as some one who likes zizek, has been to at least one of his lectures at mcgill, and someone who grew up in toronto....i am surprised to find that this happened in 2012, surprised that no one told me about it, and pretty surprised that he was giving a lecture in city hall chambers, especially around the time our mayor was smoking crack cocaine.
Dude I bet Slavoj smoked some crack cocaine in his younger days aswell, propably just to see what the fuss was about. But yeah great lecture and interesting to see it nowadays.
As someone who also likes Žižek,it makes me sad that he's abandoned by majority of left cuz he blamed Putin only,when Russia attacked Ukraine.As a leftie,I disagree with him( as if NATO expansion & coup weren't happening).As his Croat neighbour,I sympathise with him, cuz in Ex Yugoslavia,we were only socialist country in Europe, free from influence of Moscow.
@ivanlilic5247 i know the Czar stood up for Serbia, and Russia still looks out for them. It makes me think in another era, Ukraine, Russia, Serbia etc., could be a community.
Finally a Zizek talk with new jokes (surprised about the absence of certain classic zizek jokes in the second half). Also, really fascinating that he’s talking about the “The Act of Killing,” although I think the documentary warrants more analysis. Zizek is also quite direct in this one (he’s generally behind some walls of metaphor - the jokes, the cinema, etc). Loved it. You’re doing great work.
At 50:30 something strange happened: I had been listening without paying much attention to the screen and then I cast a glance and saw a young man in a checkered shirt seemingly smoking! I thought how natural and relaxing and inspiring it looked. For a second I was transfixed into a parallel reality that seemed more real than the real one.
I think one of the greatest things humans can do is take something that was developed in their own uncontactable consciousness, grasp it, and hand it to others. Your comment here as done that strongly, at least for me!
how original, that must have taken you a long time to think up, because whatever takes a long time to think up, will take time, patience, energy, fortitude, persistence and so and so on.
I used to like this Žižek! When Putin invaded Ukraine, Žižek was biggest NATO apologist,he couldn't even had neutral 50/50 blame to share! Not to mention Gaza & so on....
I've spend most of my life always considering capitalism as it is. A wronged game just assure structure of power and "legitimacy". So, a blatant trap. I just realize in some way, with this document, that people acquire capitalism to themselves. I somehow stop considered people being that dumb and owned, captured. It's a slap. I've been studying the critic of capitalism so much, i lost the idea that people are just catch without knowing it and anything about it. Wow that's a precious reminder.
Most people dont have the time or will to even critise the system their living on. They just accept it as it comes and continue with their daily lives voting the most noisy or glamorous candidate. It's quite sad, but we, the ones who know that this system doesnt work, should be influencing people around us so that they show some interest in it.
Yeah that type of case in China about older women falling down here in India also soo many cases like that in which a guy helps someone who had an accident but later that guy is culprit of that accident Soo one day when i going back home after i saw a man and his 2-3 year son laying down on road cuz of accident after that place is crowded with people's but only 2 or 3 man took some action about that on that spot one guy asking if someone have car take that man &child to hospital but 2 or 3 guys just passed by in car when asked for helping then when i reached there they also said that to me then I'm little bit afraid also but i just think oh hell if something wrong gonna happen to me like the guy family put charge on me or whatever I just said to myself first just helped that man & child then i took them in my car to hospital but when we reached in hospital the doctor's tell us that they r already dead We already called their family from his phone then his father arrived there then i hand over his phone to his father and come back home then for 2 or 3 days his family called me and asking about what happened then i told them whatever i know They thanks me for taking them to hospital And one thing also when i reach there One guy saying that has anyone called police or ambulance? And One man who is already in police but in formal clothes cuz of he already finished that day duty and coming back home cuz i find that out when we r in hospital that this guy is in police he literally said that police don't do anything we need to take action ourselves and it's true also cuz here if someone had an accident or anything and if u waited for police to come and do something about that this mean u r a fool that either the people's on that spot helps or just on their own Soo long story short even the cops doesn't have faith in police that they will help anybody It's just like that story from yuri gagarin the astronaut when he tells pope that there's no heaven or anything then pope said yeah but don't tell anyone
10:22 Zizek talks about Hollywood signal that a couple have sex by fading the screen and a cut, and exactly at this moment, the cam behind Zizek becomes dark and there is a cut🤣🤣🤣 i think the camera man wanted to make a dirty joke with Zizek.
