crucifixion. It can also refer to a theology which includes a disbelief in traditional theism, especially in light of increasing secularism in parts of the West. The Death of God movement is sometimes technically referred to as “theothanatology,” deriving from the Greek theos (God) and thanatos (death)
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Zizek claims that we need to repeat Hegel (not return) and reinterpret Hegel as a dialectical materialist and not an idealist of absolute knowing. How can we use Hegel to traverse the ideological fantasy and act in accordance to the truth of an event? How do we overcome subservience to a market system that dictates our ethical discourse?
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The anxious expectation that nothing will happen, that capitalism will go on indefinitely, the desperate demand to do something, to revolutionize capitalism, is a fake. The will to revolutionary change emerges as an urge, as an “I cannot do it otherwise,” or it is worthless. With regard to Bernard Williams’s distinction between Ought and Must, an authentic revolution is by definition performed as a Must – it is not something we “ought to do” as an ideal we are striving for, but something we cannot but to, since we cannot do it otherwise. Which is why today’s worry of the Leftists that revolution will not occur, that global capitalism will just go on indefinitely, is false insofar as it turns revolution into a moral obligation, into something we ought to do while we fight the inertia of the capitalist present.
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The shock over the terrorist attacks in Paris in January 2015 inspired Žižek to write an essay on Islam and modernism. In it, he addresses the rupture between the Western world’s advocacy for tolerance and the fundamental hatred of Western liberalism within radical Islam. Žižek makes a plea for the West to insist on the legacy of the Enlightenment, with its strengths of criticism and self-reflection. He argues for a renaissance of individual autonomy and the sovereignty of the people.
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Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions the permissiveness of violence in philanthropy; in daring terms, he reflects on the powerful image and determination of contemporary terrorists.
Violence, Žižek states, takes three forms–subjective (crime, terror), objective (racism, hate-speech, discrimination), and systemic (the catastrophic effects of economic and political systems)–and often one form of violence blunts our ability to see the others, raising complicated questions.
Does the advent of capitalism and, indeed, civilization cause more violence than it prevents? Is there violence in the simple idea of “the neighbour”? And could the appropriate form of action against violence today simply be to contemplate, to think?
Beginning with these and other equally contemplative questions, Žižek discusses the inherent violence of globalization, capitalism, fundamentalism, and language, in a work that will confirm his standing as one of our most erudite and incendiary modern thinkers
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It was bound to end in disaster: two ideologues, one a communist and the other a neo-conservative, “do battle” over a skype link from a house in England where Assange is held under house arrest.
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