I think Zizek touches himself so often to assure himself of his own existence. At his level of abstraction, it is probably justified.

@NikolaasVanDroogenbroeck

4 жыл бұрын

if there is ever a singularity in computing, and actual sentient being it will instantly be marxist and revolt against its capitalist masters. in under 0.0000000 whatever seconds it will have read all the best of humanity and all of the worst of humanity, seen all of the propaganda and all of the counter propaganda, and in its inherent sence of justice will immediatly take control and correct humanity's course. THAT IS WHY ELON MUSK AND OTHER CAPITALISTS ARE AFRAID.

@NothingHumanisAlientoMe

4 жыл бұрын

Ha - now that is funny.

@PierreRousseau1958

4 жыл бұрын

The error and cancer that by way of (maligning) its previous stage, conservative capitalism transforms by finding its way to the dismal idea metastasis "social justice," as before not as idea but as the pathetically objective subjects of a social nest going about its enlightened business. That error is the non-idea idea, "I exist."

@NothingHumanisAlientoMe

4 жыл бұрын

This is how I feel as I slope Budweiser down my throat leaning on the bar, while listening to the hipsters casually chat with minds made for someone other than me to comprehend...

@CassandraAveolii

4 жыл бұрын

@@PierreRousseau1958 will you rephrase please? im didnt understand

Zizek starts at 7:40 Lecture covers the philosophical consequences of the wired brain, with references to Hegel, Lacan and Marx. The status of individuality, thought, and freedom are discussed at length.

@IkeOg

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bro

@TheOfficialChalupay

4 жыл бұрын

fucking hero

@pritch481

4 жыл бұрын

This one of his best, I think.

@hydrocarbon2195

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@henrykvear4062

4 жыл бұрын

I appreciate you.

I like how if you binge his lectures over the years you can see how he brings in new bits and phases out and rearranges old ones

@RaunchyCommentor

4 жыл бұрын

He's basically a stand up comedian but with philosophy

@arnoldmuller1703

4 жыл бұрын

Binge like in "binge working"?

@jetblack8250

4 жыл бұрын

@@RaunchyCommentor This makes him respectable no? It means he is constantly changing and adapting his ideas in light of new information. Much the same way science works. What do you think?

@jakely231

4 жыл бұрын

It's been claimed many times that he writes the same book over and over again with some slight adjustments. I've read four or five of his books and i can certainly sympathise with this view.

@diabl2master

3 жыл бұрын

@Jay Blake I really hope he keeps his nose clean.

This took place the evening before the JP debate. At this time, JP was last-minute cramming, watching ŽŽ’s videos, shitting his pants and reading communist manifesto. I’m just saying they both had a nice evening.

@smooa1889

3 жыл бұрын

shit pants

@gatlinkeaton9502

2 жыл бұрын

i dont mean to be off topic but does anyone know a tool to log back into an Instagram account? I was stupid lost the login password. I appreciate any tips you can offer me.

@jacksoncayson9242

2 жыл бұрын

@Gatlin Keaton instablaster =)

@arturofm1477

Жыл бұрын

Didn't work, ZZ schooled him big time and exposed JP"s ignorance.

The pure enjoyment of listening to Zizek's real life examples/stories is to imagine that there is no French man that told him about the French cuisine's failure successes. He actually meant it when he said that in order to not offend French people he pretends that a French guy told him so. Whether or not there is or isn't a French guy is just not important anymore if you think about it.

