I find it very interesting that when Slavoj says “that’s a dogma of Hegel’s,” the auto-generated caption reads “that’s a dog mouth giggles” because, to put it in somewhat vulgar terms, and maybe you would agree, our current position should be to reject the idea that if my brain was wired to his I would already know what he meant to say and auto-captions would not be necessary and so on.
I love the exuberant, surreal quality of Slavoj's flow of ideas! Extremely, and positively, provocative of thought.And (or is it just me?) in the end, he actually makes a lot of sense! Wonderful intellectual stimulation. I'd love to see a discussion - or is that 'discussion'? between him and Kant! Have a few liters of smelling salts around, tho. Poor Kant!
22:35 *Hegelian pragmatism* “What comes afterwards is not some _cheap_ synthesis-reconciliation is precisely for Hegel reconciliation with the horror, the necessity of mistake.”
Unfortunately completely ignorant of even basic scientific knowledge. . Why his opinions on Viruses / pandemics should count for anything is a mystery.
According to him there are only two options : completely open borders or completely sealed borders . ? No politicians of either Right or Left have suggested either of those . And his interviewer lets it pass unchallenged !?
I love Zizek. But I admit that one must be willing to interrupt when speaking with him. Conversation with Zizek is like verbal wrestling, but it's certainly worth it.
@@MY-bc3qq I think people mistake it for arrogance on his part but at a certain level of intelligence the Master can* anticipate the students inquiry. He's not so much cutting you off as rechanneling your intuition into more profitable avenues. Most people can't formulate a really good question and in all fairness to the good Professor some of his questions were not very sophisticated. Its incredibly challenging to really dreg the depths of a mind like Zizeks - its why he often has to do it himself!
24:26 *Things will necessarily go wrong* “And Hegel is obsessed by this.. how? Here Hegel is anti-Kantian. Kant is the philosopher of inner intention-what matters is your moral intention. Hegel is almost exactly the opposite, he is a good pragmatic externalist-it doesn’t matter what you mean, the truth of your act is in its consequences. He says this.”
Actually, to be more precise, what Kant really said was that it is impossible to think of anything at all in the world, or indeed even beyond it, that could be considered good without limitation except a good will...
There's a paradox though, he needs a provocateur. The best interviewers are the ones who know to let him run on the leash till its completely disappeared and then gently even mockingly circle back. I've wondered what would happen if he interviewed himself - came up with both the questions and the answers! I'd pay good money to see it!
What a pleasure to watch Slavoj evidently enjoying the fact that he is debating with an actual philosopher who is not mesmerized by him to the point of letting him talk absolutely unrestrained. See how delighed he is to pose for once as a Slave to a (very fine, in my opinion) Master. Hegelian indeed :D
21:01 *From Marx back 2 Hegel* “[Marx thought] that we can have a unique historical agent, working class (or rather, communist party), which _knows objectively_ the history and can act in accordance with history. You do something and you _exactly_ know the historical meaning of it, what you are doing-Hegel _strictly_ prohibits this.”
What a deep and fast thinking mind like Zizek considers "very briefly" isn't what others might consider brief. LOL But that is to be expected when speaking of a philosophers on the level of Zizek.
11:30 *what is endangered today* “It’s literally that our everyday _normativity_ [...] is threatened so that literally the way that we behave now [...] is threatened.”
Pierre Bayard does not even mention Hegel in How toTalk about Books You Haven't Read. Zizek hasn't read Bayard's book but is talking about it anyway. :). .
@Historia Antiqua why are you erecting the strong man of a society where everyone is equal materially to argue against? Zizek has never posited this as an ideal. Also as I understand him (not just from this interview), He doesn’t believe in a utopia ever really existing ... but that we strive towards some vision of it in response to the mounting antagonisms of the present social system (new thesis). then out of the new thesis inevitably new antagonisms (antithesis) will arise out of it and so on and so on and so on....
What is within me is not shit. I have spent a lifetime of meditation and self-reflection to better myself by using rationality in a cognitive behavioral way, but it has no value because no one believes it. I am looking forward to the machines reading my mind.
At first I thought he could have answered much more interestingly about how covid would change society, people moving away from cities and so on and so on, but then he invoked Hagel and now I'm obliged to study Hagel.
Goodness, someone else felt and saw it! Most interviewers have no humility - just because you are interviewing someone does not mean your intellect matches his. I see it all the time ''Sir you've said this but I think . . . ." I want to say - what cares what YOU understood from reading Hegel - I did too and understood nothing of it!?! Let the man speak!
