Great Minds: Slavoj Žižek

[@ComradeDt]

i love slavoj, you know? hes good and so on and so on

[@N0Xa880iUL]

😆

[@njits789]

I think this is the best, most consistent talk I have seen of him here on YT. And I have seen a lot of them.

[@NathanDudani]

Agreed

[@michaelware4891]

What do you mean by consistent?

[@njits789]

@@michaelware4891 Clear, focused, without too many digressions... I think he was simply a bit tired, to be honest.

[@davyroger3773]

The onw with Paul Holdengraber is one of the best

[@njits789]

@@davyroger3773 Yes, I like that one too. In fact, there are two.

[@alil2young51777]

You know he’s a great mind when this is still relevant today.

[@ariflanzraich7315]

I cant tell if his open-endedness is a compliment, in that he assumes we are all intelligent enough to fill in the blanks, or if he is just so dishevelled that its a naturally product of his brain activity. Either way, love him!

[@MS-il3ht]

"open-mindedness" - talks about destroying perceived "totalitarianism" by radical leftist censorship.

[@ritwikchakraborty2805]

It's a product of him being a Hegelian

[@goofyahhh254]

@@ritwikchakraborty2805 I like that the reply is 9 years after, but from my perspective 2 weeks ago so contemporary for me. Lol

[@jacobskovsbllknudsen5908]

Dialectical synthesis!

[@ahmedminhal8924]

I loved this and so on.

[@habibie]

I am Zizekian! Long live Zizek! Superb!!!!

[@abecerra81000]

So you’re a Stalinist lol there’s no such thing as a zizekian

[@jopeDE]

I think this is the best talk on ideology i have ever listend to.

[@alexpetrowmoser]

I've watched a lot of zizek this year and last night I met zizek in my dream. We looked at museums where I work and I tried to be smart and give big explanations but he I got the notion that it was insignificant to him until he asked me what church was the most beautiful in Tyrol where I am from and I told him the court church but it was more like a museum to me. Either way, we went around Innsbruck and we made some pictures. It was a nice dream. Miss you slavoi

[@solangearaujo2912]

Happened to me last night🤔

[@alexpetrowmoser]

@@solangearaujo2912 I forgot about this dream, thank you for your reply!

[@solangearaujo2912]

@@alexpetrowmoser isn't it strange?

[@chlorine5795]

Just reminding you of the dream again

[@alexpetrowmoser]

@@chlorine5795 forgot about the dream again. Thanks 😅

[@Torrriate]

I've had a feeling for so long why my intellectual peers are wrong in so many points of their world view, but I couldn't point it out, thus wasn't taken seriously. Now Zizek points it out clearly, what's wrong with them. He even goes beyond and shows even me new perspectives. Kudos to this man.

[@ykakoneTS]

🤣ma gavte la nata

[@goofyahhh254]

Exactly. But I'll go a step further- he points our what's wrong with precisely MY view of the world

[@rumiumegaki8415]

The Charing Philosopher. I could listen to him for hours

[@m-bronte]

People don't act on what they believe because society has invested a lot of money into making us all feel insecure and not sure of what we see and know. We are all in a constant state of insecurity 24/7. Even if you think your not, YOU ARE!

[@m-bronte]

When you look back in time the era's that had no media, those times were colourful, creative, great minds were born, people were interesting. As soon as media began, all creativity went out the door and people became subservient.....the age of insecurity was born.

[@srglepore]

There has got to be a means for us who agree with this observation to form an alliance that will reach around the world because people from all over are feeling this vicegrip of austerity tighten each year and for every disaster a billionaire is born.

[@m-bronte]

@@srglepore agree, but I'm afraid it will just be you and me in this alliance, as everyone else to to chicken sh*t.

