Sidney and Slavoj is a perfect combo. Better combo than Slavoj has with the mic

Guys, this was clearly not intended as a serious debate or lecture, it's a pop culture show happy to remain at the surface. And that's fine. If you're looking for serious Zizek, read the Sublime Object of Ideology.

I’ve never seen anyone other than Sydney match zizek's energy so well.

Congrats for starting your YT channel with such a guest!

Amazing... Slavoj's wisdom continues to grow ..

@jodawgsup

Ай бұрын

wisdom 🤢

@misskwannie

24 күн бұрын

Ironic bc he’s talked about how wisdom is conformity

Good talk. Looking forward to reading the new book :)

thank you!

Well done Sydney. Thanks for the upload.

@adn6778

13 күн бұрын

U

I really want to talk to this man over a few bottles of rachiu. He's just the loveliest person.

Happy Birthday!!! Zizek must have been on good spirits because he was cursing more than usual. :) :) 😊😊😊

“This is the beginning of a beautiful hatred” 😂

Having the world's greatest living intellectual as your first guest is a very impressive feat.

@cockschelle3847

Ай бұрын

Id not put Zizek above Chomsky but sure

@ArchOrigin

Ай бұрын

Chomsky is a stiff ideologue

@IvoMaropo

Ай бұрын

​​​​​​​​​ You've got to be kidding. With all my respect to Chomsky, he is not even close to Zizek. The latter is a true madman who has published close to a hundred books on everything you can imagine. His knowledge of German Idealism alone already makes him more interesting than Chomsky could ever hope to be. Slavoj is a MADMAN. Believe me. I've been studying him since 2012. Most of Chomsky's books are quite boring (mostly about politics and linguistics). He's not even remotely close. I'd exchange Chomsky's entire oeuvre for Zizek's Less Than Nothing alone (or maybe even his Absolute Recoil). And I'm not even kidding. Literally. I still respect Chomsky though (it's just that Zizek is a lot more interesting as an intellectual). Even his personality is much more amusing than Chomsky's.

@jodawgsup

Ай бұрын

@@IvoMaropo You've been studying him how exactly?

@IvoMaropo

Ай бұрын

​@@jodawgsup By reading his books. Zizek is a very complicated guy. Any authentic dialectician is like that. He uses Lacan to read German Idealism. But not simply Lacan "the way he was", but a version of him that would be strange to Lacan himself (whereas Lacan was increasingly anti-hegelian, Zizek reads him as a hegelian par excellence). Not to mention Zizek's materialist reversal of Hegel (yes, for him, Hegel was more materialist than Marx himself). And I agree. Whenever I read Hegel's Logic, all I can think of is how insanely materialistic his thought looks. But, back to Zizek, the only person I know of to have successfully articulated his ontology is Adrian Johnston.

Not putting any pop filter in front of Zizek's mic is a crime haha

Very intresting ❤

Zizek might be a crazy cultural critic philosopher, but he's certainly the most original, involved, and endearing kind of crazy there is.

14:40, The face of the girl says it all: What have we signed up for? One of the greatest philosophers that this century will ever see!

@IvoMaropo

23 күн бұрын

Exactly. True Philosophers are never afraid of not looking politically correct. Some things simply have to be uttered.

@thomascromwell6840

17 күн бұрын

​@@IvoMaropo What are you even talking about?

She is so pretty

@its-wolfgang

26 күн бұрын

Is that a poor attempt at a subtle jibe or just a straightforward statement of opinion?

But know that the tactic changed, yet I withhold my rights to power (only if extremely necessary) which means very rarely. I'd influence others, and everyone has a right to a cause

Genius! Fantastic ideas, not all, goes without saying. But he doesnt understand that he is not a materialist, even possibly he is an idealist. Quantum mechanics. Also, when dissing Indian texts and religio it is erhaps not ideal to dismiss the more technical aspects of yoga for instance, whch involves spiritism, literally.

what is the name of the movie guys? i didn't hear it quite well

@freakrainbo

23 күн бұрын

The Rapture (1991) with Mimi Rogers (and David Duchovny!)

Finally fiction became true at 28.minute!

Whoever is the sound guy, get another for next time. What's the point with the mic half a meter away from the speaker...

