Exactly. Most interviewers inject an understandable anxiety into the picture because they are eager to restore the conversational back-and-forth, or they feel the need to react frequently so as to minimize any awkwardness. By contrast it’s refreshing to see an interviewer look perfectly at ease staring blankly at Zizek through most of the interview. That’s how it’s done. 👏
I couldn't get past it. Ridiculous idea. I hold nothing against the beautiful people of Poland. But this interview, in my mind, was a failure. It's your channel and your choice ofc though. To me it's like having an incredible GPU but using it with an incredibly narrow busrate ... limiting your bandwith (of information) I just hope this was a one-off or I'm gone, for what that's worth. Good day/evening/night everyone ✌🏻
Thank you for letting Žižek speak. This is possibly the best-hosted interview of him. The key to understanding Slavoj's genius is to let him speak because there are so many aspects interconnected in his thought that at first he sounds confusing and hard to follow but he always makes the point he wanted if you let him finish his thought. Greetings from ex-Yougoslavia.
Really? Cuz I kinda hate it. Maybe I just got used to his unique voice though haha Here is where ideology is found, right here in us seeking Slavoj, without the voice, coffee without caffeine, and so on and so on.
The dynamic of the Interviewer starting to pose a question, Zizek not letting him finish and go off on multiple tangents until the Interviewer tries to pose a new question had me on the edge of my seat
One thing about Žižek: it’s never really free association. There IS a thread connecting the ideas, but it’s not always easy to follow. I think my hundreds of hours watching Žižek on UA-cam helps me understand him a little better, there is definitely method to the madness.
it feels like he is getting somewhere but i cant quite grasp it. maybe that is IT. hes going somewhere by free association, the journey is the destination type analogy? idk.
To understand (Zizek or anything) is a complete opposite. Zizek ostensively makes us understand that we don't understand what we take as self-evident, and not to understand Zizek uncovers ironically our misunderstanding.
@@MystifulHD no, i think there is substance there, but he moves so fast between such big ideas it’s hard to follow. I’ve heard the term “whirlwind” used to describe the sensation and it definitely applies for me. I’ve watched the Lacan on Sexual Difference video like 100 times and I still don’t fully understand it but I definitely understand so much more than the first time. It’s pretty dense stuff but there is some substance there to be learned.
as far as i know, mr. žižek has performance fright, a serious one. thus all the scratching, etc. cuz when in a bar sitting with his friends or his child, he is kinna normal guy in his 70s, listening, talking slowly and quietly. thus i respect mr. žižek even more so for being willing (or having a need) to share publicly, knowing he’s gonna face some serious scratching.
Out of all of the interviews with Slavoj that I have seen, this is one of the best, no doubt in part because his audio sounds fantastic when it it usually so difficult to understand!
I was watching this episode, and it skipped from around 10 minute mark to 40 minute mark, and I realized it only after another half an hour. What a mesmerizing man
It's funny, I understand a little Slovenian so I've listened to a couple of it already: Žižek sounds quite "normal" when he speaks Slovenian, actually even slower and with great rhythm. Same for Serbo-Croatian, which he speaks in an extremely "controlled" way.
He's actually completely normal in Slovene. It's the English that brings out the ticks and the nervous gestures for some reason. He even leaves his nose alone when speaking in Slovene!
This podcast is quickly becoming a key platform for some of the biggest names in academia to hold some really complex long form discussions. Slavoj Žižek makes some great points and I'd like to think how they compare from the perspective of past guests. Robinson is really beginning an interesting dialogue across the intellectual world.
@@robinsonerhardtThey're right. Getting Žižek and Sean Carroll together was genius. It was fascinating to hear him speak at such an elevated level on a topic outside of his field. That was my introduction to your channel and I absolutely love it. I've watched a number of other episodes since. Žižek is a philosophy gateway drug. And long form Žižek like this episode is endlessly entertaining, illuminating, and elucidating as to the way he thinks. I read The Sublime Object of Desire. He has a fascinating mind and has led me down a rabbit hole of new concepts.
Zizek can be a pretty tough interview even for people deeply familiar with his abstruse influences. Seemed like you kept up really well with a couple of great probing questions! The Harman episode was also wonderful. Bring it on with more continental types!
What i love about Zizek is he's basically just giving off the cuff quick takes on what's going on. But if you listen to and read his dencer philosophical work he fundamentally seems to understand he must make his case with logic. He is a rhetorical genius. But he's got enough actual logic backing it up to know it's not just pure gift of gab blustering. Not to say he should be taken word for word. But his discussion as a jumping off point is invaluable. He also personifies that absolutely oblique over intellectualism of the left. Our generation is not without ample theory. What we need is people creatively breaking it down so everyone can understand the principals. And then we need more people willing to live out these principals and economic models in reality to show how it can work in practice.
