Slavoj Žižek: FOR A LEFT THAT DARES TO SPEAK ITS NAME - October 8, 2019

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  • @aikitechniques1187
    @aikitechniques1187 5 років тому +174

    I don't know if Zizek is becoming more coherent or I'm finally beginning to get my head around his key themes, but that's a enlightening lecture.

    • @twoboxtoofurious
      @twoboxtoofurious 5 років тому +5

      lol. I absolutely agre. I even feel corageous enough to try again and read How to read lacan (by Zizek)

    • @Thewonderingminds
      @Thewonderingminds 5 років тому

      attended masterclass

    • @debralegorreta1375
      @debralegorreta1375 5 років тому

      lol

    • @nightoftheworld
      @nightoftheworld 5 років тому +1

      oisin bourke Monstrosity of Christ and his Holberg ‘Why I am still a Communist” are as well.

    • @sous-titreenfrancais8471
      @sous-titreenfrancais8471 5 років тому +3

      yes ! il ne le dit pas mais on entend qu'il infléchit et subsume ("aufhebung" hégélienne) parfois son propos suite à des discussions avec des contradicteurs : Zizek est hégélien en acte !

  • @XXBloodyElle
    @XXBloodyElle 5 років тому +40

    Starts at 7:35

  • @almafernandez7468
    @almafernandez7468 5 років тому +46

    When I read In defense of intolerance was revealing, the idea of ​​multiculturalism as a hegemonic ideology that denies the political is extremely interesting. Thank you for making this speech possible. Love from Mexico!

    • @ethanstump
      @ethanstump 3 роки тому +4

      Marx himself stated that capitalism spreads multiculturalism. specifically from the communist manifesto: "
      The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world market given a
      cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country.
      To the great chagrin of Reactionists, it has drawn from under the feet of
      industry the national ground on which it stood. All old-established
      national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed.
      They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life
      and death question for all civilised nations, by industries that no longer
      work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the
      remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at
      home, but in every quarter of the globe. In place of the old wants,
      satisfied by the production of the country, we find new wants, requiring
      for their satisfaction the products of distant lands and climes. In place of
      the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have
      intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations. And
      as in material, so also in intellectual production. The intellectual creations
      of individual nations become common property. National one-sidedness
      and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from
      the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature.
      and as communists, we know that this woke imperialism denies the political reality of the working class.

  • @vitoroliveirajorge368
    @vitoroliveirajorge368 5 років тому +80

    Last book by Zizek, "Sex and Failed Absolute" is a masterpiece. But all his philosophical work is fundamental. Those who only watch videos of his interventions do not know his actual importance in philosophy. His contribution is crucial.

    • @shonagraham2752
      @shonagraham2752 5 років тому +2

      No it isn't I suggest you read other books lol!

    • @OH-pc5jx
      @OH-pc5jx 5 років тому +6

      Vitor Oliveira Jorge I’m hoping to slowly work my way up to reading his heavy theoretical work because I can see the weight and power of his ideas through his popular work, but I really struggle to penetrate it without an extensive prior knowledge of Hegel and Lacan

    • @benjammin6692
      @benjammin6692 5 років тому +1

      That's true.

    • @jamess-shaw5464
      @jamess-shaw5464 5 років тому +6

      bruh I ain't smart enough for that shit

    • @evanmcarthur478
      @evanmcarthur478 5 років тому +5

      After years of listening to him, I tried to read the “The Monstrosity of Christ ” great book but I couldn’t get through the whole thing. Then I bought “Trouble in Paradise”, and read the whole thing. His lectures prepared me to get through a book of his, I thought I would never be able to read a book of his, book I got a little smarter and did it!
      His lectures really don’t do him justice.

  • @michaelobama736
    @michaelobama736 5 років тому +18

    GOTTA LOVE ZIZEK

  • @donacatanguma
    @donacatanguma 4 роки тому +5

    Outstanding !!! Thank you to Slavoj and all participants ☮️💚🌻💪🏼🕊

  • @jcrass2361
    @jcrass2361 5 років тому +32

    His point about times being just before ww1, is pretty spot on. Never thought about that.
    Also, subscribed to the channel. Looks very interesting.

    • @solmyr42
      @solmyr42 5 років тому +3

      That is almost too scary to contemplate

  • @SamuelHulick
    @SamuelHulick 5 років тому +8

    Actually starts at 7:43

  • @99nej
    @99nej 5 років тому +4

    This is brilliant, thank you for uploading!

