Being able to actually watch the audience being offended by Zizek makes his presentation even better.

@Gnolomweb

5 жыл бұрын

You're an evil person

@mauer594

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gnolomweb Precicely.

No irony lost, in the adjourning pre-roll to the next Zizek video I watched, the ad says, "If you purchase Belvedere Vodka, 50% of the profits go to fight Aids in Africa."

@dhruvpatel-lz6dw

6 жыл бұрын

Keith he has nothing to do with the vodka. He is the content creator not the provider

@hschan5976

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like false advertising. 50% is a huge margin

@pauloseara1638

3 жыл бұрын

The cost of production of that vodka is ridiculous low... it's an post capitalist vodka.

36:42 Is when he begins the "conclusion." Gotta love Zizek!

@Gnolomweb

5 жыл бұрын

No. He is low IQ and doesn't know how to think or talk properly (not referring to his speech impediment)

@Gnolomweb

3 жыл бұрын

@Андрей Бахарковскй u gay

@ganginfr4923

2 жыл бұрын

imagine believing in IQs

I know that this is all super serious but the microphone on the right lines up perfectly with the edge of my cursor. You have no idea how good that feels.

Capitalism CANNOT solve the actual problems that are jeopardizing human specie. It's good to hear somebody that advocates the inability of the system to solve problems, rather than somebody that proposes solutions within the capitalistic framework.

@-legacy-378

2 жыл бұрын

@D S you have no clue what ur talking about

Hilfe, ich bin süchtig nach Vorträgen von Slavoj Zizek!!!

The ending remark really hits the spot, that is the idea of liberal multi-culturalism, on the surface desiring the blend of all cultures, but unstated; that all should behave exactly the same.

Zizek is a genius! Thank you so much for the upload!

@icecreamforcrowhurst

2 жыл бұрын

He’s wired differently that’s for sure

The core problem of the capitalist economy model is the mental confusion of income and work (its a fossil of the abrahamistic religions). Work is not income and income isnt work (otherwise the slaves would have become the richest class on the planet). People need income, not jobs. The goal of economy is to free us from work. If you want to be busy you can do that every day without a boss telling you what to to do and when. If you dont have a goal in live then create it. Dont wait for institutions or the job market to give you orders. There is plenty of meaningful things to do.

@jonaskoelker

9 жыл бұрын

Alfred Mayer I agree with everything except "the capitalist economy model"-that is, a lot of people confuse having a job with having an income. My reading of an economics textbook and almost all economics lectures is that economists agree with you: working is paying a cost-giving up leisure time-in exchange for material wealth, either directly in the form of the fruits of your labor or what you buy with the money earned from selling your labor and its results. Note, though, that the things we all like, want or need-food, housing, ipads, rock concerts, a forest to take a walk in, whatever-are almost all the result of someone's labor. If none of us work, there will be (almost) no wealth. If we all work and we organize our efforts well, there will be plenty. If we all work but organize our efforts poorly, there will be a lot less. The debate between proponents of concentrated public versus dispersed private ownership in the means of production is thus, at least if we agree that we all want to be wealthy, mostly a debate about facts and not so much about values.

@MrPerry97

9 жыл бұрын

Alfred Mayer nice I like where you're coming from, best not to be an institutionalized robot who is an investment of a large company, self employment probably the least bad thing

@anishm00100

8 жыл бұрын

hi

@mattgilbert7347

6 жыл бұрын

BUT MUH INCENTIVES WOT WILL I DO WITHOUT MUH INCENTIVISATION Michelangelo Goes to the Dole Office "Oh, I have to do something? How about I study sculpture and then give people beautiful sculptures? "Aha, no, no you have to do something productive" "Er...can't I do "something productive" by being a Sculptor?" "Aha, well you can work and study to be an artist, yes I suppose so" "You mean art school?" "Yes, I suppose I do" "Isn't that expensive?" "And that's why you have to do something productive!" "But can't I just get books and talk to other sculptors and practice and learn like that?" "Yes, well, but then nobody will take you seriously! It's fine as a hobby I suppose" "But I just want to be a Sculptor. There are so many houses and apartments, can't I just live in one of those and sculpt?" "You'd be a squatter!" "No, *Sculptor* is the term" "LOOK, you HAVE to do PAID WORK!" "But there's so much wealth can't we share it? I don't mind doing whatever is needed if I can be a Sculptor as well" "BOLSHEVIK! KILL IT!!" And round and round we go.