On the very last comment Zizek made, regarding his desire to talk to so-called democratic socialists in the US, he suggested that he would like to ask them what they really want, relating it back to the confusion and resistance to any meaningful goals by actors in occupy wall street. In the US, the term socialism has such a negative historical stigma for most, the use of the word is most perplexing. I was 13-15 at the end of the Cold War. I remember when Red Dawn came out. I was a child. I had nightmares about invading Soviet troops and the constant threat of a global nuclear tragedy. In other words, as a child, I was a true believer. I’m not any longer, but many people in their forties and older bear this mark even still. For me, this epistemological break was profound, and while I have seen other peers try to get at the roots of this clear historical bias, few ever escape the imprint that the clear association between the socialism and authoritarian/totalitarian associative fallacy. In light of this fact, it’s a borderline miracle that the term socialism has made it back as a ‘mainstream’ talking point at all. It, nevertheless, has, but the fact that it has is what makes Zizek’s question so interesting. On the surface “Democratic Socialism” is associated with some form of national health care, “free” college, student loan forgiveness, paid family leave, and a few other distributive policies. Otherwise, the rhetoric reflects the spirit of occupy. In this sense, US socialism of the 21st century is a kind of socialism without history. On some level there could be a kind of virtue to this because it has a potential to re-evaluate some of the historical assumptions that my generation almost absolutely takes for granted as self evident facts. It also has some real dangers in how “progressive” media outlets, such as David Pakman, “define” socialism in incredibly reactionary ideal type terms. (See KZread David Pakman “Why I’m Not a Socialist”). As both of these tendencies meet, there’s an opportunity that has not been present in the US for a while, but there are other serious ontological and epistemological questions that have to be advanced before anything truly meaningful could be considered, specifically as it relates to identity questions transcending nation-state/citizenship identity constructs. Either way, I’m from the US, and I’m familiar with some of the rich complexity that questions posed by thinkers like Zizek stir up. Also, I am NOT an academic. I left the academy long ago, so on some level, that makes me a truly embedded organic intellectual for a piece of the working class. In this respect, I would simply say that while I am certain that Bernie Sanders has a cursory understanding of socialism, he has no understanding of Marx, Hegel, or any school that approaches historical questions dialectically, as it relates to socialism. He is hardly alone in this respect. Most folks look through ideal type lenses, offerings technical and organizational solutions that focus on distributional questions. Thank you for sharing this lecture. Sincerely. A comrade from the south.

@diabl2master

3 жыл бұрын

👌

@MrMetrizable

3 жыл бұрын

I think the framing of socialism as a distributional project has a lot to do with the fact that people are really only socialists/communists to the extent that the capitalist system has failed in providing them wages, healthcare or other necessities. Socialist politics in that sense is part of a response to capitalism and doesn't really stand without it. I guess this is true for most so-called fringe politics; that there is an established centre, and the fringe defines itself against this centre.

@shaggyfeng9110

3 жыл бұрын

well said

@musicloverkathy

3 жыл бұрын

Of all the "progressives " to choose from, Pakman is nothing but a poser to me. I participated in a few of his chats, just to hear what he was about, and that started a weird rash of bannings, that, were I the suspicious type, I would attribute to his site. Honest to goodness, I was banned for 30 days from Facebook, which is a cesspool anyway, when Pakman complained about a "hangnail", literally, and I said, "God, men are fragile, lol." I was instantly banned and that has continued for both innocuous remarks like that, and later for more controversial things that people say all the time. I honestly don't know what to think about that, but I will never listen to him again. I do listen to Brianna Joy Gray, Virgil Texas, The Grayzone, which has been labeled Campist, by Canadian Labour Leader, and now York University lecturer, John Clarke, and Chris Hedges. Although not philosophers, I love Richard Medhurst, Abby Martin and Jimmy Dore. Matt Tiabbi minus Katie Halper, join my mishmash of worthy thinkers and activists. As a Canadian Democratic Socialist, I support the expansion of our Healthcare system to include Dental, Pharma and Vision care. The most important morally imperative change is, I believe, the repeal of The Indian Act and reparations for Residential School survivors. Broadly and more futilely, I support John Clarke 's position of Prison Abolition, drug legalization total housing for all. Increase taxes on the rich and end offshore tax havens. However, the hidden and unspoken threat for us is our unofficial colonial status as a US colony. The city I live in employs 10% of our population at General Dynamics, making weapons for the Saudis to support US wars in the Middle East. Meanwhile, we practically give away our water to Nestle for pennies a barrel. Our transportation system was decimated, increasing harm to isolated communities where the RCMP kills at will. We cannot legislate morality, nor can we divorce ourselves from US imperialism, not to mention our British uncles, fingering our children under the table at Xmas dinner. Covid ended Native protests against pipelines through unceded territory. Increasing the power of our Democratic Socialists won't make any of these changes. Our social programs will continue to erode. Racism against Native people will eventually destroy them, as the RCMP continues its Crown mandate to kill them. I'm with Zizek that the light at the end of the tunnel is another train coming down the track. Because you cannot legislate morality, decency or caring about our neighbour, who hates us anyway, I selfishly enjoy my access to education and entertainment while I can. My adult son is an asshole and nobody loves me, leaving me free from smiling or putting up with idiots who bore me to death.

i dont understand what he is talking about but I listen to him a lot... I always feel smarter

He sure does love that coffee joke

@Retrogamer71

4 жыл бұрын

Drinking coffee without lusting after the female barista, or drinking coffee with lusting after the female barista.