The most stoic interviewer face ever and all that in the face of "hot takes all over the place"-Slavoj Žižek :D You are incredible, Sir! Thanks for this ❤ I also love his analysis concerning the "unholy alliance" between some parts of the international left (including e.g. Hasanabi, a popular political US Twitch commentator) and Putin's justification of his war against Ukraine and international order.
Possibly the best Žižek interview ever? Was the first clue the interviewer's cat? In other breaking news, scientists have recently discovered that cats can indeed be herded, but only by using cans of tuna. Žižek was jacked up on mad tuna in this interview, and the tuna was a lack of structure and theme--the freedom to associate all sorts of wonderful insights and observations in an extremely relaxed setting--and this brought out the best in him. This is a must watch. If, in fact, as Žižek postulates, free association is not free at all, then Žižek is one hell of an interesting automaton.
When my father was alive, one of his quips in life was, 'watch out, they'll have your nuts in a vice and one hand on the handle already by the time...' He spent a lot of his time around politicians, judges and legal minds early on in life.
'...it's a terribly painful process, many times it ends up in suicide, no no, this is not an argument against, I'm totally for it... ' he's an entertaining fellow.
I absolutely love how everytime Zizek says "this is the basic lesson of ..." regardless of whether he is talking about marxism, psychoanalysis, etc. He always says something different xd
Zizek, as always, supert interesting and insightful. Also, I never heared him about the quantum mechanics before. He made some really good analogies there!
a beautiful talk by the socrates of our day .his formalizations are always so well thought out .He doesn't always make sense at first, but he is definitely amazing.
Really, Bohr simply said if you run experiment 1 you get a readout about the position. If you run experiment 2 you get a readout about velocity. You can't do both at once. We choose how to run the experiment. It is nothing to do with outside or inside in a Kantian sense of empiricism or idealism. It means the experimental device does something rather than merely observing.
I respect this man so much, I want to know; what are his thoughts on Levinas (especially on the other), Weil, Ali Shariati (because of course), and Said Nursi (especially on universality in outlook)?
Psychoanalysis, done three times a week, over the course of many years, helps restructure the ego. It is not, by any means, helpful for dealing with an issue such as impotence. That can be cured rather rapidly using _hypnoanalysis._ The Freudian theory was that if you discover the root cause of your problem, it would go away, because it has become conscious. In actuality, a cathexis of the feeling complex, usually caused by anger, guilt, hurt and fear, needs to occur, and the talk therapy alone is unable to achieve this. However, the direct unmediated access to the storehouse of one's being, achieve through the hypnotic trance state, is helpful at alleviating such issues, and it doesn't take years and years, but rather a few short hours. The classic joke is that, I have been in therapy for several years now, spent tens of thousands of dollars, and I understand my problems perfectly. I still have the problem. But I understand it consciously.... See Gill and Brenman "Hypnosis and Related States". It's a classic cream-of-the-crop psychoanalytic take on hypnosis from the 1950's. So good.
Thanks for letting Zizek speak uninterrupted. Bless you!
Wouldn't dream of cutting that man off.
Exactly. Most interviewers inject an understandable anxiety into the picture because they are eager to restore the conversational back-and-forth, or they feel the need to react frequently so as to minimize any awkwardness. By contrast it’s refreshing to see an interviewer look perfectly at ease staring blankly at Zizek through most of the interview. That’s how it’s done. 👏
I couldn't get past it. Ridiculous idea.
I hold nothing against the beautiful people of Poland.
But this interview, in my mind, was a failure.
It's your channel and your choice ofc though.
To me it's like having an incredible GPU but using it with an incredibly narrow busrate ... limiting your bandwith (of information)
I just hope this was a one-off or I'm gone, for what that's worth.
Good day/evening/night everyone ✌🏻
@@robinsonerhardt❤❤❤❤❤
I don't think he had a choice 😂
Thank you for letting Žižek speak. This is possibly the best-hosted interview of him. The key to understanding Slavoj's genius is to let him speak because there are so many aspects interconnected in his thought that at first he sounds confusing and hard to follow but he always makes the point he wanted if you let him finish his thought. Greetings from ex-Yougoslavia.
Thank you! More soon :)
you did magic with the audio i don't know why literally no one else is capable of this lol
Thank you, thank you
Ah, now I get why he sounds like that
Really? Cuz I kinda hate it. Maybe I just got used to his unique voice though haha
Here is where ideology is found, right here in us seeking Slavoj, without the voice, coffee without caffeine, and so on and so on.