Who's the intellectual babe that asked the Ghandi question? Excuse me for succumbing to my carnal observations but I really felt the attention to his tangents too.
This is a decade old, but I think Žižek hasn't changed much since. What throws me back about him is his eternal love affair with communism mixed with a sly brush of negationism. 44:32 China has been a communist country for more than seven decades, beginning with a revolution heavily focused on education. However, he describes the obscene social phenomenon of the old lady who sued the man who helped her as a consequence of capitalism. He is very quick to diverge his speech from any inference on the contradiction of the time and place that event occurred by saying that “it is not about China” when it totally is about China and its social and moral values, which are channeled through an education system completely controlled by the Communist Party. Another moment that caught my attention in this regard was earlier in the video when he talked about Indonesia and the unsettling interview about methods of torture by right-wing nationalist psychopaths as an example of the dark realm of ideology. He never recognizes that left-wing ideology is also treated as a religion that led to unspeakable acts of torture and the glorification of it around the same region (Southeast Asia) but decades earlier in Cambodia. The killing fields of the Khmer Rouge were one of the most barbaric acts of genocide of the 20th century, but somehow this obscenity always seems to slip his mind. He is a brilliant thinker, but as someone who received and embraced an education based on the glory of socialism, he can’t really detach himself from that delusion, even though he is completely aware of it. Ironically, he makes himself an example of the powerful grasp of ideology’s moral double standards.
@@Muffinfordinner I’m not an expert on Žižek, but I’ve been listening to his speeches for more than a decade. Yes, he condemns Stalinism. But in Marxist intellectual circles, that’s kind of a cop-out, like washing your hands of Stalin and sort of airbrushing him out of Communist history (a very Stanilistic move, ironicly) somehow makes all the other Socialist dictators okay. It’s not about recognizing the evil of Stalinism. His negationism comes from not being able to recognize the evil of Communism/Socialism as a whole and still blaming its atrocities as a consequence of Capitalism in some kind of circular reasoning that claims the shortcomings of Communist societies are proof that Capitalism is bad. Like the China story he recounts in this speech, for example.
It is possible to find in a chapter of this book titled "A Brief Romantic Interlude: Dick and Jane Go to 3 1/2 Seconds of the Classical Hollywood Cinema" books.google.cz/books/about/Post_Theory.html?id=sG9ZAAAAMAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y
@@K31R17 Here are some of my favorite talks: - Zizek & Holdengraber 1 - Zizek & Holdengraber 2 - Zizek & Will Self - Zizek & Yanis Varoufakis - Zizek & Peter Sloterdijk
Great lecture, entertaining as ever and interesting to see it in a time in which we are now.... not the best camera work😅 Aaaand ofcourse Zizek is rambling as always but I could have listened to him answering questions for 10 more hours. Still, in the questions asked there was an interesting spectrum of informed over inquisitive up to naive. Ofcourse Zizek is too charming to say it out loud but the last lady questioning certainly has her heart in the right place but god damn was that last line of questioning stupid. Zizek (admittedly in a very "all over the place" way) talks about a global ideological trend or whatever you want to call it and her question is basically "how about hippie communes that globally band together and make monetary value unnecessary".... dude some tried it in the 60s and 70s and it works out if you're a small idealistic group of young people... for a certain time... but looking at history as a whole and the human condition(and as Zizek loves to do: sexuality) there is no way whatsoever people will suddenly band together and say :" okay we'll only produce what we all need on a basic level and have peace" it will NEVER happen. It's the dream of a 16 year old. It doesn't even work in a smal village of like 2000 people. Human psychology prevents it on the most basic level. The "Ideengeschichte" and the history of human society as a whole makes it abundantly clear that "owning something" and "not owning something" and "taking what I (or my group) want(s)" is hardwired into our being. It doesn't even work in core families often, that everyone just get's what they need. It's a dream of paradise and paradise is an idea that precisely developed because there was always struggle and strife. Wish we could have had some more questions and espescially less childish ones than the last.