  • @littlesigh
    @littlesigh 5 років тому +9

    I have listened to many of Slavoj's videos over the past few years and this is one of the top 3 if not the best. EXCELLENT! Thanks for posting. PS. If there is a plan to get a Psychologist into the White House then I vote for Slavoj Zizek !!!!

  • @tuffghost874
    @tuffghost874 5 років тому +3

    Thanks for making this happen, much much love from Mexico

  • @johnnada6831
    @johnnada6831 5 років тому +98

    Žižek becomes both better and better and also more and more disjointed.
    Also funny to hear that his son shows him the dark web...

    • @eidsongregory5795
      @eidsongregory5795 5 років тому +3

      interesting point on dismemberment / disjointedness (it reminds me of what John Cage said about language that needs to become more arthritic)

    • @FedeKai95
      @FedeKai95 5 років тому +1

      @@eidsongregory5795 what does disjointed mean? Not an english speaker here.

    • @Tokagawa89
      @Tokagawa89 5 років тому +4

      @@FedeKai95 It means lacking ordinary sequence, pretty much kinda making the point he'll make points you wont normally put together when talking about the political subjects he speaks about.

    • @johnnybourgeois13
      @johnnybourgeois13 5 років тому +10

      The world is disjointed. Any attempt to describe it, reflect it or make a credible model of it, must take that into account. The discourse is a reflection of the background culture and it's underlying material order.
      And as he often says, philosophy cannot provide easy answers, it's more important task or function is to ask the right questions.

    • @benjammin6692
      @benjammin6692 5 років тому +2

      @Monetizing Dossent are you a philosopher? You sound credible and it would not surprise. Who can take on Zizek today? And by that I mean debate with him fully and dispassionately about the same subjects he takes on

  • @joontheory
    @joontheory 5 років тому +1

    Thank you for obviously going over time with the QnA session.

  • @aboxintheblack9530
    @aboxintheblack9530 5 років тому +32

    That Black Panther quote was spot on.

    • @aboxintheblack9530
      @aboxintheblack9530 5 років тому +9

      1:02:29

    • @cjweston228
      @cjweston228 5 років тому +4

      I found the book where Newton and Erikson's conversation was transcribed at my school's library. I scanned Newton's chapter-- lemme know if you want it ;p

    • @lxjunius9276
      @lxjunius9276 5 років тому +1

      aO102 I do, please!
      My e-mail: andre.andrea23lf@gmail.com

    • @l.w.paradis2108
      @l.w.paradis2108 3 роки тому

      @@aboxintheblack9530 Now I understand the game the neoliberals play, and also why it does not work on Zizek on an emotional level (why it doesn't work intellectually is obvious): the neoliberals set up a little checkmate where everyone is too afraid to challenge identity politics lest they be suspected -- by everyone -- of secret racism. No argument will be listened to; the insinuation will stick. Once it does, it is ruinous.
      Of course they can't pull that on Zizek. He doesn't make his home in the West.

  • @maratonec5
    @maratonec5 5 років тому +8

    thanks, great content

  • @TheRottenCheese
    @TheRottenCheese 5 років тому +33

    Slavoj has a flip phone. Lmao.

  • @jpdalvi
    @jpdalvi 5 років тому +6

    This title is also the title of a book written by Brazilian philosopher Vladimir safatle, published in 2011

  • @nightoftheworld
    @nightoftheworld 5 років тому +20

    10:26 “This is the permanent point that I repeat obsessively-and I think that’s what we need today in our political moment. We don’t need _geniuses_ there are enough of geniuses. Your president _beloved_ Donald Trump, he regularly designates himself as a stable genius I think, you know. We need what Kirkegaard called the opposition to genius: *apostle* . You are just a bearer of truth, you repeat again and again the same point. We need women who display toxic masculinity.”

  • @l.w.paradis2108
    @l.w.paradis2108 3 роки тому +1

    Huey Newton and Erik Erikson's dialogue is available in libraries in lots of places. Just ordered it, can hardly wait!

  • @wrichik
    @wrichik 5 років тому +63

    7:42

  • @Life_Of_Mine_
    @Life_Of_Mine_ 3 роки тому +2

    The best Zizek video. I wish there were people I could sit, talk, and wonder about with the what-the-fuckness of this world.

  • @jcrass2361
    @jcrass2361 5 років тому +8

    The last couple mins of his talk is really great, “don’t be afraid to be a true leftist.” Against all criticisms, let’s change this shit for the better.