Absolutely the best audio quality for a Zoom interview I've heard from Zizek
@@cozz8899yeah, I was like why does he sounds like some weird 8-bit version like he’s in an old Mario game
Honestly I dearly love any podcast with Slavoj, he's as endearing as he is a monologue intellect.
This guy is a human anomaly, extremely intelligent and weird, which is probably why I like him so much :). Great Interview, good job!
Too weird to live, too rare to die.
The dynamic of the Interviewer starting to pose a question, Zizek not letting him finish and go off on multiple tangents until the Interviewer tries to pose a new question had me on the edge of my seat
i really enjoyed this format god bless the host
One thing about Žižek: it’s never really free association. There IS a thread connecting the ideas, but it’s not always easy to follow. I think my hundreds of hours watching Žižek on UA-cam helps me understand him a little better, there is definitely method to the madness.
I think my hundreds of hours watching other guys have sex with your mom on UA-cam helped me even better.
yeah.. what is it? because i need to know too 🤣
it feels like he is getting somewhere but i cant quite grasp it. maybe that is IT. hes going somewhere by free association, the journey is the destination type analogy? idk.
To understand (Zizek or anything) is a complete opposite. Zizek ostensively makes us understand that we don't understand what we take as self-evident, and not to understand Zizek uncovers ironically our misunderstanding.
@@MystifulHD no, i think there is substance there, but he moves so fast between such big ideas it’s hard to follow. I’ve heard the term “whirlwind” used to describe the sensation and it definitely applies for me. I’ve watched the Lacan on Sexual Difference video like 100 times and I still don’t fully understand it but I definitely understand so much more than the first time. It’s pretty dense stuff but there is some substance there to be learned.
he is far nicer to listen to in a relaxed setting like this. he gets so excited in lectures , understandably
as far as i know, mr. žižek has performance fright, a serious one. thus all the scratching, etc. cuz when in a bar sitting with his friends or his child, he is kinna normal guy in his 70s, listening, talking slowly and quietly. thus i respect mr. žižek even more so for being willing (or having a need) to share publicly, knowing he’s gonna face some serious scratching.
@@vatican2397 his voice was also enhanced with AI which I immediately noticed because he sounds different.
@@duranium4445, interesting. never crossed my mind.
Not
So proud to be from ex Yugoslavian country and say that we have this genius from Slovenia. Amazing podcast, as usual when Slavoj is guest.
Good to know! I tought he was Checz!
@beatonthedonis4726 2PAC IS SERBIAN !!!
Hi, Melania
This is not a podcast, it is a lecture. That way is better.
Out of all of the interviews with Slavoj that I have seen, this is one of the best, no doubt in part because his audio sounds fantastic when it it usually so difficult to understand!
50:28 I was shocked by such sound. It's a pleasure when the interviewer lets Zizek talk. Greetings from México.
I was watching this episode, and it skipped from around 10 minute mark to 40 minute mark, and I realized it only after another half an hour. What a mesmerizing man
This is the episode I didn’t know I was waiting for. Zizek is peak
He truly is
*peak Zizek
Can you imagine how intense he must be in his native tongue? Great interview.
It's funny, I understand a little Slovenian so I've listened to a couple of it already: Žižek sounds quite "normal" when he speaks Slovenian, actually even slower and with great rhythm. Same for Serbo-Croatian, which he speaks in an extremely "controlled" way.
@@doomerang7135 Ja ne znam je li ikada dolazio u Bosnu na predavanja. Dosta naših ljudi nema pojma o njemu, a Amerikanci ga obožavaju.
😊😊
I am Slovenian and listening to the debates in Slovenian, is very normal, even too normal.
He's actually completely normal in Slovene. It's the English that brings out the ticks and the nervous gestures for some reason. He even leaves his nose alone when speaking in Slovene!
I would've hoped I'd never see the expressions "wokeness" and "quantum mechanics" in the same title, but I guess Slavoj is worthy of an exception 😆
hahahaha he certainly is
Read Donna Haraway, hahaha
Actually based and true of him to shoehorn both topics into one discussion.
This podcast is quickly becoming a key platform for some of the biggest names in academia to hold some really complex long form discussions. Slavoj Žižek makes some great points and I'd like to think how they compare from the perspective of past guests. Robinson is really beginning an interesting dialogue across the intellectual world.
Thanks!! This is so sweet of you to say :)
@@robinsonerhardt qqq%qq
@@robinsonerhardtThey're right. Getting Žižek and Sean Carroll together was genius. It was fascinating to hear him speak at such an elevated level on a topic outside of his field. That was my introduction to your channel and I absolutely love it. I've watched a number of other episodes since. Žižek is a philosophy gateway drug.
