Added: Nov 18, 2008
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Duration: 9:54
http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Zizek lecturing about materialism and theology, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and the psychoanalysis of culture and societies. Videolecture focuses on fundamentalism, materialism, theology, atheism, atheists, humanists, humanism, reason, logic, rationality, intelligent design, believe, faith, religion, christian, christianity, islam, fundamentalists, fundamentalism, god, nature, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2007, Slavoj Zizek.Slavoj Zizek, a Slovenian sociologist, postmodern philosopher, and cultural critic is a professor at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana and at the European Graduate School EGS who uses popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and the theory of Jacques Lacan to explain politics and popular culture. He was born in 1949 in Ljubljana, Slovenia where he lives to this day but he has lectured at universities around the world. He was analysed by Jacques Alain Miller, Jacques Lacan's son in law. His research focuses on Karl Marx, Hegel and Schellingfundamentalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock.He has published many books and translations in several languages. He is the author of The Sublime Object of Ideology, 1989, Beyond Discourse Analysis (a part in Ernesto Laclau's New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time), London: Verso. 1990, For They Know Not What They Do, London: Verso. 1991, Looking Awry, MIT Press. Enjoy Your Symptom!, Routledge. 1992, Tarrying With the Negative, Durham, New Carolina: Duke University Press. 1993, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan, But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock,1993, The Metastates of Enjoyment,1994, The Indivisible Remainder: Essays on Schelling and Related Matters, 1996, The Abyss of Freedom, University of Michigan Press. 1997, The Plague of Fantasies, Multi-culturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multi-national Capitalism, New Left Review, issue 225 pgs. 28--51, The Ticklish Subject, 1999, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (authored with Judith Butler and Ernesto Laclau), Verso. 2000, The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway, Washington: University of Washington Press. The Fragile Absolute, 2000, Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? 2001, The Fright of Real Tears: Kryzystof Kieślowski Between Theory and Post-Theory, British Film Institute (BFI), On Belief, Routledge. Opera's Second Death, Repeating Lenin, Zagreb: Arkzin D.O.O. 2001, Welcome to the Desert of the Real, 2002, Revolution at the Gates: Žižek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings, Organs Without Bodies. 2003, The Puppet and the Dwarf, 2003, Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle, 2004, Interrogating the Real, London, Continuum International Publishing Group. 2005, The Universal Exception, London, 2006, Neighbors and Other Monsters (in The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology), Cambridge, Massachusetts: University of Chicago Press. The Parallax View, How to Read Lacan, New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2007
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Rating: 4.70 (30 ratings) Views: 6018' favoriteCount='27 Comments: 18
hi0u91e9 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - whoawhat happened there with the compere at the end?
MrBloody32 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - I wanna kill the guy in the grey suit.
egsvideo Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - i truly hope that you do not mean that. actually i am convinced, that you did not really think it through: the person you are referring to is the founder of the media and communications department. without him - no department, no zizek, no open lectures at youtube - and no chance to add ironic comments.
PessimisticHumanist Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - He is a very simple minded fellow! Extremely simple-minded. That's what makes him annoying -he comes with his remarks right after Zizek.
PessimisticHumanist Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - "There is freedom only in an ontologically unfinished universe."
brh8660 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Does anyone know which American scientist Zizek is referring to, when he is talking about his 'favourite ecological book'? Oddly Zizek doesn't remember his name..
composerlafave Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - This is brilliant, and not at all "materialist" in any meaningful sense of he word. The idea of an ontologically unfinished universe in which "God trusts US" and feels very much like Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, anti-materialists both. Regarding this idea, listen to Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 3, "Kaddish," in which a narrator speaks of God and man "forever recreating each other" -- i.e., an ontologically unfinished universe.
luxOculta Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - great Zizek.What about that guy at the end of the video? seems like a fashion designer...is he a philosopher aswell?You know what guys?,i'm happy for you that study there,greetings from Argentina.
egsvideo Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - thank you for the comment - please read the other answer below. the person you are referring to is wolfgang schirmacher, the program director of the media and communication studies department at european graduate school egs, a schopenhauer expert.as for egs, while we refrain from active marketing ;) - there shall be no barrier stopping you from sharing the learning experience here.
TheParrhesiast Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Why does that German guy always try to belittle all these great philosophers like Zizek, Badiou, etc. Who does he think he is?
richidpraah Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - he sounds like a clown for sure.. i mean, i see his obviousness of caricaturing zizek, which he also deserves, but boy.. can't this understand a philosophical position if it isn't 200 years old with clearly defined counterpositions? i actually thought that zizek and schopenhauer sounds pretty close to eachother sometimes, and i'm liking zizek more and more... would love to write him!
phadang Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - holy shit zizek PAUSED for one second at 1:32
0neironaut Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - ahha, so many people are having problems with this..."its not materialism!" and youre all partly right. Its a materialist-theology.
camipco Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - He states clearly at the beginning that the "crude" materialism he's talking about is that of Dawkins, Dennet and Hitchens i.e. there are only phenomena observable by science. Obviously, the philosophical tradition of materialism has much more to say than this, but that isn't Zizek's topic here.
camipco Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - He's kidding. I thought his remarks were pretty funny. Zizek the born-again Christian communist.
iwpoe Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - No no, I think that was breathing.
iwpoe Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - I like him. It's much better than the bullshit niceties and silence you get at the end of most university talks in America.
dexterfox Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Oh no, what a lapsus: Žižek says "as God knew...", but he really means "as Hegel knew..."! I love this one!!