48:02 I am autistic. I wonder if people of this humanistic german idealism bent see autists as less human. Maybe autism in humans is the catalyst of what is becoming the new phase of humanity? I am a student of sociology so maybe I will be able to translate this to the language of the withering intelligentsia, in time. In one of his papers, when discussing the social change a neural link may introduce, Zizek writes: "However, what if language in all its clumsiness and simplifications generates the elusive wealth of our thoughts?" ... what does he say to that autistic professor, Temple Grandin, who proclaims that she does not think in language?
@@galek75 Aha, so it is a question of what value thoughts have in relation to action (and speech acts). Zizek have said that he does not care what people think as long as they act proper. I think the only thing that matters is what we think, as this is where intent lies.
@@z0uLess how is intent important on a societal scale? i do not give a shit what you want cuz wanting is just ideological theory while doing something can actually be evaluated by its consequences
This concept of 'the singularity' sounds like a spin off of what small, nascent human social societies/groups once had wrt understanding their common, life affirming interconnections. It is/was a form of what me might now call loving consciousness: an affiliation in isolation. In the far distant past, groups of human beings did live in relative isolation from other groups of humans because of the low numbers of humans. In BC alone, there were once 200 languages. This speaks to a highly developed interconnectedness of individual human families here on the west coast of North America 10 to 20,000 years ago.Today, various groups in "on-line isolation" (ie: Proud Boys, the Qanon maniacs and other Rump cultists) do attempt this sort of 'solidarity' on line, creating a world completely removed from what most of us acknowledge as simple reality. Technical singularity, I suppose, can be seen as that which links various actors on a global scale.The sensitivity of conscousness of early humans is, I think, what this concept of machine based 'singularity' harkens back to. It is difficult to know for sure whether to be terrified or not. Living in terror of those in power in the US has become a given, ever since the explosion of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The generation having children then and those of us born then, after "THE BOOM" of those existencial threats to all humankind, have endured it ever since. It is baked into our bones. Mantaining one's sanity and calm is very difficult - hence the ongoing mad rush to drug ourselves into some other, comforting state of consciousnes. Anyway, happy Sunday.
This is Žižek i respect the most. Be angry, be very angry. Hope he realize it's our own government, our military police authorities who are doing this to us and also that his balls wont get cut. You know, cut the balls, and so on and so on, now he is one of us now, when all major media gave up on his interpretations. Just joking, he'll be fine, his public service salary is so high because somebody must understand all this things.
Turns out Zizek is at his most expressive when he's on a webcam! The biggest problem with Zizek is that he's very intelligent, but he struggles to stay on the subject. He's goes a long way off subject to bring examples to his arguments.
Around minute 44 he mentions a study/analysis/paper about how lesser air pollution in china and india due to covid lockdown has caused stronger tornados in bangladesh etc. I didn't find it. Was anyone else more lucky?
As a thinker, he's a great fan of paradoxes. But everyday life functions based on decisions that slash through the circularity of aporias. I mean, we can reformulate our questions ad infinitum, but a crisis needs responses formulated as unambiguously as possible. Theorizing on the crisis, which he passionately does, is very different from solving the crisis, and not very helpful. Ideology does the job, and China proves it beyond doubt. It creates new problems, all right, but it solves the older ones. I think at the end of the day oversimplifying (ideology) is just as much of a pain as overcomplexifying (dialectical thinking).
@@nightoftheworld I know. But why is the state more effective at managing the world's problems then coordinated localized communities working together as one?
@@MADSattheworld because people want a social contract which functions relatively well-delivers to needs without having to be so constantly involved. In the words of Zizek “he prefers to be left alone to watch his movies and write his stupid books.”
@@nightoftheworld human nature isn't a fixed state. Zizek says he wants to be left alone to his books but that is precisely his role in helping society function. Through his writing. In the new society we would all naturally find our calling and voluntarily through love produce together what we need and desire as a collective humanity.
@@MADSattheworld no human nature isn’t a fixed state, it’s volatile and easily fractures into tribalism/hatred-which is why we need a strong state to effectively respond to the global crises on the way. Local love forging an organic space of inclusivity is very romantic, but it sounds like shit to me truthfully. I don’t want to have to relate to John and Jane, I just don’t honestly care about them or their Instagram journeys. I want to have the water flow out of my tap and the lights come on and not have to be broken out of my bubble world to sing along with the collective. It sounds somewhat like the psychic abuses currently happening with corporate culture.. “corporate kabuki”, where you have to avow your love for the company narrative and live behind a happy face mask. Sounds like that but in a confederal political container.. no thanks. I think peoples problem is their misunderstanding of the Western neighbor. The neighbor isn’t some lovable fellow man, but an alien traveler living in the wilderness of the dream. I prefer the alienating state/non-relation to the quasi-fascist ideals of new age love/positivity any day..