It looks 'so good' due to a combination of many things - for one, the lighting is not as flat as it tends to be in well lit lecture halls, you can see that there is a lot of contrast, probably due to the room being quite dark with pointed lights. Second, low aperture on the camera lens gives a shallow depth of field so when it's focused on Zizek the background is blurred. And finally, several different camera angles, all of which are untypical ones compared to what you normally see from filmed lectures/speeches - you normally get a single shot throughout, and it tens to be shot from the back of the hall in front of the speaker, zoomed in past the audience, sometimes with an active camera-man tracking the speaker if they walk around stage. All in all - the camera has nothing to do with why this looks as good as it does, but whoever was in charge of filming it is a very skilled cinematographer who went a little above and beyond just 'video-recording a lecture'. Pretty neat, I wish more events/functions were filmed with a little bit of artistery like this.
According to ChatGPT: Yes, Slavoj Žižek did give a talk titled "Capital" as part of the symposium "Until the End of the World" at Toronto City Hall. This event occurred on November 22, 2014. The symposium was organized by the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and took place as part of the World Pride Human Rights Conference that year. Žižek's lecture touched on his usual themes, including capitalism, ideology, and political theory, in his characteristic style of engaging with contemporary cultural and philosophical issues.
@@dansonoflightning2277 Just listen, it's quite obvious. I'm not going to actually listen to it again! Video is about 1/3 longer than it needs to be, and I am not the only one who noticed. See other comments.
I'm always fairly confused as to why he refers to himself as a communist or a radical leftists instead of a petit bourgeoisie mental masturbater with an affinity for socialist thought. He never talks about class structure which is the elephant in the room.
Some great cinematography within this recording.
🔙🔛🔙📴
It's Lars von Trier I think
Reply to this in a week, I'll clarify.
I was about to say the same, this is great
@@dreamsbyte Clarify
as some one who likes zizek, has been to at least one of his lectures at mcgill, and someone who grew up in toronto....i am surprised to find that this happened in 2012, surprised that no one told me about it, and pretty surprised that he was giving a lecture in city hall chambers, especially around the time our mayor was smoking crack cocaine.
😂
Dude I bet Slavoj smoked some crack cocaine in his younger days aswell, propably just to see what the fuss was about. But yeah great lecture and interesting to see it nowadays.
Nothing more safer and sit in a comfortable situation and think how the world of ideas sound good.
As someone who also likes Žižek,it makes me sad that he's abandoned by majority of left cuz he blamed Putin only,when Russia attacked Ukraine.As a leftie,I disagree with him( as if NATO expansion & coup weren't happening).As his Croat neighbour,I sympathise with him, cuz in Ex Yugoslavia,we were only socialist country in Europe, free from influence of Moscow.
@ivanlilic5247 i know the Czar stood up for Serbia, and Russia still looks out for them. It makes me think in another era, Ukraine, Russia, Serbia etc., could be a community.
Finally a Zizek talk with new jokes (surprised about the absence of certain classic zizek jokes in the second half). Also, really fascinating that he’s talking about the “The Act of Killing,” although I think the documentary warrants more analysis. Zizek is also quite direct in this one (he’s generally behind some walls of metaphor - the jokes, the cinema, etc). Loved it. You’re doing great work.
At 50:30 something strange happened: I had been listening without paying much attention to the screen and then I cast a glance and saw a young man in a checkered shirt seemingly smoking! I thought how natural and relaxing and inspiring it looked. For a second I was transfixed into a parallel reality that seemed more real than the real one.
thats how ideology functions and so on
Very cool! He reminds me of will hunting
I think one of the greatest things humans can do is take something that was developed in their own uncontactable consciousness, grasp it, and hand it to others. Your comment here as done that strongly, at least for me!
how crazy... it looks like he's smoking but then he writes with his cigarette
Yep, dude is smoking on his pencil, and all that in the face of bans on smoking in closed spaces, which he casually ignores.