[@srglepore]

@m-bronte People are hard to put in a single box. I can not explain it all here. People are animals who want to live. If something beneficial to the sentient animal appears, they will eventually want a part of it. Jobs, for example, we are so geared up to show up to work, even if it sucks. War-no one wants it. Hunger-no one wants it. Etc. To get to the point: Money is the residual vestige of our species that must be dropped off like we are doing to religion. Resource based economy must replace it. Capitalism and Communism are dying patients on the doctor's table. I am telling people younger than me to imagine such a world and replace their brainwashed minds occupation with 1. Religion and 2 Money with a core meaning to their lives. This is to create a world where there is no need for war and no need for money. The natural resources of the world should be made avail. to all like a global Magna Carta. We have thousands of universities. Factories. Brilliant scientists, technicians, farmers, etc. If we got out of this competition mode of the dinosaurs, we can build a global cathedral for all life forms. People would not have to fear tomorrow. You could go to school and develop the knowledge to cure cancer, hunger, create food unheard of, there would be more Tesla - minded individuals to discover new avenues in science we still cannot understand because we are in competition with one another. Imagine a global Alexandrian Library. Alien civilizations have evolved past 1. Religion and tribalism 2. Monetary systems 3. War 4. Scarcity. We can do the same, but it must begin in the mind. Jacques Fresco had the answer: The Venus Project. He spent 50 years of his 101 years developing it and sharing it. Somehow, the science community worldwide must learn of this alternative and push it.

[@m-bronte]

@@srglepore agree, but I'm starting to think people the animal are inherently built to self destruct, that's where it feel's like it's going.

[@nachannachle2706]

This man has VERY original observations. Ideology is still alive and thriving, for better and worst.

[@ahmedminhal8924]

And so on

[@Dave.Mustaine.Is.Genius]

And so on....Though no.... Whereas Islam is the truth and solution to the problems of the mankind, ideologies can never be trve and real. And their time is looooonnnng gone.

[@TheodoraKimmelHello]

Does anyone else think that because we did not come up with Ancient Greek Philosophy, but have attempted to apply it, that we might be able to avoid a “fall of Rome,” but more dealing with of things “falling into place.”

[@jccusell]

It's good thing Slavoj is still around. One of the few Marxist intellectuals left in academia these days. He really challenges the main stream ideas common in so many social an political science curricula.

[@hzingano]

"One of the few marxist intellectuals left in academia" wow... how distant from reality can you be?

[@RobotRocker615]

hzingano I can't think of many Marxist intellectuals that speak as often on as many subjects as he does while doing it from a Marxist perspective. Can you name a few? I always love to hear more.

[@hzingano]

Brandon R. how about almost every single professor in academia? College is the most Marxist volcano in the us, from whom do you think this comes from? please... open your eyes

[@RobotRocker615]

hzingano what do you think Marxism is?

[@hzingano]

Brandon R. marxism is not an idea, it's the whole revolutionary system, changes ideology from time to time, from place to place. the Frankfurt school changed how marxism penetrates western society in the 20th century, so you can't define what it is, becouse it is not a policy or a party. the question "what is marxism" comes from a person who does not know what marxism is.

[@MyTomServo]

I have no idea what he's talking about, but it's fascinating

[@fartinIutherking]

Ah so you are just a sheeple

[@ShivaalTiluk]

*faschinating **,

[@jacobloving6765]

Shivaal Tiluk China

[@fartinIutherking]

@Name Name What insecurities?

[@fartinIutherking]

@Name Name Sounds more like you are projecting yourself. And if not, continue with your fantasies

[@oddnejmus]

Sometimes I think Zizek's greatness lies in his ability, not to invent new material or produce original thought, but rather in finding pop cultural pearls.

[@dariopavicic8205]

I have quite convincing sentence for religious individuals here, which might imply an afterlife: "she died and SO ON... ( 1:07:00 )". Haters will say it's a proverb, taken out of context.

[@Clartred]

hahahahahahahahah :D I LOVE THIS COMMENT SECTION!

[@intanhidayat6064]

Even the first minute was a genius statement. Love that punch.