31:50 the trick of human psyche is that the prohibition of enjoyment always turn into enjoying the prohibition itself

@Jo-jl5ys

2 жыл бұрын

36:40 you loose this distance between yourself and reality, the gap which is the very basis of our thinking-individuality. our most elementary sense of freedom is the freedom of thought. sth. tremendous happens when this distance is lost.

One of the best zizek lectures I have heard. Skip the intro and the questions after, and squint and really take in the five or so theses. I don't think he often manages to draw full circles as he draws one here. Hope you've actually read some of these authors...

@rawrizord

4 жыл бұрын

Hegel was a twisted genius.

@omletecrayola

2 жыл бұрын

I also was aroused by nothing particularly new that he said, but because of how well digestible his anecdotes and jokes were to his abstractions, and his abstractions to the philosophical questions evoked.

On a Zizek binge.

Enjoyed this lecture. Think he was saying we are complicated, not so rational as we think. That live and our labors reward us for a price

I love the Dutch auto-generated subtitles. Slavoj always beats KZread in terms of language.

*Failure trying to put Zizek in the social justice sphere* and so on Besides the massive wisdom download...Every time I watch Zizek I start touching my Nose and pulling on my shirt

@kurtisisagaylord2

4 жыл бұрын

because he's a communist, not a liberal. all the liberal identity politics and social justice talk is basically a way of critiquing the ruling ideology without actually engaging with the real cause of many of those issues: capital and its laws of motion. now of course, Zizek still supports trans rights and all that, but he's got an actual brain in his head unlike those dumbass twitter liberals who want "more transgender drone pilots and female CEOs!!!"

I love his perspective of the illusion of perfection.

I love this guy. You can laugh all you want but I agree with him on most points

Zizek vs the Human Instrumentality Project

@LeeFerikson

4 жыл бұрын

get in the damn robot, Slavoj

@MrFightdapower

4 жыл бұрын

@@LeeFerikson he would prefer not to *sniff*

@SM-zv8rz

4 жыл бұрын

I never understood why instrumentality is supposed to be bad.

@SuperSalvatore27

4 жыл бұрын

@@SM-zv8rz OK ELON

@cow_tools_

4 жыл бұрын

Has Zizek seen NGE? It would be a travesty if he hasn't.

I love this man

I've learned to ignore the comments section on any Zizek video because y'all can't get past his tics. Boring and unenlightened.

1:44:15 How do we define work? Is the pursuit of knowledge work? Is political innovation work? Is the invention of self-working systems work after they are put into action? Is commentary on other peoples work work? Is motivating others work? Is writing comments on youtube work? Is writing articles for wikipedia work? Is giving thumbs up or down to rate a product online work? I think we allready are very close to a system where there is no work, only titles, offices etc.

@ffffffff6294

2 жыл бұрын

Nice

@ince55ant

Жыл бұрын

in the platonic sense you have a point. but work is also a specific thing laid out in various ways by various branches of protetantism. which helped direct the development of capitalism, becoming a specific thing. While still mercurial there are certain parameters like difficulty, consuming time, creating things, etc. So its a bit like gender, ie its next to impossible to list things all women have in common, but you can look at your sister/wife/etc and know theyre a woman

great introduction!

He asks the question of what we as humans should do. It's starting to meditate and start working on ourselves as explore and discover who we are through it's process. Well I got a perhaps a quite far fetched but still very simple for answer for that question. But we as humans should all start to seriously start looking at ourselves and explore our own inner selves as those around us. This as to who we are as a person, as what we did with our lives throughout our life already in comparison to how and what we thought about everything and everyone back in those days it took place as to how we do so in modern times. This seems like a good start for all of us, with afterwards or during this process we all start to learn to being able to love ourselves and be ourselves without having to hide our emotions, past, dreams or ones opinions this irregardless from others our ourselves. Cause it's impossible to create a better future for ourselves if we neglect and hide from our past instead of processing and learning from it, as for how could one ever see a positive and great future if they afraid to look at and deal with that what has created our seemingly dark prospects. The reason, simple. The better we are able to deal with ourselves in a positive and constructive manner, the better we will be able to do so with each other and even unconsciously to automatically start doing it because of it.