@mattgilbert7347

6 жыл бұрын

Labour theory is flawed, tho.

A true genious! Im thankful that he is so productive in his intellectual endeavours.

@sfopera

Жыл бұрын

It's spelled "genius"

56:13 we live in a society

All of the FODI videos for 2011 are on the Sydney Opera House 'PLAY' site. I love the Jon Ronson + Jonathan Safran Foer talks, but they are all pretty interesting.

"Communism is the positive abolition of private property, of human self-alienation, and thus the real appropriation of human nature through and for man. It is, therefore, the return of man himself as a social, i.e., really human being, a complete and conscious return which assimilates all the wealth of previous development. Communism as a fully developed naturalism is humanism and as a fully developed humanism is naturalism. It is the definitive resolution of the antagonism between man and nature, and between man and man. It is the true solution of the conflict between existence and essence, between objectification and self-affirmation, between freedom and necessity, between individual and species. It is the solution of the riddle of history and knows itself to be this solution."

@crunch9876

9 жыл бұрын

Where is this from?

@raggledaggle721

9 жыл бұрын

the Economic and Philosophic manuscripts of 1844, Marx

@dec1ful

8 жыл бұрын

+Raggle Daggle Important distinction that gets libertarians confused: Private Property and Personal Property are different things. Us Communists wish to abolish private property (the inherently social tools of production and clas, i.e productive forces), as opposed to personal property (things the proletariat own). We stand guilty as charged in wanting to make private property communal.

@jasonmuniz8802

7 жыл бұрын

Nooters Yeah the whole "in communism you will have to share what you own" but last time I checked Uber is capitalist.

@tobiaszb

6 жыл бұрын

There is no comming back to nature! We can develop further, and have peaceful, well organised lifes, but it needs construction of "sunglasses" and painful way of taking them on.

Oh how nice! He wear his best pijama specialy for Sidney! :)

Zizek uses "changing the the subject" as an art form

People are so hostile to Communism and they don't realize that USSR was never communist, they fight against an ideology that has never been practiced on the global scale. If unemployed had an income that would motivate them to get up and benefit society.

@nonexistent1584

9 жыл бұрын

But it has to be practiced globally

@0206SVS

7 жыл бұрын

Non Existent And the reason why the USSR could never reach Communism was imperialism and the fact that they had to keep defending the revolution from external forces of reaction. This meant it was so easy for paranoid individuals such as Stalin to consolidate power as an individual because all the Bolsheviks were so worried about having to defend the revolution.

@J.A000

5 жыл бұрын

@@0206SVS hahahaha how cute

Its amazing that he seems like he is giving talks every week somewhere on the planet and it looks like he has a 1200 page book on Hegel coming out in a few months!

@Wisstihrwas

4 жыл бұрын

1200 paged book on hegel + dozens of presentation = cocaine habbit. But hey, he's pretty funny and hard working!

Crazy old bastard. He's brilliant!

the thing is with Zizek its all a bit vague

@xciellew

5 жыл бұрын

But it's also wonderful and fun!

Frankly I don't see why anyone would want to continue using the term Communism as it's association with Soviet Russia is so strong. You know you can promote a new kind of system without using that word right?

@aliciakalyani4533

5 жыл бұрын

lee comstock the problem lies in the connotation, not the word. Why make another name for the idea? Instead ppl need to understand the actual meaning of the word rather than change the word because of its associated ideas.

@chaveraoh

5 жыл бұрын

Communism is much worse than soviet Russia. He knows what he promotes. Only the naive fall for such as him. Watch Bezmenov.

@LibertarianLeninistRants

4 жыл бұрын

so it would still mean the same as communism, but we call it "example-ism"? wouldn't the others still call us "secret communists"? no no, we have to be honest with what we want and what we want has already a name: "Communism" As the manifesto says: "Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries? Two things result from this fact: I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power. II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself. To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London and sketched the following manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages. "

Guy at 1:38 looks like Trotsky

@Hardcoreforliife

4 жыл бұрын

Your saying that as if its not actually him

Thank you for finding the words to say what I feel.