"Marx and Engels never used the term "dialectical materialism" in their works". Well, that is a half-truth F. Engels: "Marx and I were pretty well the only people to rescue *conscious* *dialectics* from German idealist philosophy and *apply* *it* *in* *the* *materialist* *conception* *of* *nature* *and* *history* . But a knowledge of mathematics and natural science is essential to a *conception* *of* *nature* which *is* *dialectical* *and* at the same time *materialist* " "... *modern* *materialism* *is* *essentially* *dialectic* , and no longer needs any philosophy standing above the other sciences" "Anti-Dühring", 1877
You are wrong. Marx and Engels were talking about historical materialism or the materialist conception of history. Dialectical materialism is a term coined by Dietzgen, and it was later popularized by Russian Marxists. Historical materialism and dialectical materialism are radically two different modes of analysis, even if they're based on the materialist approach.
@@LeonWagg Well, those are just quotes by Engels, from which it is clear that "dialectical" is a main (distinguishing) feature of Marx/Engels materialism. And it is exactly in Anti-Dürhing, where Engels explicitly substitutes adjectives "modern", "dialectical", "non-mechanical" before and after "materialism". "Historical materialism" is basically "a materialist conception of history" (Engels, "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"), therefore, historical materialism is a materialism applied to the historical knowledge. But when Engels discusses what kind of materialism is applied, he calls it "dialectic" in order to draw the line between the materialism of Marx/Engels and the materialism of the past (contemplative/mechanic/spontaneous/French etc). Marx himself wrote a preface to "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" in which Engels calls modern materialism "essentialy dialectic" (he repeats his quote from Anti-Dühring) and calls historical materialism "a materialist conception of history".
You are missing the point. Zizek and I are not saying that Marx and Engels didn't consider the dialectical method as materialistic, but the point is the term itself was not coined by them. The concept and the term were conceptualized after their death.
@@LeonWagg yes, but the term "dialectical materialism" doesn't pervert the idea of Marx and Engels in any way. This term might be called "historiographic" or kind of anachronistic, but it describes M/E materialism in the way which distinguishes it from all sorts of other materialisms. "Historical materialism" without "dialectical materialism" practically doesn't say anything, as you could apply Aristotelian materialism to historic knowledge and that wouldn't be helpful for the method at all. Of course, you could say "materialism of Marx and Engels", but that wouldn't be helpful (only more confusing) for method as well. That's why we call Ancient materialism "spontaneous", materialism of Feurbach - "contemplative", Marx/Engels materialism - "dialectical" (main feature of their materialism, indicated by Engels himself). There is nothing wrong with it. Also, calling their method simply "dialectical" without its relation to materialism would be way more wrong. "The mystification which dialectic suffers in Hegel's hands, by no means prevents him from being the first to present its general form of working in a comprehensive and conscious manner. With him it is standing on its head. It must be turned right side up again, if you would discover the rational kernel within the mystical shell" - K. Marx, 1873, Capital, Vol. I, Afterword
A dream for some, an impossibility to others, that is, if only the Stats could speak for themselves or be seen at all. As I hear it's physically impossible meet everyone in the world. But I digress.
@@davyroger3773 there is no such thing as a seperate nature. we are part of our environment and ideology creates our realities thus any essentialisation of perception is to propaganda
Only one word describes this supposed “innovation” of mind reading as pathetic. Unimpressive stems from toxicity there’s nothing genius about it. Men understand this as immature boys club and refuse to give it any attention at all it’s not even up for discussion. The most basic foundation is that these supposed “innovators” were never made to stay in their room and entertain themselves they were allowed to galavant and monopolize time, as extremely self-absorbed no discipline. Nothing to offer the species it’s redundancy unto itself or ‘own worst enemy’ it’s simply unattractive as disgusting stupid nonsense. Hawking had a need for it, nothing more. Toxicity is the wanting of humiliations an UNDERMINING (HOW you know there’s nothing “genius” about it) in which manipulative species dishonours, discredits, assaults its jealousies as inferior. As for “political correctness” it’s only a form of selfish manipulation for control that’s easy to see. As I once said to a violent female “all your fight for control means is that you don’t have what it takes to survive me.” Technically, doesn’t strive to survive the energy is dependent or self-destructive.