The Piers Morgan of cultural theory.

Why should we privilege Hegel's reading if Christianity? Would luke to see Zizek have a dialogue with an Orthodox priest.

40:07 *X-files*

Digestible

wtf is that mic placement

@exodohd5

Ай бұрын

also, it seems to be a beta 58A, it isn't a good mic if you are not in front

@StratsRUs

Ай бұрын

It's Zizek.If the mic annoyed you then it's a good thing.

That interviewer seems like a very nice and attractive young woman!

@pavlestajdohar4377

Ай бұрын

And her twin sister sitting in the first row...? Yess, one can easily feel resurrected again throwing brilliant ideas to the audience with ease and pleasure!

@MikeFuller-ok6ok

Ай бұрын

@@pavlestajdohar4377 Agreed!

mai wafu

I wish he would say something different and new about Christianity. He has been repeating the same ideas and anecdotes for 20 years

@CrazyLinguiniLegs

Ай бұрын

Has Christianity changed significantly in the last 20 years?

@mcosu1

Ай бұрын

Perhaps not, but by that logic he has no business writing a fourth book on the topic that recycles the same tired Hegel and Chesterton lines.

@CrazyLinguiniLegs

Ай бұрын

@@mcosu1 what logic? I didn’t say Zizek has no business reiterating the same ideas over and over again. He’s free to write whatever he wants, and you’re free to consume it or not. And he would be the first to tell you that he has been saying the same thing in every book since _The Sublime Object of Ideology._

@mcosu1

Ай бұрын

@CrazyLinguiniLegs I really like Zizeks work on Christianity and I was hoping he would put some new ideas out with this book. From the interview, it sounds like more of the same.

@CrazyLinguiniLegs

Ай бұрын

@@mcosu1 yeah, I can sympathize with that. Even if he doesn’t bring any new ideas about it, it’d be interesting to hear him develop the old ones more in depth rather than repeating the same hot takes over and over.

Slavoj needs to look into alternative healthier cola! smh

The young lady is up there for decorative purposes? Could had been another one on the other side too, for symmetry.

but can I be a satanist atheist?

@IvoMaropo

Ай бұрын

No.

@ElectricityTaster

Ай бұрын

@@IvoMaropo pure ideology, mein gott.

@farrider3339

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂 DEAL make it so !

@chaotickreg7024

Ай бұрын

I think that's the point. A satanic atheist is still an atheist in negation of the Christian God. I don't think I agree though.

@IvoMaropo

Ай бұрын

​@@ElectricityTasterLOL. "But seriously", the truth of satanism is not that it's too radical, but that it's not radical enough. Yeah, Zizek's clichés are never too much. Lol. What I like about satanism is that what it fights against is already in the very core of Christianity. Take Black Metal, for instance. The problem is not Christ per se, but the fake institutional mistification of his scandalous core. Nietzsche was right: there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross. Christ still remains too traumatic a figure for Christians themselves.

what in gods name is that cake

Zizek's zschtick seems to be 'look I'm so inscrutable I must therefore be a major intellectual'.

@duckbringr

22 күн бұрын

The second part is implied by you, which means maybe he is succeeding, no?

what if AI made this

@pff1974

Ай бұрын

I think Zizek's sniffs would throw the training data off.

Poor Christians, 17,000 years of misinterpreting the original message. Many interesting words. Fascinating self-dialogue. Not sure what’s been said. But it was all in good fun.

@bensonchannel8676

Ай бұрын

What's the original message? I don't think we've discovered it to be honest

@sergiosatelite467

Ай бұрын

@@bensonchannel8676 what if the message is nothing deeper than whatever sources were available to educated 1st century Jews-mostly Paul and the writers of the gospels-plus the rest of the traditions that developed over the next three centuries and then the next 17? What if the “original” message is Neoplatonism plus Judaism + give or take a few more influences (Stocicism, for instance, and a reaction against atheistic Epicureanism?) What I find funny - honestly - is the need of intellectuals to keep rescuing Christianity as if it was special beyond its impressive capacity to keep the European world institutionally controlled for 17 centuries. As if they knew no history prior to Christianity. Honestly, why, in your opinion is Christianity so alluring that some want it even without its presumed central advantage: a god who assures it’ll all be good in the end? Why keep Christianity if it can’t even offer that? Why not just be committed humanistic naturalists without materialism-reductionism? We’ve got plenty of historical sources - including Christianity - and science. Why keep beating a historically dead horse?