The artistic lecture was very different ! Zizek need to come to Brazil ❤
Nice how the artist started his show with one of his greatest hits 😄
Thank you Slavoj for analysis and summary.
10:24 so did he do it during that fade-out or not?
Just another Slavoj masterpiece lecture that continues to convince people the need to chance this religious system driven by Capital.
Thank you🎉🎉🎉🎉
And so on and so on.
how original, that must have taken you a long time to think up, because whatever takes a long time to think up, will take time, patience, energy, fortitude, persistence and so and so on.
@@darillus1 I would prefer not to…
@@darillus1 and so on
I used to like this Žižek! When Putin invaded Ukraine, Žižek was biggest NATO apologist,he couldn't even had neutral 50/50 blame to share! Not to mention Gaza & so on....
I think the audio doubles up sometimes
It does . Don't think
Yep, noticed that too.
I've spend most of my life always considering capitalism as it is. A wronged game just assure structure of power and "legitimacy". So, a blatant trap. I just realize in some way, with this document, that people acquire capitalism to themselves. I somehow stop considered people being that dumb and owned, captured. It's a slap. I've been studying the critic of capitalism so much, i lost the idea that people are just catch without knowing it and anything about it. Wow that's a precious reminder.
Most people dont have the time or will to even critise the system their living on. They just accept it as it comes and continue with their daily lives voting the most noisy or glamorous candidate. It's quite sad, but we, the ones who know that this system doesnt work, should be influencing people around us so that they show some interest in it.
Yeah that type of case in China about older women falling down here in India also soo many cases like that in which a guy helps someone who had an accident but later that guy is culprit of that accident
Soo one day when i going back home after i saw a man and his 2-3 year son laying down on road cuz of accident after that place is crowded with people's but only 2 or 3 man took some action about that on that spot one guy asking if someone have car take that man &child to hospital but 2 or 3 guys just passed by in car when asked for helping then when i reached there they also said that to me then I'm little bit afraid also but i just think oh hell if something wrong gonna happen to me like the guy family put charge on me or whatever
I just said to myself first just helped that man & child then i took them in my car to hospital but when we reached in hospital the doctor's tell us that they r already dead
We already called their family from his phone then his father arrived there then i hand over his phone to his father and come back home then for 2 or 3 days his family called me and asking about what happened then i told them whatever i know
They thanks me for taking them to hospital
And one thing also when i reach there
One guy saying that has anyone called police or ambulance? And One man who is already in police but in formal clothes cuz of he already finished that day duty and coming back home cuz i find that out when we r in hospital that this guy is in police he literally said that police don't do anything we need to take action ourselves and it's true also cuz here if someone had an accident or anything and if u waited for police to come and do something about that this mean u r a fool that either the people's on that spot helps or just on their own
Soo long story short even the cops doesn't have faith in police that they will help anybody
It's just like that story from yuri gagarin the astronaut when he tells pope that there's no heaven or anything then pope said yeah but don't tell anyone
don’t tell me you weren’t paranoid about the glass dangerously placed next to zizek’s restless hand 😂
With all those repetition, probably cut off moment. I really wonder about the document integrity.
Agree. Noticed that too.
10:22 Zizek talks about Hollywood signal that a couple have sex by fading the screen and a cut, and exactly at this moment, the cam behind Zizek becomes dark and there is a cut🤣🤣🤣 i think the camera man wanted to make a dirty joke with Zizek.
Canned Laughter in public/private space
Who's the intellectual babe that asked the Ghandi question? Excuse me for succumbing to my carnal observations but I really felt the attention to his tangents too.
I dunno about babe, but that was no intellectual.