George Orwell was right ! ( as usual ). " There are certain opinions so ridiculous that only an intellectual could believe them. No ordinary person could be so stupid ". Amazing how he anticipated Zizek !
Zizek made a mistake in learning the definition of singularity. Singularity is the event when we create a machine that is powerful enough to create machines smarter than itself. I'm sure BMI could lead to the singularity but it's not a necessary condition for such an event to occur.
I enjoyed this interview because the interviewer had the courage to interrupt when necessary. But that being said, he had all the personality of a dead fish.
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I find it very interesting that when Slavoj says “that’s a dogma of Hegel’s,” the auto-generated caption reads “that’s a dog mouth giggles” because, to put it in somewhat vulgar terms, and maybe you would agree, our current position should be to reject the idea that if my brain was wired to his I would already know what he meant to say and auto-captions would not be necessary and so on.
I love the exuberant, surreal quality of Slavoj's flow of ideas! Extremely, and positively, provocative of thought.And (or is it just me?) in the end, he actually makes a lot of sense! Wonderful intellectual stimulation. I'd love to see a discussion - or is that 'discussion'? between him and Kant! Have a few liters of smelling salts around, tho. Poor Kant!
Just repeating the same old shit
22:35 *Hegelian pragmatism* “What comes afterwards is not some _cheap_ synthesis-reconciliation is precisely for Hegel reconciliation with the horror, the necessity of mistake.”
Zikek, mind on fire, hyper and waiting to release information to the world, genuine admiration for these old school thought provoking thinkers
But imagine being interconnected via neural link with people whose brains spit out this much information! :)
Unfortunately completely ignorant
of even basic scientific knowledge. . Why his opinions on
Viruses / pandemics should count for anything is a mystery.
According to him there are only
two options : completely open borders or completely sealed borders . ? No politicians of either Right or Left have suggested either of those . And his interviewer lets it pass unchallenged !?
Can the community sponsor a professional microphone for Mr. Zizek so these interviews become more audible? ;)
The sound quality of Zizek speaking has actually grown on me
probably a special made microphone that filters out his snoozes XD
easier to avoid algorithmic censoring
It's less about his mic and more about the space he's in. Sounds and looks like a small conference room with all hard surfaces.
@@penelopemace922 good idea
8 minutes in, I love the fact that Zizek is being interrupted with good questions.
I love Zizek. But I admit that one must be willing to interrupt when speaking with him. Conversation with Zizek is like verbal wrestling, but it's certainly worth it.
Yes, makes a good change to letting him ramble.
would argue against the "good questions" part. The host clearly has answers in mind before asking them.
@@MY-bc3qq Yes, I liked that though.
@@MY-bc3qq I think people mistake it for arrogance on his part but at a certain level of intelligence the Master can* anticipate the students inquiry. He's not so much cutting you off as rechanneling your intuition into more profitable avenues. Most people can't formulate a really good question and in all fairness to the good Professor some of his questions were not very sophisticated. Its incredibly challenging to really dreg the depths of a mind like Zizeks - its why he often has to do it himself!
24:26 *Things will necessarily go wrong* “And Hegel is obsessed by this.. how? Here Hegel is anti-Kantian. Kant is the philosopher of inner intention-what matters is your moral intention. Hegel is almost exactly the opposite, he is a good pragmatic externalist-it doesn’t matter what you mean, the truth of your act is in its consequences. He says this.”
Actually, to be more precise, what Kant really said was that it is impossible to think of anything at all in the world, or indeed even beyond it, that could be considered good without limitation except a good will...
Yes. A good will is more complex -- and is necessary, but never sufficient, to make an act that proceeds from it good. Kant was not a ninny.
46:42 *”materialism without matter”*
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Constantly interrupting him and sticking to a time table ruins it, Zizek is at his best when he talks on and on
so on and so on*
There's a paradox though, he needs a provocateur. The best interviewers are the ones who know to let him run on the leash till its completely disappeared and then gently even mockingly circle back. I've wondered what would happen if he interviewed himself - came up with both the questions and the answers! I'd pay good money to see it!
@@Kobe29261 He needs his own podcast
@@Kobe29261 Like a true hegelian, he cannot live without negativity
What a pleasure to watch Slavoj evidently enjoying the fact that he is debating with an actual philosopher who is not mesmerized by him to the point of letting him talk absolutely unrestrained. See how delighed he is to pose for once as a Slave to a (very fine, in my opinion) Master. Hegelian indeed :D
Yeah i enjoyed it too
21:01 *From Marx back 2 Hegel* “[Marx thought] that we can have a unique historical agent, working class (or rather, communist party), which _knows objectively_ the history and can act in accordance with history. You do something and you _exactly_ know the historical meaning of it, what you are doing-Hegel _strictly_ prohibits this.”