@skumsters2323

4 жыл бұрын

and explain what I think but mostly ends up in chaos and gibberish.

@outsidemendham a true genius doesn't try to appear smart or clever. they just are

So is compassion, love and kindness. But first there is a need to stand firm.

No one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.

36:00 Well rent is actually profit, i.e. income without work.

@stochastic24

6 жыл бұрын

In the dichotomy of rent vs. profit profit is considered the difference between revenue and unit cost and implies that work goes into producing the good. Rent implies no substantial unit cost as is the case with Windows.

@lpgx9132

5 жыл бұрын

Please read about the distinction between nominal and non-nominal profit regarding Marx. And Marx's criticism of the classical liberal conception of profit.

Cameraman shooting at pretty intellectual girls and their bored handsome boyfriends.

@tastytherrien5106

3 жыл бұрын

@tyler t If you're being facetious, that's not really a great joke. If you are genuine, you are also wrong.

A certain part of the audience was going to murder him....

10:00 oh... my... god lol

@rudolfrocker4972

3 жыл бұрын

dont think of sex, dont think of sex... FUCK

@aman_insaan

2 жыл бұрын

45:16

Your rhetoric is stunning.

A liberal and a neocon want to con you and I into thinking there's a 'difference'.

communism lite , no gulags then .

@iamnotevenanumber3312

4 жыл бұрын

You a right! The gulags are underrated!

I find the title highly missleading =( Great content though =)

@omnisodium9869

7 жыл бұрын

It's what Zizek does he goes on a speaking tour and he'll only talk about the subject in a title on like the first few speeches he does of the tour, and then it just kind of tangents you're lucky if he even mentions the subject in his titles or even gets a single thought on it out lol

@Leftyotism

7 жыл бұрын

But I meant the KZread Title : >

I really wish the audio quality was better with this. The low audio quality makes understanding his already accented voice and complex line of thought that much more difficult. :/

Zizek is a modern-day Socrates.

Thanks for the critical ideological pair of sunglasses.

that's why he's a genius.

Pure feel good ideology. Love it.

@icecreamforcrowhurst

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is cathartic

Please share this video on the speaker's KZread channel.

The answer to most of our collective problems is simply to upgrade the election process to something more mathematically sophisticated, like Borda count, which gives more power to the voters and prevents political games.

I had chance to listen to his ideas and speeches in period from 1988 till 1992. Back then he was in for capitalism and everything else that he dislikes today. He even did attempt to become Slovenian president, but was during the election really unsuccessful. I don't really know what is his mayor problem, because back home he has a huge problem and not only at the university, but generally in media and daily life. He is not proud to be Slovene and looks at it as an "negative" coincidence.

Obviously none of you have read Hegel. You can criticize everything without reading anything. Parva sapientia regitur mundus

@waffleman-

4 жыл бұрын

Quam parva sapientia regitur mundus*

Do not waste your time with them. They do not read you, nor even try to do that. All they want is to scan, to yell, to, put it all in one word, conclude. Reality is for them just an occasion for subjective whim, the observation of the world is not even sketchy. Everything need to be modelled in order to confirm the current preconception. Anyway, nice post, you really succeeded in getting them angry ! :)

Not being sure what you mean by ' Neo liberal ' , I'm not aware of any major thinker who would dispute you're assertion . They simply say the states services should be held up for critical examination , in order to make them more effective . Not to turn them over to the tender mercies of the ' private sector ' .

did anyone see the funny contradiction.Title: "a new kind of communism". video description "video is the sole-property of the Sydney Festival of Dangerous Ideas."

"new kind" is important point, no problem idealist or realist, may be...

I have a strong liking towards many leftist theories. I don’t really call myself a specific form of Socialist though.

@outsidemendham exactly because he is a genius!

@featheon its another microphone, not sure why he's wearing one though.

3) Markets cannot give the answer to nowadays problems Bull: See the unbeliavable spreading of green energy (e.g. solar panels cost per Watt fell from 4 €/W to 0,5 €/W in 5 years and still going, just due to global market and capitalism)

6:12. BF only there for GF hahaha

genius no, highly intellectual, yes

... rejected the 'feel good' means forgetting that so many have done in the world beginning at semiotic level ... i'm no sure but i found so many wrong statement by Zizek ...