[@typicaljaguar9155]

Did I miss something or was Varufakis in the crowd?

[@Tenning]

Around 30:00 he talks about universities producing experts, who will then figure out how to exercise soft power and spin in order to avoid public criticism and gatherings, e.g. I think he refers to protest and crowd control, media spin and by the use of mass media maintain an ever present narrative that leaves no room for dissidence or criticism. I think he refers to some kind of "economism", that can always point to a buttom line for justification. If so I think he's right, it's happening.

[@sawtoothiandi]

By far the clearest presentation of Slavoj's i've heard, or perhaps i'm now getting the gist of it!?

[@timtillack]

Thanks. This was a wonderful call to critical thinkers and intellectuals

[@vanhavirta]

The worst use of "I'll try to keep this brief" at the end (by an audience member). :) Awesome lecture.

[@mikiel1981]

In all fairness, he said he'd try to be brief. He didn't promise he'd manage.

[@guy936]

The joke at 37:00 is side-splitting but no one laughed :/

[@ThorstenPattberg]

Why don't people in the audience just ask simple questions, succinct and clear? There is always someone who tells about his own life, makes statements, tells jokes, tries to outwit the speakers, tries to propose a whole counterargument, drops some names, elaborates more facts... crazy.

[@jopeDE]

But I think exactly these small added subinfos in there questions were nessecary to make the point clear, even though they might appeared annoying and unnecessary to you. Often times the" Nebensächlichkeiten" are only able to build the "Hauptsache".

[@donluchitti]

pause at @1:15:02 this is what shall be the model for the giant Zizezk that will stand watch over my harbour.

[@marcelors2764]

Not my disciple but you are doing it right and sometimes funny.

[@metabalcanico]

Good insight on the change occurring within universities...Here in Australia we have our own version of the private use of reasoning: Its called the Melbourne Model...streamlined education to get you to become a unit of capital asap..Not to mention the proliferation of so-called long distance courses, higher education "institutions", etc etc...

[@drmartinaolbert]

Absolutely brilliant! Remarkable presentation!

[@MrWhooy]

"The Kink's Speech"

[@jez9999]

"Don't know what you did to this microphone Slavoj..." "I did NOTHING."

[@miloradbajic8318]

Briliant.

[@ChrisLeeW00]

This has aged like wine.

[@harisubramanian4165]

Please add Subtitle

[@diegorodriguez6193]

Critique of Ideology. Ideology is still here today. Two Examples The King Speech "Who can be stupid enough to say that 'it is my divine right to become king'" The Black Swan- It reinforces one of the myths of femininity. If you are a man you can be stupid and still get what you want. If you are a woman then you have to make a choice. If you choose your career then you will pay the price for that by death. Now lets take a step further. How can we detect this ideology in culture? "It doesn't only matter what you say. It also matters what you don't say." Sherlock Holmes example. "I know very well, but I do not believe it." This makes us refuse what we see and know. You recognize the principle but do not put it into affect in your daily life. It is not about what you know or do not know. It is about how some things you might know but do not put them into your daily life. You base your life on a lie and it will come back to you in a very haunting fashion. The fetishist function where you just accept stuff but do not take any of what you are learning seriously enough to actually act upon it. Secretly their fetish allows them to take a distance from the realization of their actual situation and actions. What is fetish? Example of the guy who's wife died from breast cancer. While he was talking about the death of his wife he was playing with a hamster. The hamster was his fetish. I believe it but I do not actually believe it. We believe a lot more than we know we believe. Within your acts the belief has manifested.

[@diegorodriguez6193]

Don Ventura thanks

[@putudarasaraswati3462]

I love how he tried not to touch his nose at the begining

[@aloofaloofing2859]

Nothing says, ‘Pro’ quite like starting off with, ‘I hope this works’.

[@jamespotts8197]

This is an excellent lecture, I am still in a state of misunderstanding wether or not the " knowing of a fact" that has the potential to lead to a catastrophic outcome and not acting on that fact in some preventive manner is in it's self an ideology? Or is that the problem with ideologies of modernity, the past and or the future?