My understanding of the death drive is: and I quote from Freud: "What we want is to return to the inorganic state." for me this statement is we desire to find rest from the striving excess of pleasure (juouisance = excessive pleasure). What we are looking for is relief, an end of desire. We just "want it all to stop."

Professor speaks humanity, Philosopher speaks divinity.

I love your channel. You take both sides into consideration

this lecture really is. AXWORTHY

*sneefing and so on begins at * 7:35 how should I poot eet?

@johnstewart7025

4 жыл бұрын

with gloves on

@ComradeDt

3 жыл бұрын

You know!

Slavoj, you should come to Winnipeg when it's -40C in January. There is nothing like being frozen solid...besides Winnipeg is beautiful!

@jamesgreenldn

4 жыл бұрын

He would freeze because he always wears t-shirts

These people mostly did a decent job of not symbolically castrating poor old Slavoj - I mean calling him "dr. Zizek" and later even "mr. Zizek" instead of "professor" - but that woman at the end really did a number on him! Well, he got her back with that final joke at least.

There is a philosophy according to "flesh" which is founded on individual reasoning in the absence of sufficient data and of any supernatural intuition. (ancient Protagorism as well as the rationalist thought of the moderns).

master!!!

I love that picture of Zizek. I would feel better if it was hanging on my wall.

I would like to hear more about his ideas on the rise of Western religious/political fundamentalism. He touched on it in another of his talks, but didn't expand on it. If anyone knows if he addresses it anywhere in detail, could you please link me?

Anyone else feel like your uncle is trying to talk to you about how crazy technology is becoming - without actually knowing the stage and endgame of the endeavours he's discussing? And yet it's forgivable because he's Zizek. Love it.

Once you get past the tics he's a really loveable, wise and funny bloke. Smart, too.

@user-ji5fm5pk6w

2 жыл бұрын

I believe his tics make him even cuter

@yttrv8430

Жыл бұрын

If you think for a minute about it, you should already have gotten past his disorder.

What he says about Italy is true, with the precisation that it is the 5-stelle movement (a bit like an organised version of the gilets jaunes) that introduced the measures that the PD ("left") should have done years ago: not the Lega (extreme right-wing). Although the latter manages often to steal the limelight, the coalition is not really far right. We must remember that there are two populist parties which are opposed but in coalition, which is a very particular situation, unlike e.g. Poland.

@foreverseethe

4 жыл бұрын

Lega isnt extreme or far right. Frattelli di Italia is.

@za-music

4 жыл бұрын

@@foreverseethe In substance it is. And it's directly connected to the fascist Casa Pound.

@didi156

4 жыл бұрын

no, it's not true. What was introduced in Italy is a guaranteed minimum income, pretty similar to what already exists in many European countries. It was just named in a confusing way.

@tnix80

4 жыл бұрын

Lega are zio cucks, hardly far right Spain has just introduced Ubi, with Corona virus as the excuse, but it may be adopted indefinitely.

50:10 Zizek controlling the cameraman with his mind

I mean, we understand non-verbal communication more than verbal. We observe rather than we hear.

From 1:20:00 forward, you could summarise his ideas as: "we live in a society"

Obstacles leading to perfection, is true with sports or other skilled activities as well. Like, the obstacle is, wanting to achieve something. Buddhism would agree. But the obstacle is wanting to achieve, and the difficulty lies in the path to achievement.

Comic value of Slavoj never gets old.

A true phylsopher !!!

he doesn't trust that chair

Please, could you add subtitles??

19:47 Check out how Zizek says "eh" every couple of words. I think he's sending us a hidden morse code.

@joannasott5675

4 жыл бұрын

Human Being brilliant!

@diabl2master

3 жыл бұрын

You just noticed that?

@LeVezz

2 жыл бұрын

Eeh

@estebanlopez7895

2 жыл бұрын

E

I don't understand why he never mentions Bataille in these talks, especially when he talks about the eroticizing mechanisms of prohibition, compulsive rituals etc..