  • @cow_tools_
    @cow_tools_ 5 років тому +3

    Lets have an event with both Slavoj Zizek and Angela Nagle.

  • @afkaqualls
    @afkaqualls 5 років тому +9

    Around 01:30:00 the most important message is expressed.
    Summary: the market cannot handle our Global problems nor can the state. What communism offers is a third point of reference. That of a Transcendent body which occupies a field outside of the market and of the state, and which finds ways to deal with these Global problems.

    • @afkaqualls
      @afkaqualls 5 років тому +2

      In this sense humanity is a divided subject. That we represent ourselves through abstractions, that is in one way the market and another way the state. Perhaps what we need is the concept of the Third position, which is the Communist position. And in order for this position to have any effect, it must gain power.

    • @AlanDeAnda1
      @AlanDeAnda1 5 років тому +1

      Excuse me amigo, you're saying nonsense things. Market-State is a false dychotomy in the sense of both always exist in big or small magnitudes and complement each other. Think about ancient Egipt or ancient Mesopotamia, even ancient Mexico. Markets existed parallel to a state which intervened in a certain way on it. In terms of a large purchase of iron for weapons in wartimes or large ammounts of food and ornaments in festive days. So, you're saying communism is a total distinct way of market and state!? C'mon.

    • @afkaqualls
      @afkaqualls 5 років тому +2

      @@AlanDeAnda1 I never said the market and state are complementary. I said that we create abstract concepts, such as market and state, to mediate social relations. Family is another. Home. Work. A City. A Nation. These aren't real things as much as they are virtual ideas that organize interactions between people and things. I'm not diefying any of these concepts as necessary or natural. I'm saying that what Slavoj is describing is a way of solidifying a functional communist concept such that it occupies the global consciousness and translates into a globe-wide structural power which can challenge these other existing structural powers.
      So what is the strong, globally translatable Communist concept that will generate significant conditions which becomes a structural challenge to the mesh of concepts (not just market or state) that alter the real ontologically contiguous conditions of living?

  • @Cara-aa
    @Cara-aa 4 роки тому +1

    OMG, I know all those four people, they were all my professors, and of course, I saw Zizek many times.

  • @albdruck2575
    @albdruck2575 4 роки тому +4

    21:02 extremely rare "you on"

  • @Corgifunni
    @Corgifunni 5 років тому +3

    oh my god kurosawa's hamlet was perfect

  • @mercmer....
    @mercmer.... 3 роки тому +1

    Žižek⭐

  • @lunaridge4510
    @lunaridge4510 5 років тому +4

    Regarding the “eminent antagonism” of the position that transsexuals confirm the essentialism/biological determinism of the gender identity in patriarchal society rather than fight against it and/or become a true incarnation of the fluidity of the “gender roles”-sorry, Slavoj but it was Germaine Greer who had made this point a while ago and, sadly, still suffers the consequences of pointing this contradiction out, that is, being constantly abused and called stupid names.

    • @abataaoigami6715
      @abataaoigami6715 4 роки тому

      I still think sexual and gender fluidity are fundamental concepts.

  • @fromeveryting29
    @fromeveryting29 5 років тому +2

    28:20 note to self about freedom

  • @Anonimo-tb6ge
    @Anonimo-tb6ge 5 років тому +6

    Yes, a new idea of materialism is needed. Hopefilly, spanish philosopher
    Gustavo Bueno created a full system (yeah, full system like Hegel)
    named "Philosophical Materialism", based on
    1. Materialism is plural (against monism)
    2. Plato's Symploké concept
    3. Idealism and spirits is just pure metaphisics (pseudo-ideas)
    One
    of its biggest works is "Sciences as categorical closures"
    (www.helicon.es/pen/7848542.htm) in which offers a theory of
    sciences and solves the epistemic problem by including epistemology
    inside gnoseology. Also is to mention his
    ontological theory named "doctrine of the 3 ontological materialisms", quite important!
    Plz,
    accept my apologies for not going further into this "plural
    materialism", but It would be stupid to try to summarise his enormous
    work.
    When you discover him and start reading, its a really
    mind-fuck. The guy is (actually, "he was" as he died 2 years ago) so
    brilliant I feel I must not hesitate to let every non-spanish speaker
    philosopher know about philosophical materialism!
    [=>] Sciences as categorical closures: www.helicon.es/pen/7848542.htm
    [=>] wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Bueno
    [=>]
    Sciences as categorical closures at Google books:
    books.google.es/books?printsec=frontcover&id=qg42bnQtz74C&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
    [=>] Biopicture of the philosopher : www.helicon.es/pen/7848542.htm
    [=>] His was forced into retirement: www.fgbueno.es/hem/1998r13.htm
    [=>]
    This interpretation of The Kingdom of Culture and the Kingdom of Grace
    is also a mind-fucker: www.fgbueno.es/ing/gbm/1991cult.htm
    Zizek sure will enjoy Bueno's theory of religions as theological inversion starting from Hegel to nowadays.
    [**] SERIOUS MATERIALIST PHILOSOPHERS PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE THIS INFO [**]