This is a decade old, but I think Žižek hasn't changed much since. What throws me back about him is his eternal love affair with communism mixed with a sly brush of negationism. 44:32 China has been a communist country for more than seven decades, beginning with a revolution heavily focused on education. However, he describes the obscene social phenomenon of the old lady who sued the man who helped her as a consequence of capitalism. He is very quick to diverge his speech from any inference on the contradiction of the time and place that event occurred by saying that “it is not about China” when it totally is about China and its social and moral values, which are channeled through an education system completely controlled by the Communist Party.
Another moment that caught my attention in this regard was earlier in the video when he talked about Indonesia and the unsettling interview about methods of torture by right-wing nationalist psychopaths as an example of the dark realm of ideology. He never recognizes that left-wing ideology is also treated as a religion that led to unspeakable acts of torture and the glorification of it around the same region (Southeast Asia) but decades earlier in Cambodia. The killing fields of the Khmer Rouge were one of the most barbaric acts of genocide of the 20th century, but somehow this obscenity always seems to slip his mind. He is a brilliant thinker, but as someone who received and embraced an education based on the glory of socialism, he can’t really detach himself from that delusion, even though he is completely aware of it. Ironically, he makes himself an example of the powerful grasp of ideology’s moral double standards.
Mmmm
He does recognize the evil of Stalinist ideology. You just haven't found those speeches yet.
@@Muffinfordinner I’m not an expert on Žižek, but I’ve been listening to his speeches for more than a decade. Yes, he condemns Stalinism. But in Marxist intellectual circles, that’s kind of a cop-out, like washing your hands of Stalin and sort of airbrushing him out of Communist history (a very Stanilistic move, ironicly) somehow makes all the other Socialist dictators okay. It’s not about recognizing the evil of Stalinism. His negationism comes from not being able to recognize the evil of Communism/Socialism as a whole and still blaming its atrocities as a consequence of Capitalism in some kind of circular reasoning that claims the shortcomings of Communist societies are proof that Capitalism is bad. Like the China story he recounts in this speech, for example.
In India it's already like that on tobacco and smoking packets there is a photo of someone have mouth cancer
This must be a 2012 talk! Slavoj refers to The Act of Killing presentation in Toronto,
11:23 Slavoy talks about British film theorist Richard Molbie(?) and his article on Casablanca. I struggle to find it, can anyone help?
It is possible to find in a chapter of this book titled "A Brief Romantic Interlude: Dick and Jane Go to 3 1/2 Seconds of the Classical Hollywood Cinema"
books.google.cz/books/about/Post_Theory.html?id=sG9ZAAAAMAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y
Providing you aren't able to access website the book is called Post Theory: Reconstructing Film studies by David Bordwell
@@adamhatala7184 thank you very much!
when did he do this lecture?
tomorrow
2012
Woah
2012
Why did he do this lecture?
Wow rare shit
where is the best place to find Zizek lectures. used to go simon Gros but google canned it. ?
@@K31R17 Here are some of my favorite talks:
- Zizek & Holdengraber 1
- Zizek & Holdengraber 2
- Zizek & Will Self
- Zizek & Yanis Varoufakis
- Zizek & Peter Sloterdijk
Simon gros Channel was shut down by youtube. He made a new one under the same name
@@JD_Wicks yeah I know any other places like his channel ?
@@valardohaeriz5163 thanks
Great lecture, entertaining as ever and interesting to see it in a time in which we are now.... not the best camera work😅
Aaaand ofcourse Zizek is rambling as always but I could have listened to him answering questions for 10 more hours. Still, in the questions asked there was an interesting spectrum of informed over inquisitive up to naive. Ofcourse Zizek is too charming to say it out loud but the last lady questioning certainly has her heart in the right place but god damn was that last line of questioning stupid. Zizek (admittedly in a very "all over the place" way) talks about a global ideological trend or whatever you want to call it and her question is basically "how about hippie communes that globally band together and make monetary value unnecessary".... dude some tried it in the 60s and 70s and it works out if you're a small idealistic group of young people... for a certain time... but looking at history as a whole and the human condition(and as Zizek loves to do: sexuality) there is no way whatsoever people will suddenly band together and say :" okay we'll only produce what we all need on a basic level and have peace" it will NEVER happen. It's the dream of a 16 year old. It doesn't even work in a smal village of like 2000 people. Human psychology prevents it on the most basic level. The "Ideengeschichte" and the history of human society as a whole makes it abundantly clear that "owning something" and "not owning something" and "taking what I (or my group) want(s)" is hardwired into our being.