And long form Žižek like this episode is endlessly entertaining, illuminating, and elucidating as to the way he thinks. I read The Sublime Object of Desire. He has a fascinating mind and has led me down a rabbit hole of new concepts.
Thank you so much :) Glad you found it!@@bettertomorrow2625
Zizek can be a pretty tough interview even for people deeply familiar with his abstruse influences. Seemed like you kept up really well with a couple of great probing questions! The Harman episode was also wonderful. Bring it on with more continental types!
I'm so glad to hear this.
The basic point of Psychoanalysis is that it has many Basic points. Excellent episode!!
Haha very true!
Really glad for the 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' mention. Waiting for Larry's next season!
I feel like every Zizek speech is an original. Awesome interview! 👍
Thanks so much!
And I feel like in his every talk/lecture he is always talking about the same things
Pleasantly surprised to hear Žižek mention Naming and Necessity as an important formative book. I never would have imagined we have that in common.
This is of the best podcast with Zizek! Thank you!
Wow. Thanks!
I had no idea who you were, nor do I still know, but having watched your two Zizek interactions; I greatly enjoyed your interruptions!
Very nice interview!! It’s rare someone really let’s Slavoj talk :)
Thank you! 😃
I think zizek is the only intellectual figure that i will cry for when he's gone
TheGinglyms. how are you so sure that he will go before you. I wish you a long life, don't misunderstand me, but...
@@barflytom3273 usually someone twice your age dies before you
@@TheGinglymus usually. but not always.
@@barflytom3273 do you think you're making some profound point by stating the obvious?
What i love about Zizek is he's basically just giving off the cuff quick takes on what's going on. But if you listen to and read his dencer philosophical work he fundamentally seems to understand he must make his case with logic. He is a rhetorical genius. But he's got enough actual logic backing it up to know it's not just pure gift of gab blustering.
Not to say he should be taken word for word. But his discussion as a jumping off point is invaluable.
He also personifies that absolutely oblique over intellectualism of the left. Our generation is not without ample theory. What we need is people creatively breaking it down so everyone can understand the principals. And then we need more people willing to live out these principals and economic models in reality to show how it can work in practice.
im so happy slavoj's voice is not through a shitty webcam mic.... i can actually listen to this
the logic of suspicion - this was worth it just for that. thx slavoj.
Zizek’s comments on Shakespeare strongly resonates with the Structuralism of the 20th century. Lacanian through and through!
The clear connections zizek makes between seemingly far away concepts reminds me of psilocybin mushrooms experience
Great stuff, thanks again!
The most stoic interviewer face ever and all that in the face of "hot takes all over the place"-Slavoj Žižek :D You are incredible, Sir! Thanks for this ❤ I also love his analysis concerning the "unholy alliance" between some parts of the international left (including e.g. Hasanabi, a popular political US Twitch commentator) and Putin's justification of his war against Ukraine and international order.
Possibly the best Žižek interview ever? Was the first clue the interviewer's cat? In other breaking news, scientists have recently discovered that cats can indeed be herded, but only by using cans of tuna. Žižek was jacked up on mad tuna in this interview, and the tuna was a lack of structure and theme--the freedom to associate all sorts of wonderful insights and observations in an extremely relaxed setting--and this brought out the best in him. This is a must watch. If, in fact, as Žižek postulates, free association is not free at all, then Žižek is one hell of an interesting automaton.
so glad you liked it!
Zizek is the BEST, hands down
What a guy! This is another great episode!
Thanks :)
Great video!
Cbum and Zizek is a great duo.
hahahahaha I’m blushing
This is a fantastic video. Slavoj was absolutely spitting!!
Thank you very much for the podcast. Greetings from Ukraine
Greetings from the Bay!
I slipped on a banana and fell in love with Zizek since the first moment I heard him. Great episode!
You are a very good interviewer for Slavoj. Dude gives us the most interesting rambles
thank you!
When my father was alive, one of his quips in life was, 'watch out, they'll have your nuts in a vice and one hand on the handle already by the time...' He spent a lot of his time around politicians, judges and legal minds early on in life.
The Nazi were all Christians of one type or another...
Thank you so much!🙂❤️🙏👌
No problem 😊
Nice. Also, Zizek is looking like the protagonist from the movie Up.
zizek never gives me answers, he just makes me realize the absurd stuff going on, I love it
Sometimes that's enough.
66:34 Zizek has been 100% right about Ukraine from day one and it's so nice
'...it's a terribly painful process, many times it ends up in suicide, no no, this is not an argument against, I'm totally for it... ' he's an entertaining fellow.