[@mercmer....]

Žižek⭐

[@CC3GROUNDZERO]

19:59 "--I don't have time to go into this direction, but nonetheless--" ^ _ ^

[@JUGAopet1]

30:00 (Kant) - 37:20 is fookin' brilliant ! Go, Slavoj GO !

[@lexsite]

The second coffee scene he refers was also used in Seinfeld? George costanza turned down an invite because it was too late for coffee.

[@levogiro]

How can i contribute by captioning this to spanish?

[@deepakborgave7242]

Extraordinary

[@andrew5613]

this man has the word i never had to my ideas and thought i have and ideas to thought i never had manly the latter

[@Lu9c8as7]

and, this is very dangerous, because if we are demanding it, someone may come and respond to those demands, but if it comes from outside the political establishment, who knows what kind of fanatical leaders may take the place of politics

[@jonahfox]

I don't agree with his reading of Black Swan but I am currently reading The Parallax View and it is very good.

[@saijookatmore6481]

Top Zizek fan. ❤

[@tiagocruz6307]

Its like italo calvino city: People changes jobs every week and the city is alive,houses move,robots do automatic stuff, " and so on"...

[@mieszkomieszko]

I'm perpetually amazed how does he jump form genial insights into notions which make me want to crie. :)

[@Lu9c8as7]

He makes a point about your opinion on the idea that politics is hopeless; but he says that the odd thing is that people who dismiss the whole political establishment still demand, as if to someone else, change; they never say, we the people will take over this responsibility, it's always about an external solution

[@mikoajbadzielewski3396]

zajebisty akcent

[@unkleskratch]

I'll be brief' say the first questioner, and takes 4 minutes to ask his question.

[@vpdisco]

I'm sure Zizek (and many famous intellectuals) gets that a lot. There's a doc where a young fan tried making an impression on him (which failed) and was very awkward to watch.

[@FedjaHvastija]

There's a handy way to see if he has anything sensible to say. It mostly revolves around watching the rest of it.

[@matthiaswalker38]

I think I should try readings his books rather listening to him talk, which I hope will be far less tangential. Any recommendations ?

[@enterbalak]

+Aaron Temple Start with first book I would imagine.

[@shawnscott7842]

+Aaron Temple start with the sublime object of ideology

[@xleax6479]

+Aaron Temple I would avoid his books altogether and read Thomas Sowell's 'Intellectuals and Society' and Eric Hoffer's 'The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of mass movements' "Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength" Eric Hoffer

[@robertwalter1631]

Not really - his books are pretty tangential too. The best book to start reading would probably be his book of jokes...

[@fishybishbash]

Zizek has a platform which he would not have gained if his ideas were 'complete nonsense'. Eccentric, controversial, idiosyncratic maybe. Perhaps you completely disagree with him or disapprove of his methods, fine. But to dismiss everything he says as 'complete nonsense' is to demonstrate your own intellectual laziness. By the way I was interested that you chose to send a message to my channel rather than comment here. Almost as if it were a 'little advice on the side'. Very odd.

[@Lu9c8as7]

No ideology comes without it's problems, or it's villains. Comparing them is all you can do.

[@astroboomboy]

@mltorley The asperger aspect might let him actually see things as they are, rather than what most social "scientists" do, namely try and find evidence to support their ideology even if there is no evidence at all. But of course, he does not have asperges.

[@slowflowheat]

Is there a transcript of this anywhere? It would be of some use for some of the things he refers to.

[@truelieswow]

@Vier5501 It's not stated in the film. It's given as one of the many problems that could have caused it.

[@cgdermot]

"Hit him in his Hamster", love it.

[@FourbitFriday]

Don't trust the dislike counter; I accidentally clicked that button. I don't actually dislike this at all.