The final joke was amazing. It was worthy of the final.
With the greatest possible respect for Zizek, he should consider dropping this phrase from his lexicon: "very briefly.."
He's doing that consciously and ironically. He occasionally mentions that he's copying from Fidel Castro.
What a deep and fast thinking mind like Zizek considers "very briefly" isn't what others might consider brief. LOL But that is to be expected when speaking of a philosophers on the level of Zizek.
lol! :D
Hello and Thanks for the interview Zizek in his best form👏👏👏👏
18:43 *Reconciliation?* “I read Hegel’s dialectic as being about _sameness in difference,_ whereas you emphasize _difference in sameness.”_
That doesn't mean anything, night of the world.
@@coreycox2345 does the difference between “I think therefore I am” and “I am therefore I think” not mean anything?
@@nightoftheworld Not to me.
@@coreycox2345 well it did to Nietzsche and Descartes..
@@coreycox2345 hegelians are probably irrelevant after deuleze and guitarri but i think you should know philosophy when you engage with it
11:30 *what is endangered today* “It’s literally that our everyday _normativity_ [...] is threatened so that literally the way that we behave now [...] is threatened.”
13:00 “how to talk about books that you haven’t read”
:)
Pan(dem)ic! is very short.
Pierre Bayard does not even mention Hegel in How toTalk about Books You Haven't Read. Zizek hasn't read Bayard's book but is talking about it anyway. :). .
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@Historia Antiqua why are you erecting the strong man of a society where everyone is equal materially to argue against? Zizek has never posited this as an ideal. Also as I understand him (not just from this interview), He doesn’t believe in a utopia ever really existing ... but that we strive towards some vision of it in response to the mounting antagonisms of the present social system (new thesis). then out of the new thesis inevitably new antagonisms (antithesis) will arise out of it and so on and so on and so on....
Zizek: Covid you have no life!
Covid: 😢
How do you tame Zizek?
Well he sometimes asks for a dominatrix but anyway lets go on....
Futile
I love his untameness. Be ungovernable.
Slavoj Zizek turns simple things into mysteries.
Purposefully.
exactly the opposite actually. all his philosophy is about that there is nothing behind appearance.
@@ObeySilence he grounds appearance with certain sublime ideas
@@ObeySilence nothing behind appearance but spirit
omg that first cut to Zz, I'm dying
😜
52:40
Zizek What is within us is -- SHIT !
Interviewer: ...uhh...heheh, thank you....uhh...
What is within me is not shit. I have spent a lifetime of meditation and self-reflection to better myself by using rationality in a cognitive behavioral way, but it has no value because no one believes it. I am looking forward to the machines reading my mind.
@@z0uLess a lifetime of self reflection and still you manage to sound like an ass
@@scooldrood he was meditating on shit
@@gandheeznuts4893 he should meditate some bitches
@@scooldrood 🤣🤣🤣
love slavoj
Love his ideas but I wish he would get a good mic for these interviews
And so on and so on..
QUALITY CONTENT
At first I thought he could have answered much more interestingly about how covid would change society, people moving away from cities and so on and so on, but then he invoked Hagel and now I'm obliged to study Hagel.
Why is this video unlisted?
Zizek is better freestyle. It's not particularly interesting to learn that the interviewer's concept of Hegel doesn't line up with Zizek's.
Goodness, someone else felt and saw it! Most interviewers have no humility - just because you are interviewing someone does not mean your intellect matches his. I see it all the time ''Sir you've said this but I think . . . ." I want to say - what cares what YOU understood from reading Hegel - I did too and understood nothing of it!?! Let the man speak!
Great show show!
Love it! Slovoj is fearless into the madness of being..... delicious.
Love to listen to his brain is soooo correct!
Interviewer almost grinding his teeth in frustration. Great fun.
lol
I like him.
Can you ask Zizek: did he watch Borat?
48:02 I am autistic. I wonder if people of this humanistic german idealism bent see autists as less human. Maybe autism in humans is the catalyst of what is becoming the new phase of humanity? I am a student of sociology so maybe I will be able to translate this to the language of the withering intelligentsia, in time.
In one of his papers, when discussing the social change a neural link may introduce, Zizek writes: "However, what if language in all its clumsiness and
simplifications generates the elusive wealth of our thoughts?" ... what does he say to that autistic professor, Temple Grandin, who proclaims that she does not think in language?
