Full lecture: On Žižek’s theory of perfection

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  • Опубліковано 21 сер 2022
  • Hi guys, thanks for joining me for my weekly lecture! It’s totally open-access and free for anyone to watch.
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  • @emmakorb5990
    @emmakorb5990 Рік тому +14

    So happy this found me, self help is rotting my brain

  • @merenis7627
    @merenis7627 Рік тому +9

    Pure gold, I love that it's such a current analysis, almost no one is talking about the fake authenticity yet. And it relates to what I was thinking about so much :) thank you

  • @jonathanwoodvincent
    @jonathanwoodvincent Рік тому +9

    4:55 starts the lecture proper

  • @absolutelysanedefinitelynormal
    @absolutelysanedefinitelynormal Рік тому +30

    Thank you for making these videos available for free. I'm interested and invested in learning about philosophy, but it is highly inaccessible to most people.
    Your explanation makes hard topics and often convoluted philosophical terms much simpler and easy to digest.
    Your content is very enjoyable. I'm probably going to binge watch everything you've done so far. :D
    Also, hello to you from Russia!

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  Рік тому +9

      Thank you so much! That’s the dream, to prove that education can be accessible and entertaining without dumbing to down. Thank you for understanding

  • @szymonukaszewski4910
    @szymonukaszewski4910 Рік тому +53

    I'm going to stay with the theory that Zizek is your father

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  Рік тому +21

      Well my father is a professor so it’s close enough 😂

    • @szymonukaszewski4910
      @szymonukaszewski4910 Рік тому +8

      @@julianphilosophy Professor of what? I'm intrested

    • @totonow6955
      @totonow6955 Рік тому +3

      Not enough sniffing ; ) ... Love them both. Cheers to you.

  • @TomcioGnat1990
    @TomcioGnat1990 Рік тому +2

    You can look at Saint-Exupery quote as not embracing the imperfection but catching the essence. Especially when you apply it to objects. Its often used in design. You can add features indefinitely but it will distract from items purpose, will make it chaotic, when you strip the object to essencial features, all of them become purposefull and harmonic.

  • @mardybum74
    @mardybum74 Рік тому +2

    this lecture is amazing

  • @17goffshas
    @17goffshas Рік тому +3

    Authenticity is imperfection. The ability to be one's whole self, both flaws and graces included. To know both triumph and failure; to live moment by moment as both self and moment change. To be eternally ephemeral.

  • @evilsdouble
    @evilsdouble Рік тому +3

    Loving it!

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    @huseyinkerem6010 Рік тому +2

    Greetings from Istanbul. Glad to learn you two met here. Keep up the good work!

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    Thank you for making videos! From Czech republic

  • @luboba1
    @luboba1 2 місяці тому

    I just stumbled upon your channel and I like it so much already. So much to think about! Cheers, from Salvador-Bahia-Brazil

  • @webquestAUS
    @webquestAUS Рік тому +4

    What a perfectly (im)perfect way to share love. Thank you! ❤️

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  Рік тому +1

      My pleasure! Thanks for watching. And if you liked the lecture you might also enjoy the podcast I recorded afterwards. Available here: www.patreon.com/jenalineandjulian

  • @RuthParodies
    @RuthParodies Рік тому +2

    Do you also have a Spotify, Julian? Would love listening to your lectures whilst biking (Greetings from the Netherlands)

  • @user-il9ze9py8c
    @user-il9ze9py8c Рік тому +4

    I know this might be a lot, but would you be willing to drop links to the books you use in your lectures? That or like a reading list. Love the videos!

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    @fm5399 Рік тому

    Thanks from Italy!