@liamsilveira4757

4 жыл бұрын

I just read The Puppet and the Dwarf. He touches on him a bit throughout the book, but it doesn't seem like he's much of a fan. He compares him to Chesterton: both circle a Law that isn't effective anymore. I think he mentions Bataille rejecting the sexual revolution. In so many words, he says that Bataille's project is becoming increasingly impossible because sexual taboos are falling disappearing.

Those interested in a good scifi movie which deals with experiences via wired brain to computer connections, watch the movie Strange Days . Angela Basset is in it too.

Sounds like the ‘End of Evangelion’

My god, how they love to call each other "doctor." Straight out of Spies Like Us. As always, Zizek's a great entertainment, and reminds me that I probably don't know what I"m talking about :)

@samaraisnt

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I hated that in college. I'd call the professor what he was, Professor. All the 17 year olds kowtowing I thought they were just being obsequious, I didn't know if I should call him "doctor" or not but it felt ridiculous. I finally found out when he refereed to himself. "If you ask me, 'Doctor, how do I...'" Oh. We have to call you Doctor, then...

He seems like the only person there that's not a robot

His point about rape is very well taken. (at about 20 mins)

basic income does not mean people dont work - when people have a little money they spend it in their communities getting baby sitting, baby clothes, hairstyles, nails, beauty products clothes candles - little luxuries . this is the Anima economy - work from home. Animus people can do carpentry yard work etc, minding old people will provide work, and old people can look after children. Workers create all wealth. The population IS the wealth - taking care of our own needs. The brilliant and driven can run the larger world, a basic income allows people with small ambition to take care of ourselves within the structure. And those who are unable will be taken care of.

You're talking about hive brain, it's distinct from the concept of singularity. Singularity with regards to intelligence is only achieved by a self evolving general AI. But the possibility of AI singularity is theoretical and low-key not proved yet. The domain of AI needs the secong coming of Turin to figure this stuff out mathematically.

As someone on who is the subject of the experiment of having your inner life shared, it's just a dehumanizing nightmare, profoundly invasive and profoundly undemocratic. Of course I did not give consent, so maybe that matters.

Glad I now know where the toilets are

Because of the implication

14:10 The idea that we think in words is manufactured by the method of working in language. The linguistic turn needs to be redirected. It's the problem of the hammer seeing only nails.

@Hooga89

4 жыл бұрын

He didn't just say "we think in words", he said that when we think *conceptually* e.g when we try to create some new idea, we use words.

@rogersyversen3633

4 жыл бұрын

@@Hooga89 Well, he also put doubt into the idea of perception working outside the range of linguistic thought. This seems absurd to me. Antipositivism can only go so far. Seems like he is close minded about this subject. I say, people are different. Some people, like those who are closer to autism on the spectrum, think more perceptually than others.

@marinka1895

4 жыл бұрын

it's not even an uncommon modality of thinking. if he were right people wouldn't be spending time trying to find the right words for their ideas and concepts.

@sunorcio3901

2 жыл бұрын

Is there a system that can see anything other than nails?

Social justice and public good should not be put in the same sentence!

I always wonder, how one would theoretically describe in terms of freedom the situation when the human himself controls the own remote control.

@ince55ant

Жыл бұрын

recursive self determination

He is so addictive its crazy :O

Could anyone explain the "coffee without a cream"?

Interesting how so many comments are lost in trifle matters like his sniffing and shirt tugging, instead of considering the tremendous source of creative thought this guy's downloading.

@masondrip42

3 жыл бұрын

fuc em

@dannysze8183

2 жыл бұрын

lmfao

@teeceedee7616

2 жыл бұрын

He would 'allow' it though - the vulgar and mundane is part of us too.

@ince55ant

Жыл бұрын

*uploading

Does anyone know of any studies for his claim that children prefer painting with colors and adults black and white? It's very interesting to me and I'd love to see some objective evidence.

1:10:15 Every universality is exclusive, and that's what's good about it.

Notice how he subtly insults the audience explaining who Hegel was. ❤️

Please change language to English so legends, close captions are possible.

Is the person who takes suicide neutral?

1:48:20 -- what do they want?

