Slavoj Žižek & Ash Sarkar - In conversation
Join the rockstar philosopher and revolutionary Slavoj Žižek for a 75th birthday celebration of his life and thought. In conversation with writer and broadcaster Ash Sarkar.
Together they will explore his spiritual as well as philosophical journey, exploring his reflections on and respect for Christian thought. And we’ll hear capture his thoughts on the state of the world and our prospects for the future. What does he think about AI, chatbots, and the other new technologies of our age? Is there hope left for humankind in an age of impending climate catastrophe? And what does quantum theory have to say about dialectical materialism?
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"I noticed with my Jewish friends, none of them believe in God, but God still gave them the land of Israel." - Slavoj Zizek. Long live Diogenes. Thank you Slavoj. You have made my life richer.
@greadion4
Ай бұрын
I could not say it better.
@Kid_Ikaris
Ай бұрын
Once you get the way Zizek is playing jester most of the time, his stuff becomes so much less dense and more fun. What a guy. Really. By Zeus.
@dt6822
29 күн бұрын
@@Kid_Ikaris He is very much as Diogenes was, and many of the Cynics
@Kid_Ikaris
29 күн бұрын
@@dt6822 did Diogenese ever write anything down?
Around the 19 minute mark it reminded me of this footnote that appears in a physics text book: "It could be avoided if equations could be written in three-dimensional arrays, but unfortunately publishers are as yet unable to provide such a service. A novelist, or the writer of any work for that matter, will have encountered a similar problem many times. Ideas are linked to one another in complicated patterns but in expressing them one is forced to string them out in a line, sentence by sentence." - Bryce DeWitt
@geoffreynhill2833
Ай бұрын
The line-by-line method of novelists only needs imaginative readers. That's all. 😉( Or do you want 3-D painters too? ) 🤔( Read my "Green Fire", IngramSpark, geoff nelson hill )🌈🦉
@Len124
Ай бұрын
That's so weird, I remember reading the exact footnote you're referring to; though I haven't thought about it since I first read it.
@lukedmoss
22 күн бұрын
Brilliant
I was happy to see Ash challenge him on some of his ideas. More to learn in their disagreements with each other rather than other interviewers who have no idea what he’s talking about and just nod along.
@bighomiegayass1917
Ай бұрын
I will mention Piers Morgan’s name here for no particular reason
@howtoappearincompletely9739
Ай бұрын
@@bighomiegayass1917 Drawing a parallel, or is there an interview between the two?
@dreamwolfnektovich1944
Ай бұрын
@@howtoappearincompletely9739 there was an interview recently. Among other things Zizek said he likes monarchy in a Hegelian kind of sense because a monarch should be a representation of the common people of the nation against the technocratic elite. But then he said that we can't do monarchy like the old days so the monarch should be powerless and maybe even determined by some kind of lottery system. And then Piers nodded along not realising Zizek just described a president. The whole interview was like that.
@kooshanjazayeri
Ай бұрын
the problem is as he said it in 2:02 he don't believe in development
@A1un9ine
29 күн бұрын
@@dreamwolfnektovich1944 The structure of your comment is so f'ing elite that you don't know who you're describing. Hats off to you Sir!
This is the best discussion/debate with Zizek that I've seen so far. I've never seen someone get him off his talking points like this. Ms. Sarkar knows the anecdotes he's about to tell (because we've all heard them anyway), and has probing follow-up questions to all of them. Usually when you have a high-profile "debate" with another public intellectual, rather than analyze and disagree with his individual points, they just use him as a launching point into one of their own prepared essays, and so it goes back and forth. This is the first time I've really seen him challenged on-stage by an intelligent person.
@citadelo5ricks
Ай бұрын
It was a fun interchange but instead of making points, she was making arguments that became personal, rather than about ideas. Disappointing. Nonetheless it allowed Zizek to go way off script. Lots to think about! My god he is funny, charming, amazing thinker in so many ways.
@mattyartell9575
Ай бұрын
@@citadelo5ricksFunny, I read this comment at the exact same time as Zizek called her a "filthy liberal"
@citadelo5ricks
Ай бұрын
@@mattyartell9575 he truly insults exactly as he said, a sort of endearment and signal of trust and friendship. I love it!
@jeff__w
Ай бұрын
“This is the best discussion/debate with Zizek that I've seen so far. I've never seen someone get him off his talking points like this.” Very true. It wasn’t a debate, really, anyway-it was, as the title of the video says, a conversation with some “confrontation” (in an intellectual sense) along the way.
@alexverdigris9939
25 күн бұрын
Have you seen his discussion with Will Self?