It doesn't even work in core families often, that everyone just get's what they need. It's a dream of paradise and paradise is an idea that precisely developed because there was always struggle and strife.
Wish we could have had some more questions and espescially less childish ones than the last.
why does this look so good? what was the camera that was used?
I suspect is perhaps high iso pushed on video camera?
It looks 'so good' due to a combination of many things - for one, the lighting is not as flat as it tends to be in well lit lecture halls, you can see that there is a lot of contrast, probably due to the room being quite dark with pointed lights. Second, low aperture on the camera lens gives a shallow depth of field so when it's focused on Zizek the background is blurred. And finally, several different camera angles, all of which are untypical ones compared to what you normally see from filmed lectures/speeches - you normally get a single shot throughout, and it tens to be shot from the back of the hall in front of the speaker, zoomed in past the audience, sometimes with an active camera-man tracking the speaker if they walk around stage.
All in all - the camera has nothing to do with why this looks as good as it does, but whoever was in charge of filming it is a very skilled cinematographer who went a little above and beyond just 'video-recording a lecture'. Pretty neat, I wish more events/functions were filmed with a little bit of artistery like this.
"Very proud to be here" roughly translating to "scatter me the hell out of here" ...?
Slavoj is cleverer than me.
The Capitalism's Court Jester.
Umm is this generated content?
Wouldn't surprise me. There are some red flags, like the audio repetitions.
According to ChatGPT: Yes, Slavoj Žižek did give a talk titled "Capital" as part of the symposium "Until the End of the World" at Toronto City Hall. This event occurred on November 22, 2014. The symposium was organized by the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and took place as part of the World Pride Human Rights Conference that year.
Žižek's lecture touched on his usual themes, including capitalism, ideology, and political theory, in his characteristic style of engaging with contemporary cultural and philosophical issues.
Why is the audio copied and repeated all the way through? Maybe there’s some aim, but I don’t find it helpful, just annoying.
Is this Boule or council of 500?
Don't look up what he was upto in slovenia in early 90's
date?
no, am taken, sorry
@@torquemaddertorquemadder20802012
I prefer prunes
It’s August 22nd 2024 where I am hbu
he says it in the video aroun 00:33:00 - 2012
The video controller seems distracted, and certainly incompetent.
best definition of love ua-cam.com/video/8WPN5GYdxlA/v-deo.html
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Ok wtf is this nonsense, why are you duplicating sections? To get more ad pay?
Noticed that duplication too.
Curious why several sections repeat. Happens 3 or 4 times throughout.
Time stamps?
@@dansonoflightning2277 Just listen, it's quite obvious. I'm not going to actually listen to it again! Video is about 1/3 longer than it needs to be, and I am not the only one who noticed. See other comments.
1:54:10 crazy lady asks questions.
Crazy sexy
And now, COMRADE STALIN!
👏
I'm always fairly confused as to why he refers to himself as a communist or a radical leftists instead of a petit bourgeoisie mental masturbater with an affinity for socialist thought.
He never talks about class structure which is the elephant in the room.
overrated sick dude.
Have you read his 1200 pages long commentary on Hegel? That’s sick
I thought it was quite fun
other content doesnt subdue my zizek itch
The fact that you think there are philosophers out there somewhere in history who are not over-rated, betrays special kind of dogmatism and naivety.
We are all overrated. We are in an environment where “none is sick and none is well” as Leonard Cohen sings.
the colors on this are quite filmic wtf
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