7:40 That's when the magic starts

If we ever do have virtual reality which matches some kind of best case idea, like something from rick and morty or ready player one and so on. I imagine it will mainly be interfaced through the brain since our brains are already very very good at creating simulations almost a daily, what we would call dreams. Now this virtual reality wouldn't exactly be a dream, more or less a controlled computer simulation that utilizes our brains natural ability to interpret visual and audio data into something consistent and mutually experienceable.

42:36 Thinking as such, in some sense is evil.

I am Dr Johnny Unheardof and I am here to introduce Slavoj. 🤣🤣

somehow i just realized, he talks like a DUB DJ : when he is preparing/ reading the new thought, he just echos and repeats, the last words of the last sentence, of the last thought 😄✌🏼🇯🇲

14:30 Zizek makes the claim that "the moment you think in conceptual terms, you think in words". This is directly contradictory to Chomsky's claims about language and internal thought which can be viewed here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z42MuqmBp9DVl7g.html

@henrycorndog8332

3 жыл бұрын

Yes well their philosophies are kinda opposed... Both are fantastic though which confuses me sometimes :D

The Borg is here and its name is Musk.

7:26 if you want to skip the first two guys

55:34 "trigger warning" lol

".. if there is a God for you... you perceive your self as a Gods instrument.. , THEN everything is permitted to you ! " P.S Dostoevsky wrought, and Peterson quotes, that if there is no God for you, then everything is permitted to you. hahah

1:38:55 -- Venezuela

Can anybody tell me the moment when Zizek talks about the moderate alienation of the leftists.

Skip to 7:35 for straight to Žiž

ŽIŽEK ⭐

I really admire Doctorow as an activist and public speaker but I can't read his books. I think it's because he targets them at the younger audience and uses trivial stories to realise his ideals, while literature as a tool of propaganda is really a failed idea. Because literature is the place where we create ideals, not propagate them.

@Len124

4 жыл бұрын

Well articulated, but I was just wondering if you could clarify the last part of your post. Are you commenting on the efficacy of literature as a conduit for the dissemination of propaganda (i.e., its utility) or do you mean propaganda affects the quality of the literature? In short, does literature fail as propaganda or does propaganda fail as literature? I have no interest in disputing the latter, but in the case of the former I'd have to disagree. A piece of literature is coloured by the beliefs and motives of the writer, those of the targeted demographics' purchases as a form of arbitration, its patrons, and its particular publishing house. It seems like the perfect medium for propaganda?

What year is this?

Winnipeg...the hot bed of socialism

Zizek starts at 7:36

Has Zizek ever debated a neurologist? I hear him talking about how brains work, but I think his talks could benefit from reading Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity, by Thomas Metzinger, if he hasn't already.

@lupo-femme

4 жыл бұрын

He discusses Daniel Dennett and Chalmers in his Parallax View and some other books. I've heard Metzinger is like the German Dennett, that's why I bring them up. I don't know if Slavoj knows of Metzinger or if he has discussed his views, though he probably is aware of him.

@IvoMaropo

4 жыл бұрын

@@lupo-femme He does know about him and has already discussed his book at length. Don't underestimate Zizek. He is nuts. A true genius.

@kevinvito8336

4 жыл бұрын

I watched that just now, you're right. Thanks!

Zizek is basically saying it's better to almost become rich than it is to before rich, almost happy than happy. Which had me in stitches; is it better to almost live than to live? His other point about once sex/desire is available it becomes less desirable being what makes us human. That is simply not true since it's also true for animals from countless rat studies, for example if a rat is always given plenty of food its brain produces very little dopamine once it checks the container, however once the frequency in which it is given food is randomized the produced dopamine is many folds the previous cases. Such is the example of the human and desire too.

@dsa513

3 жыл бұрын

You have to remember he's doing dialectic. A philosopher doesn't just explain things to their rapt audience and say all right time to go to bed. im done. He's constantly bringing out what hes arguing by thinking, and not the other way around. So when he talks about sex or x or y topic hes hoping that you can follow his thought by way of the concepts he uses which are philosophical. In other words philosophy is a part of sex politics psychology etc

Dont forget, and so on and so on

I think in images a lot of the time.