I have the biggest smile when I see for the last 15 years Zizek books on their place, in the library, laying there calmly. It will be sad to see a complete, final set... Let us hope that Zizek will also have his torrent with 99GB of videos with him just like the Hitch has. Old school civility and enlightened vulgarity of his would be a thing that I will long for the most in modern times :(
@w8rh8mmer
Ай бұрын
He will reach three digits. So many words unspoken yet.
@averayugen7802
Ай бұрын
@@w8rh8mmeras As long as he doesn't spit. I can't listen to him speaking with the waterworks.
@feqanhacibalayev6426
4 күн бұрын
are you reading them?
@tehdii
4 күн бұрын
@@feqanhacibalayev6426 I have read one whole and many fragments from others. I still need to grab the newest one :) There is only so much hours and I have come back to SF and the amount of authors is killing me :) I try to squeze some Zizek :)
Happy Birthday Zizek!!! Thanks for everything! :))
@garymelnyk7910
Ай бұрын
Nicely said. If you love this man you have a good heart!
Shout out to crowd for giving up their Q&A. This was wonderful & enjoyable.
Happy birthday Zizek! You mean a lot to us
@garymelnyk7910
Ай бұрын
Yes! He does.
@IvoMaropo
Ай бұрын
Absolutely. Without him, I'd actually be proud of myself as a Philosopher. Thanks Ziz!
“I think you do a really good job of saying the opposite thing to what you mean by yourself, and you don't need my help.” - Ash Sarkar to Slavoj Žižek
@fergusdunne8303
Ай бұрын
Line of the night. A lesson in incision.
Excellent talk. I will remember the name Ash Sarkar.
@farrider3339
Ай бұрын
As what ?
@finfan7
Ай бұрын
She's part of Novara Media, also available here on YT.
@jodawgsup
27 күн бұрын
@@farrider3339 And for what?
he's looking well for 75!
Wow ash is stunningly effective. Best interview of Slavoj I have ever heard. Great job!
This needed to be longer. I feel like they only really got into it around the 43-minute mark.
Nice to see zizek challenged like that, a good talk.
Very interesting, she was a good host and interlocutor. Wish we had longer.
total legend, and so on and so on...
Profesor Zizek is always interesting. One of the greatest intellectual of our time.❤❤
How can you hate this man! Happy birthday Slavoj 🌹
Long live Žižek! Happy birthday! ✊❤
We may have only a few years left with this man. May God bless him (in the atheist sense, or whatever, blah blah).
I like Ash but she flies close to saying that no one prominent can criticise cancel culture because it's always an example of a privileged victim complex. It means no one prominent can criticise it. It also forgets that it's the people who are not prominent who really suffer.
@simonnilsson5356
Ай бұрын
She seem so intelligent but has somehow (likely due to ego) not been able to free herself from wokeism or slave ideology as seen by her very tired and predictive take on cancel culture. Doesn’t these people see themselves from the outside? How in the world can they see themselves as avant garde?! The twisted thing is that this position will become avant garde within ten years. Then of course, these people’s moral compass will have been recalibrated according to the new moral paradigm and feminine dogma.
@farrider3339
Ай бұрын
I fully agree to both of You. She is ridiculous and a true pseudo intellectual offering empty phrases only. No space for real thinking. Her brain is mostly concerned with growing hair 😊
When Zizek talks about his friends, I’m never sure whether he is talking about personal conversations or things he has read.
Happy birthday our Slavoj Zizek ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
He came into the room, basically called everyone an idiot and left. Love it 😂
@garymelnyk7910
Ай бұрын
Yep, that’s our man. But I always feel……..he means no harm.
@lilwater7358
Ай бұрын
@@garymelnyk7910 I think that depends on his position lol
@jeff__w
Ай бұрын
@@garymelnyk7910 “…he means no harm.” My take is that Slavoj Žižek is stating what is for him an obvious truth and, in that sense, he means no harm.
OMG I would DIE to see his interpretation of Percival
@infernoglass_
Ай бұрын
He speaks about Wagners Parsifal in a talk on KZread called "The Hegelian Wound".
The interviewer was so good to push back just enough against what Zizek said to keep the interview flowing and make it interesting but don't steal the spotlight. I loved it so much! 👍
I was there and it was grande…
He is in top Form! Happy birthday from your Munich friends
Congratulations! I know we have had many fierce battles, but you know that I still regard you as one of the world's leading intellectuals today.
@howtoappearincompletely9739
Ай бұрын
Hmm...
Great bloke !
75 years old and doesn't miss a beat!