  • @mmd2156
    @mmd2156 5 років тому +1

    Bravo!

  • @ianbarr9925
    @ianbarr9925 3 роки тому +3

    Zizek is really dumbing it down for these college students lol

  • @burjaivan
    @burjaivan 2 роки тому

    In which year was the lecture?

  • @hiddeluchtenbelt6440
    @hiddeluchtenbelt6440 5 років тому +4

    1:36:35 “yeh”
    Sensual...

  • @FratFerno
    @FratFerno 4 роки тому +1

    Zizek's point about avoiding democracy reminds me of his brief slogan on Big Think: "Don't act. Just think." We need to find a place to not only listen but to think and so on and so on. The world is complicated.

  • @mendozamargarita8728
    @mendozamargarita8728 5 років тому +13

    Let's have some new material Slavoj.

    • @pritch481
      @pritch481 5 років тому +7

      It's a continual process of clarification. See 1:15:00, for example. You see that the Real is in the contradictions, e.g class struggle, where individual struggles are common.

    • @gaelwynmackwyn
      @gaelwynmackwyn 5 років тому

      We're a little late for that.

    • @Alejandro-te2nt
      @Alejandro-te2nt 5 років тому +1

      I feel like he has been telling the same few stories and jokes my whole life.

    • @danieltranter4164
      @danieltranter4164 4 роки тому +4

      He is an apostle, not a genius

    • @abataaoigami6715
      @abataaoigami6715 4 роки тому

      @@danieltranter4164 aha! Ah apostle of Apostles. Though his Written work is much more fleshy than his tired jokes and anecdotes. No one should have to rely on an anecdote that's more than 5 years old.

  • @joeygough5374
    @joeygough5374 4 роки тому +1

    When he is talking about breaking the fourth wall just after this (time)[ua-cam.com/video/qxz4zkO_ce4/v-deo.html] he is looking straight into the camera. so weird.

  • @AlexDeLarge1
    @AlexDeLarge1 4 роки тому

    The top two comments represent the duality of man.

  • @fromeveryting29
    @fromeveryting29 5 років тому +17

    What he says about transsexualism is spot on. He gets it. It feels like a neccecity. Sexual function is so fundamental to every part of life. I was terryfied of all the surgeries and social stigma. But now I've gone through all the surgeries and stuff, I can live way more functionally.
    It greatly insults me how people on the left think of gender as some superficial, floating social identity. As a transsexual man I feel way more comfortable and accepted with conservative people. They take me seriously because 1. They see a man when they see me. 2. They understand how profound it is to BE a gender.
    Liberal "gender benders" have little respect for my privacy. I do not feel comfortable around them. They make terrible assumptions, ask terrible questions and do not understand the seriousness and trauma of changing sex out of neccecity. The irony of it..

    • @aryehshershow2218
      @aryehshershow2218 5 років тому +3

      Julian I great comment, thanks for writing this

    • @Tom_Tom_Klondike
      @Tom_Tom_Klondike 5 років тому +2

      Really interesting, Julian. Thanks for your comment.

    • @verop124
      @verop124 5 років тому +1

      this really struck me. thanks for the comment. although i would assume conservatives dont ask questions only out of a mindset like „i dont wanna know i actually oppose this“. 🧐

    • @philiphammar
      @philiphammar 5 років тому +2

      Sounds more like you need to find better liberal-oriented friends.

  • @AudioPervert1
    @AudioPervert1 5 років тому +2

    Slavo is brilliant is far-out is so fluid and sometimes so off-hand. Horkheimer and Theodore Adorno of the Frankurt School of Critical Theory were never connected to communism, nor Stalin or any such left (or right) tendency.