There were even two glasses of water on a little table!

You don't only sicken yourself, you also sicken uss, so please stop behaving in this way, and save at least some of uss the pain of you.

This is it... the bitter victory of surrealism.

Defeat Hydra: Bank of America, Chase, Citigroup & Wells Fargo.

my hero

Impossibility = Singularity 44m

Thank God he critiqued Levinas.

Government sucks, capitalism sucks, the free market sucks, humanity sucks, atheism sucks, religion sucks, and saying that everything sucks sucks, but Zizek can still make me laugh!

China was not a major player in the wars in the past century. That's why they've become so powerful

@chaveraoh

5 жыл бұрын

They have become powerful because they became capitalist in economy and socialist in social matters, which means killing opposition, harvesting organs from them, etc. They are powerful because they have hoarded useless, worthless American dollars and are now investing it worldwide to make the world collapse because the investment indebts poor and developing countries, so when the world economy collapses these debtors will fall prey to socialist globalists. May good God have mercy on us all, idiots, that allow this to happen.

I am white-hot opposed to command economies, diminishing the sanctity of the individual, and all but the most absolutely necessary forms of globalism...but I cannot deny that Zizek is one of the most important cultural observers of the world, and in my more iconoclastic moments I will yearn to chew upon the genuine challenges he presents.

I love all the cut-aways of sleeping Austalians

It's always like this. Someone has an idea to the benefit of let''s say our environment. The idea turns out to be a great one. At thsi moment commerce comes along and takes over. But this doesn't make the idea bad. It just shows how deception in capitalism works. The people who buy because of ideology, are the consumers who are not reasoning about buying stuff at all. Unfortunately this people are the majority. And as we know and history pooves the majority is always wrong with their decisions.

Do you really think that markets can give the answer to social inequality or global hunger?

How could he go on for nearly an hour without noticing a Cheez Doodle stuck in his beard?

The bigger picture you are looking for, keep looking. You are obviously missing it completely. While you're at it, watch The Corporation and read Confessions of an Economic Hitman. I lived communism too, "sonny."

Where did Marx write that when "general knowledge" becomes generalised as the source of profit that capitalism can no longer function? Zizek Refers to that in the video but no source.

@weebgrinder

2 жыл бұрын

It's called general intellect - look that up

@ceolandomhain298

Жыл бұрын

@@weebgrinder american virtual spotted in the wild! cool channel

Those who would eradicate others are ironically the only ones deserving of eradication.

As oppose to totalitarism desgise as egalitarianism?

Not entirely sure but it is likely 'Das Kapital'

Now I am off to watch the second part of Atlas Shrugged. Nothing cheers you up as watching a psycho "philosopher's" theories on the big screen.

You say suffered under communism" and yet you still will not say where and when. I do not say that I am better than anyone for my experiences and the sufferings of my family. But these experiences of my life have made me stronger and more attuned to those who call themselves "comrade" without any clue as to what they are really doing and saying. So, "Comrade Buka".... tell us all where and when have you "suffered under communism".

2:51 and we have nose grab 2:51 nose grab

...so is philosophy, i claim.

Zizek wears a suit and tie in bed.

I cant wait to see Tarantino's new movie, Django Unchained. Samuel L. Jackson plays a black character who reacts violently to blacks fighting against slavery.

Collectivist wealth redistribution guarantees one thing only, An Equal level of miserable poverty for all. Collectivism will produce mediocre results at best because it inspires the opposite of human beings primary motive - that is Incentive. If you can work 2 hours at your job or 12 hours at your job and get paid the exact same - what fool will work a full 12 hours? Capitalism works well because it rewards incentive to improve oneself by the products or service one offers to others.

Best comment ever.

After a while you begin to see the cracks in Slavoj; he also hides behind endless introspection thus crippling his responsibility. Just as he accuses the world of numbing its guilt through ideology; doesn't he numb his own share in our collective human suffering by his endless introspection and psychoanalysis. Here's what I say - he's right; we can't just drop a coin in the basket and fix the suffering in the world but we can reach out and 'do what one can' - walk away from the argument; go the extra mile - in his case stop investigating how he is being manipulated by ideology (as hopeless as buying expensive coffee to assuage ones debt to suffering) and do what one can!