Dragi gospod Žižek.Zelo rada vas poslušam.Hvala za vaše intervencije.Bravo. Tole pa kot izziv.Mislim, da se motite, ko pravite, da človek naj ne išče po sebi, ker bo (šele?) takrat butnil v grdoto.Ravno nasprotno, ko se grdega v sebi najmanj zavedamo, je le to najbolj aktivno in destruktivno, menim. Zato je treba biti aktiven tako navznoter (ko res pogledamo grdemu v faco, je tu končno priložnost, da z njim tudi opravimo, prej je ni) IN navzven, v slednjem se strinjava.Če bi vsak sebe moralno malo bolj izzval, bi bil tudi ta svet boljši. Še enkrat hvala!
Thanks!
Happy Birthday Zizek
This is a real meeting of the mind.
Živo..thank you my friend and hope to meet you one day
Happy Birthday wishes, Zee! May the Universe "Phil" the day with Y0R heart's highest desire! 🍎 Apple for the teacher! 🍎
Slavoj is so cute in an innocent kind of way!!!😊❤️❤️
@joshtroufield
28 күн бұрын
youre wrong
thank you Slavoj and all of you for giving him some love!
Third! Also, happy birthday, Professor!
Happy birthday Zizek!
Well done, Ash Sarkar. Vse najboljše, Slavoj!! It's all in a name.
Love deprh of Zizek's morality ! Yes when we are deeply connected we laugh together at jokes about each other...this would be impossible when any deep harbour of prejudice is held.
I seem to remember Slavoj saying he used this tactic with his therapist.
@ElectricityTaster
Ай бұрын
This is also why he didn't eat any cake. You can't speak with your mouth full of cake.
Best Q&A ever 🎉
@howtoappearincompletely9739
Ай бұрын
No democracy!
The chemistry between these two is perfect
Happy Birthday. I LOVE u
I love you my Slavoj Zizek ❤
Slavoj looking great
Happy birthday Legend ♥️🐬
Pretty decent talk, not many new thoughts from Zizek that aren't already mentioned in much greater detail in his latest book (Freedom: A Disease Without Cure) or in prior conversations. Ash had a bit of an itchy trigger finger though, but testing Zizek on grounds of possibly being a self-victimizing 'cancel culture' whiner was at least a productive trial with an ultimately exonerating outcome. For a journalist dedicated to truth, it appears she did not find the truth she may have expected. He handled the pressure well; even the last gesture of humiliation with the cake and birthday music was overridden with Zizek's interminable talking.
Zizek looking at his two candles should be a meme format.
2024: Žižek speaking about the Grail
Why are these things always so short?
Happy Bday Slavoj!
I love this guy.
That sexy beast was looking amazing! And the interviewer was nice too!
He is really great!
Two modern day intellectual archetypes. This conversation is the tipping point
@nnnnsaakadamanas218
Ай бұрын
Around 30 mins in I found myself thinking: "Intellectually / analytically and especially conversationally speaking, Ash is a real match for Slavoj" - questions were totally incisive and sharp. Him goading you into counter attacking is ultimate sign of respect IMO - he would've rather discoursed with you than go to Q & A. Total credit to Ash's sharpness.
@nnnnsaakadamanas218
Ай бұрын
Hadn't even gotten to "Fuck them, their Q&A" yet LOL
It was not a scientist who questioned the Bohr horse shoe but a young journalist.
That ending with the cake was so awkward xD I love it.
big slav playing all the hits
What a duo!
Love how Ash knows how to pronounce consonants (judging from her education) but has made a calculated decision to not bother
Assumed he was about 20 years younger.
zizek rizzing on ash sarkar was not on my 2024 card
Happy birthday ! *sniff
good job ash!
The man is unique 😅
@garymelnyk7910
Ай бұрын
Like Blake. Like Emily Dickinson. Like Thelonious Monk. Like Howlin’ Wolf. Rave on Slavoy, rage against the machine.
Ash Sarkaris sooo impressive. So hard to handle Zizek interrupting every fucking time.
Žižek kralj!
Ash Sarkar is the best interviewer or Slavoj I’ve seen. Her humor and whit works great with him.
This was the best birthday present for Zizek: to be called a liberal, an elite and a fake victim.
What a bastard! He very much resembles my (rather intelligent) father who just passed away last Christmas, who was also very much a marxist. I guess he would have enjoyed a life of/in philosophy. Rather than his government job in VAT regulations for the Netherlands and EU (in the midst of all the Dutch liberal socialists). I like mister Žižek's sense/amount of humour. Just as cynical as my father's.
@coleabrahams9331
Ай бұрын
So your father is living vicariously through Žižek. Pretty cool.