[@lukashanzel6320]

However, this is the charm of a debate! The counterarguments, dropping names, elaborating more and more facts, this is what society needs. Would you like to have just one way look on all things in the world? Of course not, however people hate to be challenged in what they believe is the only truth, they are even stupid enough to feel offended by such action. But there does not exist such a thing as "the only truth" because the truth never fails only because it never stands just on one side.

[@albacan]

Remarkable man

[@arixap]

I think they purposefully positioned the camera so that you are forced to see the EYE, instead of his eyes.

[@jblanchette91]

this guy always convinces me i need therapy

[@N0Xa880iUL]

Why

[@Zirc0nium69]

don't take him so literally. he has often stated that, yes he does view himself as marxist, but he absolutely does not want a system like the soviet union to return. he is, like marx, a philosopher. and like marx's work his thoughts are being used by many ignorant people. i am an anti-communist since my family had to suffer many times under the oppression of a communist government but i still love listening to zizek, because he accepts no taboos when it comes to thinking

[@Feanic]

"I am not paranoiac..." ...touches himself all the time.

[@crazyguysadvice]

What exactly is your point, if you have any other than making yourself known in some pathetic way, in being related to your excitation with Slavoj Zizek?

[@Feanic]

Willem Dodds I am sorry if I hurt your feelings for him.

[@crazyguysadvice]

you still haven't answered my drunken question, what was your point? ... And well, I don't have feelings for him, ah hahaha. I only have feelings that get irritated by senseless banter

[@Feanic]

Not senseless for me. My point is that he acts paranoid.

[@crazyguysadvice]

haha well. I hope I haven't offended you. But yes he can act strange at times, this is true.

[@Mauser91]

Where does Zizek speak of this Hegel book? I some how missed it.

[@alex_on_the_web]

Brief questions please...

[@mihairotico]

1:07:51 sorry, I cannot understand the question: "Why do the preachers last acts not get your theory?"

[@Lu9c8as7]

you can also reject it, but if you do it without understanding it then you are prejudicially rejecting it

[@squidsalive]

Can anyone identify the shirt that he is wearing? Is it an artist, a band??

[@truelieswow]

@Vier5501 The other explinations, both explicit and implicit are the pressure of being king, the favouritism of his father, his domineering older brother etc. Then there's all the underlying tensions and you could probably crack out some Frued on this bad-boy.

[@thaumasein]

0:43:46 "what, then,..but!,...nonetheless..." :D

[@tryptich21]

@anarchistory I don't agree with you, but I disagree more with the fact that your comment has been semi-censored because 'too' many people dislike it. Zizek would have a lot to say about that.

[@中嶋白井]

English subtitles,please

[@delgermaadavaasuren]

is there any possibility to obtain a text of his talk here?

[@mltorley]

@TheRacistsMustDie Its not so hard to grasp as you may think. There's a bit of a trap that can get you stuck in an infinite loop but since its basically just a fractal its pretty easy to work out the essence of the pattern. Its a shame most people can't see it but human perception is pretty limited. People on the autism scale tend to get caught up in calculating incalculable relations. The numbers and functions keep changing. Once you figure out whats fuzzy and whats emergent, its easy.

[@MisterSkillet100]

Reason surely would prevail in the absence of violence. However, although nature abhors a vacuum, the majority of what we know that can be called nature is a vacuum.

[@MisterSkillet100]

@Martin ČelkoI guess we dont see it because most of the time the vacuum wins. Ask my cat he is full of quantum activity and he runs from the roomba. In seriousness, as I understand it the majority of space time is a foam with quantum events happening on a tiny scale constantly but very rarely with enough energy to do anything other than fizzle out nearly instantly. A large scale quantum perturbrance like the big bang only left the matter and energy we encounter here due to the sheer amount of energy released, and even then most of it was immediately destroyed because ALMOST just as much antimatter was simultaneously created. What we live on and by is the tiny percentage of matter that was not nullified by antimatter that has spread out and is being dissolved into an entropic soup over eons. Eons which mean nothing to anyone but us. Eons like the amount of time that has passed since I watched this video I literally forgot about this comment and in time, so too will the universe forget about me and you and everyone you and I love. Merry Christmas Martin.