I absolutely love how everytime Zizek says "this is the basic lesson of ..." regardless of whether he is talking about marxism, psychoanalysis, etc. He always says something different xd
Zizek, as always, supert interesting and insightful. Also, I never heared him about the quantum mechanics before. He made some really good analogies there!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you very much for letting him talk. You got a new follow!
Yay! Thanks :)
This man unlocked his unconscious mind👍
Amazing, thx. What a beautiful brain!!!
Glad you liked it!
The subtitles are occasionally wild, but mostly helpful.
Your Podcast is a gem…greetings Form Vienna!
Guten Abend! Danke!
Only Quality guests ! Awesome. Love Zizek. Hello pod 🐈
Thanks!!!! She is in my lap right now and says hello to you too
amazing audio quality
What a guest! Made my Sunday
Mine, too
Nothing is lineair with Zizek. Love the joke. I cracked up.
That opening clip is amazing.
OMG great guest and interview!! 🎉
Thanks so much!
Great episode!
Thanks!
Super
Thanks!
Awesome ❤ also that cat is a real life screen saver
Haha she is!
wowowowoowooooooooow. thanks for this, i needed that podcast
Any time!
So stoked for this 🔥🔥🔥
nice podcast - solid host - great whiskers
hahaha the best whiskers
Zizek loves Curb too. That is nice to know.
Please repeat this guest and your methods of interviewing him.❤
Sure!
Bro how did you get Zizek on???
Nice to see you here Joe 👀 maybe you could be a guest on this show!
What an episode!
!!!
Well this episode was a ride
The best ride imo
Ball crusher.. just wow...
Thank you for the upload 👍🏽
My pleasure!!
Loved this
Awesome!
Zizek is so smart
Majorly creative
a beautiful talk by the socrates of our day .his formalizations are always so well thought out .He doesn't always make sense at first, but he is definitely amazing.
I would characterize him more as a Diogenes than a Socrates 😂 extremely profound and entertaining in a very fundamental way.
I just wish he elaborated further on the specific ideological formation we have today in relation to the dominant ideology of modernity: the subject.
Really, Bohr simply said if you run experiment 1 you get a readout about the position. If you run experiment 2 you get a readout about velocity. You can't do both at once. We choose how to run the experiment. It is nothing to do with outside or inside in a Kantian sense of empiricism or idealism. It means the experimental device does something rather than merely observing.
Great interview! Please, invite Reza Negarestani for another one!
Life is too short to listen to naxi zizek.
I respect this man so much, I want to know; what are his thoughts on Levinas (especially on the other), Weil, Ali Shariati (because of course), and Said Nursi (especially on universality in outlook)?
Quantum Mechanics + Hegel + Lacan + Žižek = "mind blown"
Žižek's mike is on point
I imagine a truly intelligent AI as something that can imitate Zizek with all his facettes. His "Uhm"s and snorts, his movements are one of a kind.
Tha cat seems to me to be giving off some strong Wittgenstein vibes. 😊
Love this channel!!
Thank you!
I still want that list of Analytic thinkers who dismissed Hegel because they couldn't understand him.
This was really interesting - he’s funny too
So funny
Excellent show
God bless love you all
Slavoj gets the views.
Zizek’s insights on cock and ball torture were a great preview
Psychoanalysis, done three times a week, over the course of many years, helps restructure the ego. It is not, by any means, helpful for dealing with an issue such as impotence. That can be cured rather rapidly using _hypnoanalysis._
The Freudian theory was that if you discover the root cause of your problem, it would go away, because it has become conscious. In actuality, a cathexis of the feeling complex, usually caused by anger, guilt, hurt and fear, needs to occur, and the talk therapy alone is unable to achieve this.
However, the direct unmediated access to the storehouse of one's being, achieve through the hypnotic trance state, is helpful at alleviating such issues, and it doesn't take years and years, but rather a few short hours.
The classic joke is that, I have been in therapy for several years now, spent tens of thousands of dollars, and I understand my problems perfectly. I still have the problem. But I understand it consciously....
See Gill and Brenman "Hypnosis and Related States". It's a classic cream-of-the-crop psychoanalytic take on hypnosis from the 1950's. So good.
From Pakistan 🇵🇰 ,bigup man
That introduction hurt me🤣
I think you can see that it hurt me too
Good, thanks
Watching an intelligent hot man with a cat while hearing Zizek endlessly talk, have i slipped with a banana peel? 😍
This looks like my tinder date where I wasn't able to speak and just nodded in return :D
hahaha
I like this cat here... very very much. 😻👍
Me too
Big (newer) fan here if your podcast .
Honk!
Wild!!
The wildest.