Man lives always "dangerous and strange times", there´s nothing new in this sense. Secondly , every "thinker" is too "bourgeous" these days, drinking coca -cola at the same time when trying to be "wise" man, come on! I´m not buying this. At least Zizek is better than JP , but that is not much.

Same jokes

@Obberron

13 күн бұрын

He is 75. You'll get there eventually...

Please read the Gospels before you buy what Zizek is selling about the teaching of Christ (on His second coming and the role of the Holy Spirit).

@Jomchen

28 күн бұрын

What is Zizek teaching about Christ?

@JesusChristWayTruthLife777

27 күн бұрын

@@Jomchen if you’re a Christian, you’ll know the things that he says are false. If you’re not a Christian, just do some googling about the doctrine of Christ’s second coming and what the Gospel is about. It’s not what Zizek is describing.

Moral majority = American Christian right and the Republican Party. A paradox indeed.

@prkp7248

Ай бұрын

Republicans are not in any shape or form a majority in US. They are still in power thanks to gerrymandering, Indirect elections of president and unequal power of voters (every state have 2 senators, no matter how many people live there.

Zizek's inversion schtick is getting so old at this point.

Sorry, but Slavoj is only a few points ahead of Jordan Peterson these days .. oh how the mighty have fallen... I think he should start working on his quantum physics book because i heard all his current talking points almost a decade ago

@Jomchen

28 күн бұрын

A few points ahead of Peterson? Maybe if you're talking about ability to entertain an audience, but in terms of philosophy and an understanding of religion Peterson doesn't even come close. Peterson's rambling about the "biblical corpus" is a shallow attempt to branch out to and use religion to justify conservative dogma. There is no comparison.

@fireball43

20 күн бұрын

Yeah, it sucks that Zizek hasn't seem to grow much. Since he loves film, I would compare him to Tarantino. I still love their work, but also understand that there is a certain limitation to what they do.

The Coke really? Tasteless.

This has just become a carnival barker act where a bunch of zoomers get high and say "let's see what the crazy old guy with the funny accent (in a lunatic asylum in a healthy society) pulls out of his face"

@LennyCash777

Ай бұрын

Those Zoomers should lay off the ganja and this guy, and instead go watch *Zoomer Historian's* content.

@DylanRoth1860

Ай бұрын

Holy shit, you read my mind. I fuckin' love that guy. @@LennyCash777

@Stinkbug08

Ай бұрын

What makes you say that

@TribuneAquila

Ай бұрын

​​@@LennyCash777I agree! When I need my fix for Holocaust denial fascist apologia Zoomer Historian does it best!

@lilnoir4213

Ай бұрын

@@DylanRoth1860 Yeah a unqualified guy, who didnt study with a Nazi Obsession. Thats what the youth needs lol....

Zizek quite has something to say to which I can fully agree. However Don't buy his moralistic pseudo universalism when it comes to Germany. Not even radically pro Palestinian protesting students get an exmatriculation for their more than disturbing protest and antisemitic acts inside universities ! Who then wants to believe, that jews losing their jobs in germany due to a too Palestinian friendly attitude. Sometimes even Zizek isn't Zizekian enough.

@jesuswept7408

Ай бұрын

Zionism and genocide apologists are the prime drivers of anti semitism today. Stop slaughtering children and maybe you will be seen differently.

Christian Atheism......whut?

@rovic2hacking505

29 күн бұрын

Yeah if you read his book about it you will understand

The hypocrisy of sitting there obviously sponsored by Coke. Total fraud

@pff1974

Ай бұрын

It is reference to one of his documentaries, but he very well might have a Coke sponsorship.

@Dermaa

Ай бұрын

Possibly sponsored by coke, but highlighting the sordid history of the company as soon as he possibly could.

What a load of simplistic bullshit.

@drew.p.y

Ай бұрын

expand on this please

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