58:23 it's not a Paradox! It's a dialectic!
In the west when we see outside countries exploiting fault lines of bigotry and prejudice, we cannot afford to blame the outsider and ignore the fault line. Similarly, when looking at African countries we can see minority groups from the USA exploiting fault lines of bigotry and prejudice, and again we shouldn't allow ourselves to blame the outsider and ignore the fault line. This, I think, is Zizek's point of Hegelian universalism, where we don't put ourselves in the position of the "lords" of Africa.
zizek watching the candles and wondering what to do is something else 😂
The god of high theory.
75 A.Ž
As a right wing free market capitalist, Zizek is my favorite filthy commie. I can't believe he is 75! I never would have guessed he was that old.
@totonow6955
Ай бұрын
When classical economist said free market, they meant free FROM rent. So who is filthy now? Wink.
@kassokilleri2ff
Ай бұрын
@@totonow6955 Who cares what they think? Free market people aren't based on classical economists.
Ash is my hero 🙌
I don't know if it's just me, but there's something off with Zizek. Maybe it's just old age.
@guven6350
5 күн бұрын
What is off? He is the most wild genius mind out there.
14:31 Well, what did you expect when you agreed to speak with Žižek? You can't interview him like you would a politician, expecting direct answers to your questions.
1:03:29
ab7:10!!! für Dr.: Geld ist nicht ein einfaches Ding, sondern ist das Resultat von unserem Verhalten bzw. IST unser Verhalten, das strukturiert ist durch Fetischismen, Begehren, soziale Strukturen, (Aber-)Glaube etc...
I really like Zizek a lot, but he doesn't half repeat himself. 😅 His anecdotes, I mean. I think I heard basically all of them before from other lectures.
Yep, time to think about graveyard real estate prices😂
If you go to a Žižek event and they say there’ll be a Q&A, you should expect there not to be one 😅😂
I do belice in bees, humming birds,river,ocean...,but omnipotente & $$$...In Gold we Trust,shit isn't It! Happy new free Palestine. Free Julian Assange. Better future Slavov...
She definitely kinda got him when he described how he's being cancelled and later pulled back and said he didn't want to portray himself as a victim.
As alway, Zizek remains a great intellectual and an exciting theorist without viable solutions to any current problems.
@farrider3339
Ай бұрын
"Philosophy has to ask the right questions." (Zizek)
@AppearDispairDisappear-xi1gt
23 күн бұрын
Not true. To think that reality can be treated as a simple problem, like a mathematical problem, is an error that Zizem teaches to correct.
*Capitalism’s court jester: Slavoj Žižek* by Gabriel Rockhill at *Monthly Review Online* (MR began publication in New York City in May 1949. The first issue featured the lead article “Why Socialism?” by Albert Einstein. From the beginning, Monthly Review spoke for a critical but spirited socialism, independent of any political organization.)
It is like watching two aware and opposing double agents criticize each other in a way that doesn't jeopardize their facades.
@kiloub
Ай бұрын
now I'm curious to see what type of content creators or public figures you listen to who aren't double agents?
@jacksonstenger
Ай бұрын
Good take
Happy birthday comrade! ❤️✊
Shleventy phleyth (phelm)
75 and the mofo seems to have retained everything he read during his life. I read a book and next year I barely remember what it was about.
slavoj doesnt understand houthis : )i agree with him that ,,its not only west vs the rest "and i agree with him bout iranian women and bout how leftists should mobilize first world workers too.BUT Houthis dont fight the west because of any cultural issues ,they are not even more socially conservative than their opponents (Saudis and literal al qaeda among them ..)they literally only fight against ,,neocolonialism "AND (and this is very important point)they show great example of interantional solidarity with other opressed nation (palestinians)and they actually show GREAT EXAMPLE OF UNIVERSALISM to whole the world but Slavoj from the reason i dont know ignores this ..They show how colonized and opressed nations should help each other.And they dont hurt common westerners-they only boycott purely the exports of weapons ,purely the military industrial complex.We should embrace them
"you are really dipping yourself a feelthy leeeberal". Hahahaha. An insult much to be feared.
Greatest philosopher of all time is Zizek
@Rayhuntter
Ай бұрын
get help.
@Stereotype23
Ай бұрын
@@Rayhuntter I think a more reasonable argument would be that he is one of the greatest contemporary philosophers.
@johnd2058
Ай бұрын
You do you, I say in our time.
@clydechristopher7797
Ай бұрын
I love Zizek, but I wouldn't glaze that hard. His contribution to with his readings of hegel are Extremely important tho.
@stal5143
Ай бұрын
Zizek would say it's hegel
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