Grandin still has to communicate via language, nevermind what kind of 'private' conceptual scheme she deploys.
@@galek75 Aha, so it is a question of what value thoughts have in relation to action (and speech acts). Zizek have said that he does not care what people think as long as they act proper. I think the only thing that matters is what we think, as this is where intent lies.
@@z0uLess how is intent important on a societal scale? i do not give a shit what you want cuz wanting is just ideological theory while doing something can actually be evaluated by its consequences
@@fafo867 Because alligning peoples wants with the societal systems must be considered a positive by the leading moral theories, like utilitarianism.
@@z0uLess i am not a utilitarian. i want to increase life and power.
also not down with being aligned with the state power hegemony
45:10 "As my good friends, idiots, used to say..." :)
I would.love.to.listen.to.Zizek talking about the Capitol.
I would too. And Garth Brooks singing Amazing Grace at the inauguration. That felt like Ludwig Van, to me...
He wrote an article about the capitol in Russia Today.
Bravo sir, excellent work... get Zizek a better mic
Is it just me, or is Mr. Slavoj schooling the interviewer in a very indirect and modest way?
I didnt see this at all, the interviewer is guiding him into new questions like an actual interview than just another online lecture.
The sound is not great...
why cant these appearances be 8 hours long or so
This concept of 'the singularity' sounds like a spin off of what small, nascent human social societies/groups once had wrt understanding their common, life affirming interconnections. It is/was a form of what me might now call loving consciousness: an affiliation in isolation. In the far distant past, groups of human beings did live in relative isolation from other groups of humans because of the low numbers of humans. In BC alone, there were once 200 languages. This speaks to a highly developed interconnectedness of individual human families here on the west coast of North America 10 to 20,000 years ago.Today, various groups in "on-line isolation" (ie: Proud Boys, the Qanon maniacs and other Rump cultists) do attempt this sort of 'solidarity' on line, creating a world completely removed from what most of us acknowledge as simple reality. Technical singularity, I suppose, can be seen as that which links various actors on a global scale.The sensitivity of conscousness of early humans is, I think, what this concept of machine based 'singularity' harkens back to. It is difficult to know for sure whether to be terrified or not. Living in terror of those in power in the US has become a given, ever since the explosion of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The generation having children then and those of us born then, after "THE BOOM" of those existencial threats to all humankind, have endured it ever since. It is baked into our bones. Mantaining one's sanity and calm is very difficult - hence the ongoing mad rush to drug ourselves into some other, comforting state of consciousnes. Anyway, happy Sunday.
does zizek do audiobooks?
I can only imagine how that would turn out lol
@@davyroger3773 I’d pay good money for them
If I may put it in slightly but still tolerably terms if nature is our mother it's a bitch of a mother
Slavoj is too gracious to correct the interviewer, so I will. His name is pronounced Slavoj, exactly as written, not Shlyavoj.
Shlahdjehnxirjajov
Pronunciation is meaningless
the stalin joke kills lmfao
This is Žižek i respect the most. Be angry, be very angry.
Hope he realize it's our own government, our military police authorities who are doing this to us and also that his balls wont get cut. You know, cut the balls, and so on and so on, now he is one of us now, when all major media gave up on his interpretations. Just joking, he'll be fine, his public service salary is so high because somebody must understand all this things.
Turns out Zizek is at his most expressive when he's on a webcam!
The biggest problem with Zizek is that he's very intelligent, but he struggles to stay on the subject. He's goes a long way off subject to bring examples to his arguments.
There is not a problem. If you can't follow his thoughts you are just dumb. Being concise should be considered a good thing
@@rohxn6988...thats the point, he's not concise. He loses his train of thought.
Slavoj rescues entertainment
Around minute 44 he mentions a study/analysis/paper about how lesser air pollution in china and india due to covid lockdown has caused stronger tornados in bangladesh etc. I didn't find it. Was anyone else more lucky?
0:23 he really doesn't give a fuck whatsoever, 🤣🤣🤣
I heard a mother on the way to school tell her boy 'The virus doesn't have a brain but it is very very clever'. Is there any hope for us at all?
kids are pretty stupid so i guess the mom was just to lazy to explain
As a thinker, he's a great fan of paradoxes. But everyday life functions based on decisions that slash through the circularity of aporias. I mean, we can reformulate our questions ad infinitum, but a crisis needs responses formulated as unambiguously as possible. Theorizing on the crisis, which he passionately does, is very different from solving the crisis, and not very helpful. Ideology does the job, and China proves it beyond doubt. It creates new problems, all right, but it solves the older ones. I think at the end of the day oversimplifying (ideology) is just as much of a pain as overcomplexifying (dialectical thinking).