    • @danieltranter4164
      @danieltranter4164 4 роки тому +3

      He was outlining the far-right conspiracy, not advocating it as true

  • @Argacyan
    @Argacyan 5 років тому +4

    1:10:13 I feel like Zizek is trapped in ideology here. The point is not "if you assert german identity you are nationalist" or whatever, it's the fact that nationalists and racists say they were just "asserting german identity" while shooting people in the streets like the NSU and so on and so forth in the 2010's.

    • @2unknown2111
      @2unknown2111 4 роки тому +5

      I believe this is what he refers to when he says, "I understand why it's bad." A bit vague, I agree, but I feel that the topic of what "national pride" means to white nationalists is a well discussed topic on the left. Žižek doesn't feel the need to reiterate this point and would rather spend time talking about white liberals and their GENERAL insistence on "identity for thee, not for me."

  • @mcjett5870
    @mcjett5870 5 років тому +1

    Courage

  • @comidillo
    @comidillo 5 років тому

    subtitles plzzz and i dont mean for Slavoj Žižek, come on youtube 2019

    • @abataaoigami6715
      @abataaoigami6715 4 роки тому

      They're dismantling community contributions for subtitles. It's disgusting.

  • @jansenmtan
    @jansenmtan 5 років тому +1

    1:37:15 - 1:37:40
    That is why I dont like hardcore
    i cant understand how expressions of pain are also expressions of pleasure

    • @abataaoigami6715
      @abataaoigami6715 4 роки тому

      Japanese porn is worse. The sounds are.... Rather frighteningly painful-sounding.

  • @rustyroche1921
    @rustyroche1921 5 років тому +9

    there's always that one cringy indian going through life (oedipally) confusing the world and his mother

  • @Chewychaca
    @Chewychaca 5 років тому +2

    10:56 - Greta does not display toxic masculinity, but benevolent/wholesome/restorative masculinity

    • @Alejandro-te2nt
      @Alejandro-te2nt 5 років тому +19

      I think he means that she is brutal, accusatory and doesnt care about accomodating the feelings of politicians. she is assertive in a brutal way.

    • @bradmodd7856
      @bradmodd7856 5 років тому

      toxic masculinity is aggression isn't it? that is available to all the sexes

    • @jordangentges2631
      @jordangentges2631 5 років тому +13

      @@bradmodd7856 no, aggression can have legitimate reasons to exist. He's rejecting that there is something essentially toxic about aggression, and that it's most important to know what the aggression is in the service of. She acts as a mirror of the facts and simply says them straightforwardly. Your comment is why exactly why Sizek is skeptical of political correctness, because the critique of performance obscures what is the actual underlying ideology we want to achieve.

    • @l.w.paradis2108
      @l.w.paradis2108 3 роки тому +1

      He is kidding, in part.

  • @l.w.paradis2108
    @l.w.paradis2108 3 роки тому

    My Own Private Idaho! 12:33

  • @ernstgross5852
    @ernstgross5852 5 років тому

    During a lecture my professor wrote "Slavoj Žižek" on the wall with a thick sharpie! No shit! Hahahaha

  • @amralharazi5373
    @amralharazi5373 5 років тому +1

    Typical BMCC moment at 19:12 The future Nobel laureate repeatedly heckling a lecture to make the brilliant contribution of “mole-people!” Yes, thank you for clarifying for the New York Post readers.
    The guy’s voice even sounds like he’s breathing through his mouth. Such a brief yet striking encapsulation of that place as an institution

  • @adriaanlabout2441
    @adriaanlabout2441 5 років тому

    Flying is dirty . Careful in those NY basements.

  • @PP266
    @PP266 5 років тому +5

    Mother Nature? In 2019?
    Fascism is coming my dear people and all this nature stuff will help it overcome all of us who want to be free.

  • @dddrrr7139
    @dddrrr7139 5 років тому

    somoene needs to subtitle zizek , do a crowd funding to pay for ur time

  • @TupacMakaveli1996
    @TupacMakaveli1996 5 років тому

    yakh!

  • @Ratty2480
    @Ratty2480 5 років тому +5

    Bit of "propaganda" about Fraulein Thunderberger being the "real deal" there by Ol' Slavoj
    Funny how it doesn't bother me as much coming from Zizek haha

    • @hanagreg
      @hanagreg 5 років тому

      Why Fräulein lol

    • @muhilan8540
      @muhilan8540 5 років тому

      maybe propaganda, but it's true

  • @NymphZoic68
    @NymphZoic68 5 років тому +2

    7:41