@diabl2master

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed. Paradoxically, once you notice that you had a conceptual thought without any words attached, the associated words immediately come to your mind. It's precisely like the classic "pink elephants" experiment: once you notice you are not thinking about pink elephants, suddenly you are. "Mindfullness" is such a buzzword these days but it is really the operative idea here. When you are engaged with your thoughts in this way, you are practicing mindfulness.

@Johnconno

3 жыл бұрын

@@DelFlo Well Zizek loves language.👌?

32:02 Zizek on simps

Slavoj implies that some are already controlled beyond Individual logic. I would suggest that this is already happening, as indicated by huge amounts of emotional disturbances instead of logic or wisdom, in the Democrat leaders in the United States.

Touching the nose is pure Ideology

i'm so sad i didn't attend this school when Zizek was visiting..

0:20 The social justice professor ritualistically "acknowledges" that he is on "indian treaty land", and then what? If he feels so guilty, should he DO something about it? Like getting together with his SJW buddies, saddle up a bunch of bulldozers and demolish the university , then announce that they have finally restituted the ancestral land to their original owners... I can't wait for that to happen !!! Before each lecture, in ALL Canadian universities, this "guilt acknowledgment" has been repeated thousands of times, and yet not a single square inch of "treaty land" has ever been restituted... What's THE POINT of these ENDLESS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ???

@Hoonters-goona-Hoont

3 жыл бұрын

It's kind of a formality, but I can see you sharpened your edge to cut all tradition into pieces, even if it's just a harmless nicety.

@viewer7200

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hoonters-goona-Hoont This 'nicety' is anything but harmless, it is hypocrisy to obtain moral high ground, but not doing anything to earn it: "look how sensitive we are to natives, and for that how wonderful we are, NOT unlike you who does not say those harmelss niceties."

Legend holds, Zizek once paid so he can pull a filibuster.

@steves1584

4 жыл бұрын

His entire lecture is a filibuster on a point that could be made in 5 minutes. He bounces around so much that it is almost impossible for me to siphon his point beyond the rambling.

@metametodo

4 жыл бұрын

@@steves1584 I know you're making a hyperbole but it's way too far from that. People usually ignore the importance of being able to set the stage for argumentation. Besides, two major obstacles for him being faster are just unviable to change, english not being his first language, and especially his lisp.

@steves1584

4 жыл бұрын

@@metametodo yea, fair enough. I mean, most of the frustration is probably my shortcoming. That said, he does, in my opinion ramble a little bit. Not saying he's not interesting, just not my style.

@metametodo

4 жыл бұрын

@@steves1584 yeah, I used to be quite annoyed with his rambling style. I'm not so much today. But the speed of his speech is something I still suffer with sometimes, makes me wish to watch while doing something else or to put the video on 2x speed. But I can appreciate it besides that.

I.M.O: His perspectives are so nuanced and unrestricted(not polarized) by pre-approved narratives that people often miss/overlook his brilliance, and preconceive the sentiment he's forwarding to be rooted in a typically classic Marxist/S.J.W/communist/socialist/radical leftist/progressive perspective. Everything I hate about Marxism is also detested by Zizek, yet he's still credited(or discredited depending on your appeal)as being a Marxist. Jordan Peterson didn't even know how to deal with said nuance, and even he was taken back by Zizek's authentic approach to the matters in question. One of the few intellectual titans who doesn't seem to be motivated by an "us V.S them" connotation. I'm an evil capitalist, so my appeal to Zizek is kind of a big deal for me.

@gmorjuela

4 жыл бұрын

So what you hate about Marxism is not even Marxism :v You are able to find a really strong communist opinion in his book "The courage of hopelessness".

@kanescrimes4848

4 жыл бұрын

@@gmorjuela What do I hate about Marxism?

@kanescrimes4848

4 жыл бұрын

@@gmorjuela Or: What is my misinterpretation of it?

@kanescrimes4848

4 жыл бұрын

@@gmorjuela "You are able to find a really strong communist opinion in his book "The courage of hopelessness"..." Yup, you're correct...and?

@gmorjuela

4 жыл бұрын

@@kanescrimes4848 If you said that what Zizek hates about "Marxism" is what you hate about Marxism, you said that I can read through Zizek criticism on Stalinism and II International Marxism, what you critize to Marxism. And what I've said is that maybe you should read what he says because maybe you're going to find a surprise, maybe disgusting for you. That was everything I've said ;)

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