...... Playing Reggae BY HYPPIES!!!!
Let's just consider the lab leak hypothesis, which has the strongest evidence behind it. Maybe there is a "new age" message there.
I love Zizek. Only critique of his is tendency it seems to be against anarchist ideas.
It sees the state as an effective administrative mechanism with which to manage the global crises of climate/biogenetics/refugees
@@nightoftheworld I know. But why is the state more effective at managing the world's problems then coordinated localized communities working together as one?
@@MADSattheworld because people want a social contract which functions relatively well-delivers to needs without having to be so constantly involved. In the words of Zizek “he prefers to be left alone to watch his movies and write his stupid books.”
@@nightoftheworld human nature isn't a fixed state. Zizek says he wants to be left alone to his books but that is precisely his role in helping society function. Through his writing. In the new society we would all naturally find our calling and voluntarily through love produce together what we need and desire as a collective humanity.
@@MADSattheworld no human nature isn’t a fixed state, it’s volatile and easily fractures into tribalism/hatred-which is why we need a strong state to effectively respond to the global crises on the way.
Local love forging an organic space of inclusivity is very romantic, but it sounds like shit to me truthfully. I don’t want to have to relate to John and Jane, I just don’t honestly care about them or their Instagram journeys. I want to have the water flow out of my tap and the lights come on and not have to be broken out of my bubble world to sing along with the collective.
It sounds somewhat like the psychic abuses currently happening with corporate culture.. “corporate kabuki”, where you have to avow your love for the company narrative and live behind a happy face mask. Sounds like that but in a confederal political container.. no thanks.
I think peoples problem is their misunderstanding of the Western neighbor. The neighbor isn’t some lovable fellow man, but an alien traveler living in the wilderness of the dream. I prefer the alienating state/non-relation to the quasi-fascist ideals of new age love/positivity any day..
I do not want to be accused of Paralogical determinism, or is it Biological Determinism?
Interviewer: let's talk about your new book on hagel
Slavoy: 17:33 (DOLLAR SIGNS)
"If nature is our mother then she's a nasty bitch of a mother.." Could'nt have said it better myself!
"Marx and Engels never used the term "dialectical materialism" in their works".
Well, that is a half-truth
F. Engels:
"Marx and I were pretty well the only people to rescue *conscious* *dialectics* from German idealist philosophy and *apply* *it* *in* *the* *materialist* *conception* *of* *nature* *and* *history* . But a knowledge of mathematics and natural science is essential to a *conception* *of* *nature* which *is* *dialectical* *and* at the same time *materialist* "
"... *modern* *materialism* *is* *essentially* *dialectic* , and no longer needs any philosophy standing above the other sciences"
"Anti-Dühring", 1877
You are wrong. Marx and Engels were talking about historical materialism or the materialist conception of history. Dialectical materialism is a term coined by Dietzgen, and it was later popularized by Russian Marxists. Historical materialism and dialectical materialism are radically two different modes of analysis, even if they're based on the materialist approach.
@@LeonWagg Well, those are just quotes by Engels, from which it is clear that "dialectical" is a main (distinguishing) feature of Marx/Engels materialism. And it is exactly in Anti-Dürhing, where Engels explicitly substitutes adjectives "modern", "dialectical", "non-mechanical" before and after "materialism". "Historical materialism" is basically "a materialist conception of history" (Engels, "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"), therefore, historical materialism is a materialism applied to the historical knowledge. But when Engels discusses what kind of materialism is applied, he calls it "dialectic" in order to draw the line between the materialism of Marx/Engels and the materialism of the past (contemplative/mechanic/spontaneous/French etc). Marx himself wrote a preface to "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" in which Engels calls modern materialism "essentialy dialectic" (he repeats his quote from Anti-Dühring) and calls historical materialism "a materialist conception of history".
You are missing the point. Zizek and I are not saying that Marx and Engels didn't consider the dialectical method as materialistic, but the point is the term itself was not coined by them. The concept and the term were conceptualized after their death.