@bombers7878

6 жыл бұрын

Make sure in doing what you can you feel good about it and entrench pre-existing structures. Don't EVER question them. All is well.....carry on.......

@aliciakalyani4533

5 жыл бұрын

Anogoya Dagaati the introspection would not be necessary if we didn’t live in a capitalist society

There is nothing unbeliavable in that- its still nothing in comparison to other resources. Global open market benefits only the most powerful and rich countries, the small and poor just become colonies that produce little of their oun as their economy is no mach for the developed ones and doesnt have a chance to develop to a competative level- history has countles such examples, like India and many others.

Not all geniuses are business men....

Not in Zizek! at least. Though I don't pretend to frequent Zizek's sleeping apparatuses.

His remark about recycling as a feel-good measure reminded me of this video about recycling in China: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aKGKk6eSZtrAeNI.html

20th century communism wasn’t a failure, but the greatest achievement of the working class in history. Stop repeating the bourgeois slanders, my „communist“ comrade Zizek. Where are your ideas on the economics and politics of communism and the way to it, socialism? Marxism-Leninism provides us with ideas and arguments of planned economy, dictatorship of the proletariat, soviets, a communist party, etc. What are you talking about when you talk about communism? What is it?

Are you sure? What are they?

what amazes me most are the women in the audience. where on earth do women like this even exist?

hahaha, good counter-argument. Now seriously, isn't it true what I said?

Democracy: The freedom to rant about your terrible squalid living conditions, about how bad the government is and about your inability to change anything despite representational government :-)

@MrDaleaaaa

10 жыл бұрын

i didnt say you insulted me i said you tried to insult me i would have to care what you think about me to get insulted

@TheHallucinati

10 жыл бұрын

MrDaleaaaa Hahaha. Your dishonesty is blatantly obvious even here. If you didn't at all care what others think of you or your comments, you wouldn't have answered their comment in the first place. Yet, instead you clearly attempted to clarify what you said earlier. Reminds me of this story about an estranged wife who drove 160 miles to tell her ex-husband that she doesn't give a damn how he feels about her LOL

@MrDaleaaaa

10 жыл бұрын

keep dreaming.but if you new me you would haven't ever questioned my honer and right a few words is hardly comparable to your story and i get a bit of fun out of telling commies off and using their mindless chants against them

@Almanich94

8 жыл бұрын

+MrDaleaaaa Please read an English book before you try getting into political arguments.

@tonegoober

7 жыл бұрын

Statecraft ≠ Democracy

43:02

all these funny shots of hipsters thinking to themselves "glasses look so fucking hot right now"

Name some, please.

The Blank Slate + Land of the Blind + Pol Pot

Is there a difference between being oppressed by Stalin or Coca Cola?

Because clothes defines one's mental abilities XD

Grab your attention

Zizek's big idea of providing the “new exploited” (structurally unemployed and unemployable) with a basic income while leaving commodity production in place is social democratic idealism. Until such time as the commodity form itself is overcome, these band aids will eventually become real material barriers, with the law of value continually reasserting itself (as happened with the New Deal in Amerikkka and other more robust social democratic forms of the past) until such time as the inner necessity of capitalism, a society based on the production of surplus value, undermines its own foundations as technology advances and the socially necessary labor time contained in a given commodity gets ever closer to zero. And if Zizek's plan is to rely upon the humanitarianism and good will our new feudal lords so that as this process takes place more and more of the reserve army will be put on the dole (undermining the very function of the reserve army) then he's living in an utterly fantastical realm. Zizek knows better than this how power works. Or at least he should know. It seems we still need to go back over some of the very basics with our new “communists”.

@MrDeicide1

9 жыл бұрын

He quoted that. Wasn't his idea. Rewind.

@mikeisapro

5 жыл бұрын

Yes he made reference to the idea, he's referred to it a number of times in his talks. I get the impression that he does in fact see problems with it, and he is not totally for it by any means, based on what I've heard him say about it in his various talks.

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he is genius all right! like so many other nuts Belongs to the mentalhouse!