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    @frank-jh1cm Рік тому +4

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  • @wolfgangkohlhof2180
    @wolfgangkohlhof2180 Рік тому +1

    All about holding it possible to conclude, to engage, to devote yourself, so all about negation of logic, morality, dignity. What stays is the inviting, the provoking, the joking of yourself, the world, even god.
    And believing as an expression of thankfulness for the precious and fragile and endangered gift of love, setting all the hope available into the "fact", that loss won't - in true, but irrational terms - mean just loss of love, but even in loss of love loss of loss itself, so that resurrection - in even more irrational terms - is, in the eyes of reality itself, a logical turn, a kind of wordless conclusion.
    Thanks for the video (Germany)

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    @soyivanv6609 Рік тому +3

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    Love these vids. Listening from kentucky love your tiktoks too

  • @blacksheep7370
    @blacksheep7370 Рік тому +1

    Can you do something on the intersectionality of eastern philosophy and Zizek thoughts.

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    @p.l.g.y.9434 Рік тому +1

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    @salahzarita3022 Рік тому

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  • @hediehsh4817
    @hediehsh4817 5 місяців тому

    This one is speechless

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    @jimmypk1353 Рік тому

    Love from Pakistan! ❤

  • @mauve9266
    @mauve9266 Рік тому

    22:50

  • @Vladimir-Struja
    @Vladimir-Struja Рік тому

    People on dating profile biographies often claim that they are authentic, when describing their character. Interestingly enough, those same people appear most inauthentic...

  • @markromine5103
    @markromine5103 Рік тому +2

    Excellent yt clickbait. Zizek on something with no Zizek. Noice.

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  Рік тому +1

      I’m sorry you felt that way, but this strikes me as unfair. I’ve posted more than 50 Žižek lectures to my channel, none of which include Žižek.

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  Рік тому +4

      But if it makes you happy I can change the title. How about ‘On Žižek’s theory of perfection?’ See new title. Hope that’s better.

  • @Majkels
    @Majkels Рік тому

    Are you formally educated in Philosophy?

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  Рік тому +5

      Yes and no. I didn’t do a degree in philosophy but did a BA in post colonial theory, an Ma in cultural studies, and a PhD in politics (theory and IR focused). But that’s actually quite a common trajectory for continental theorists

  • @talibaltib7280
    @talibaltib7280 Рік тому +2

    🇮🇶 iraq

  • @ime90
    @ime90 Рік тому

    Croatia

  • @ioscorn4865
    @ioscorn4865 Рік тому

    Nepal🇳🇵🤙

  • @joelmounts3336
    @joelmounts3336 Рік тому +2

    Came for the spit, was disappointed

  • @iliyaboyanov558
    @iliyaboyanov558 Рік тому +6

    Isn’t it 3 pounds and not 30 😂

    • @iliyaboyanov558
      @iliyaboyanov558 Рік тому +1

      With 3 you can empathise how you are closer to perfection and you should stay there close to the perfection barrier

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  Рік тому

      You’re right

    • @manueljohn456
      @manueljohn456 Рік тому +1

      I think it was 5 ;) but i feel like the difference between 3/5 and 30 is absolutely crucial. 30 pounds more or less is a world of difference in many regards, often with actual benefits, looks-wise and health-wise. Being 30 pounds overweight and wanting to lose some of that has nothing intrinsically to do with perfection, just with improvement. Wanting to lose 3/5 pounds, on the other hand... is exactly the chase for perfection that zizek is talking about.

  • @torbjornkarlsen
    @torbjornkarlsen 3 місяці тому

    Riveting stuff but the sound is really laggy. No doubt a clear sign of true perfection, but it is a little difficult to hear what you're saying.

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  3 місяці тому

      Just purchased a good mic and hoping to use it for the next lecture. Thanks for taking the time to watch!

  • @user-yt7zo3rf6d
    @user-yt7zo3rf6d Рік тому

    Belarus

  • @JimiFilo
    @JimiFilo 10 місяців тому

    Anything **curated** as an “aesthetic” cannot be “authentic”.

  • @Chrisjavier2604
    @Chrisjavier2604 Рік тому

    Leo davinci’s work is perfection, look at David, in this example thus does not apply

  • @mostaphaabdul-samed8573
    @mostaphaabdul-samed8573 Рік тому

    Iraq

  • @kestutisa3826
    @kestutisa3826 Рік тому +3

    fake Žižek