@@LeonWagg yes, but the term "dialectical materialism" doesn't pervert the idea of Marx and Engels in any way. This term might be called "historiographic" or kind of anachronistic, but it describes M/E materialism in the way which distinguishes it from all sorts of other materialisms. "Historical materialism" without "dialectical materialism" practically doesn't say anything, as you could apply Aristotelian materialism to historic knowledge and that wouldn't be helpful for the method at all. Of course, you could say "materialism of Marx and Engels", but that wouldn't be helpful (only more confusing) for method as well. That's why we call Ancient materialism "spontaneous", materialism of Feurbach - "contemplative", Marx/Engels materialism - "dialectical" (main feature of their materialism, indicated by Engels himself). There is nothing wrong with it. Also, calling their method simply "dialectical" without its relation to materialism would be way more wrong.
"The mystification which dialectic suffers in Hegel's hands, by no means prevents him from being the first to present its general form of working in a comprehensive and conscious manner. With him it is standing on its head. It must be turned right side up again, if you would discover the rational kernel within the mystical shell" - K. Marx, 1873, Capital, Vol. I, Afterword
@@timatoppinen Aristotelian materialism? You are ignorant of Aristotle's philosophy: Aristotle teaches hylomorphism.
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Jeeeezzz he dame near lost an eye a few hand flying times. Other than that way to go great talk....
Shake out these thoughts forming words out of a burning brain.
Yes, of course -- the very existence of coal and oil is the result of unimaginable catastrophes.
Common Sense shall eventually bring philosophy to each if we "listen"!
A dream for some, an impossibility to others, that is, if only the Stats could speak for themselves or be seen at all. As I hear it's physically impossible meet everyone in the world. But I digress.
“What is within us is shit”
Spoiler alert, he criticize book he haven't read.
It works best for books people are reading all the time, so he should use Bible often as an example.
Hes getting old, hopefully hes doing ok.
To be honest he's aged really well. He has looked like 55 for the last 20 years
No booze no drugs no cigs. His Achilles heel is sugar...
A real thinker should be more bald than Zizek. This is suspicious.
Sorcery
@@davyroger3773 Maybe, however, sorcerers lack the black bile of true meloncholy.
I define propaganda as an effort my someone to tell us how or what to think.
@Simply Human : Your parents implanted first traces of propaganda to your brain . . .
They call it education .•°
By that definition nature and the environment is the ultimate propagandist
@@davyroger3773 you couldn't be more beside the point °•.
@@davyroger3773 there is no such thing as a seperate nature. we are part of our environment and ideology creates our realities thus any essentialisation of perception is to propaganda
Whose the stiff?
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Slavoj (not Shlavoj)
Stfu Paul
It’s all happenstance ~ Chinese Government
Wow
Difficult to follow this guy
Has Slavoj Zizek ever donated blood?
This isn't a good interviewer for zizek
My friend, there are no good interviewers for Zizek. Up in the clouds where he dwells, few human lungs can endure the hypoxia!
I like zizek but found this unbearable...
This guy should question a physics conference inst
Only one word describes this supposed “innovation” of mind reading as pathetic.
Unimpressive stems from toxicity there’s nothing genius about it. Men understand this as immature boys club and refuse to give it any attention at all it’s not even up for discussion.
The most basic foundation is that these supposed “innovators” were never made to stay in their room and entertain themselves they were allowed to galavant and monopolize time, as extremely self-absorbed no discipline. Nothing to offer the species it’s redundancy unto itself or ‘own worst enemy’ it’s simply unattractive as disgusting stupid nonsense.
Hawking had a need for it, nothing more. Toxicity is the wanting of humiliations an UNDERMINING (HOW you know there’s nothing “genius” about it) in which manipulative species dishonours, discredits, assaults its jealousies as inferior.
As for “political correctness” it’s only a form of selfish manipulation for control that’s easy to see. As I once said to a violent female “all your fight for control means is that you don’t have what it takes to survive me.” Technically, doesn’t strive to survive the energy is dependent or self-destructive.
George Orwell was right ! ( as usual ). " There are certain opinions so ridiculous
that only an intellectual could believe them. No ordinary person could be so
stupid ". Amazing how he anticipated Zizek !
what a well elaborated, precise and reasoned point you got there mate
0:24 is all you need to take away from this pseudo-radical gibberish.
If you cant help me than I cant help myself.
Zizek made a mistake in learning the definition of singularity.
Singularity is the event when we create a machine that is powerful enough to create machines smarter than itself.
I'm sure BMI could lead to the singularity but it's not a necessary condition for such an event to occur.
Old interview re-uploaded. Dislike.
Life as a bio-chemical phenomenon. lol
Do you love me?
I enjoyed this interview because the interviewer had the courage to interrupt when necessary. But that being said, he had all the personality of a dead fish.
Hey Zizek guess what. Trump was right it came from CHY NA
clown
Reactionary communism of Slavoj Zizek