[@lbdent4292]

not true. if you read marx's communist manifesto, the process of sovietization was explicitly identical to his process of transition from capitalism to socialism. marx's socialism was not a democratic stage, but rather one of proletarian dictatorship. his underlying utilitarianism (the common good as society's goal) makes it necessary for a dictator that dictates the common good. the only difference or departure is the russian revolution was peasant not worker's (marx's asian mode of prod)

[@Oishi08]

It's sad, but true what this European thinker states is the case. He is not quaint in rendering the ideological pressures on modern life. No, he in fact confirms the presence of ideology even in popular culture and in acts of purchasing Starbucks coffee. His work is crucial to understanding the cynical functioning of ideology today. "It is ideological cynicism which obscures the religious core of capitalist beliefs."

[@Stereotype23]

Never understood how people can mention Lenin and Stalin as if they are the same thing.

[@MelbadeShokolad]

There's no chance to have some subtitles? Please?

[@gilliancockroft1719]

...think alike ❤

[@TheRacistsMustDie]

@mltorley Well I was talking more about the concept of overdetermination which states that no theory about the social world can ever be fully conclusive which if I think Althusser was the the first one to come up with, but afterwards it has become a commonly accepted fact in the social sciences (which I study, thus my outrage). It is btw not a concept grounded in Marxism so criticizing that wont really bring overdetermination into discredit. Why he didn't believe me? Because he thought I was

[@MrFabianGhosty]

@AndroidPolitician if you listened to some of his other stuff, he explicitly rejects both those ideas as Cold War propaganda

[@z0uLess]

Do you guys think that autism is much more diagnosed nowadays because of the demands on people to understand an increased level of nuance when relating to other people (social relations of everyday life)?

[@Lu9c8as7]

yeah but hitler was impassioned; he had no strong philosophical stance behind his politics, they were more emotional and reactionary, so he was not a thinker. Lenin and Stalin wrote treatises, and they had a whole discourse that had been going on in the 19th century to draw from and create models for their politics and organizational models; despite the fact that he was a totalitarian, stalin did do theoretical exploration

[@Lu9c8as7]

yeah but the thing is he's not talking about the "point" of the movie, he's actually talking about what the movie is not 'saying' but implying. That's his point on ideology today, it is so strong that we're not even aware of all our own beliefs because we are not aware of their implications; so that's the point, the king finally becomes enough of an 'idiot' to take himself seriously; that's ideology, we become stupid enough to take it seriously

[@Monzyboy]

So basically his answer to subconsciously believing our ideology is to challenge the natural rules of the system? Doesn't that mean that we have to be outside of it, to get the perspective? To capture what is not said?

[@ryanboone6386]

+Cookielol what is intropection

[@addammadd]

It means that you should never allow yourself to be complacent in your critique of anything at all ever. Constantly subject your observations and environment to critique. Critique your critique.

[@eddiebrock5022]

Perfect comedic timing

[@loccoptic]

at last some1 pointed out the attack on the public use of reason

[@fishybishbash]

Who is right, Zizeck? Yes, I agree.

[@kingdomofloss1]

What is the point of his talk? I am half an hour into it and it all seems so wayward and undisciplined. There does not seem to be a message here, just a bunch of statements!!

[@Likewise_Truthfully]

you can get a lot from statements, you can apply different understanding and principles in your own unique way. what i took away from the first half was to confront reality and your issues.. in the true sense. Not to disregard the true sentiment and principles of things, but to confront them directly in a symbolic way. get to where your reservations are over come and where the responsible and effective behavior takes place. dont avoid your landlord, it will only upset him, and stress you out. meanwhile as you pretend all is normal the added stress of the "knowing" you must deal with this problem will seep in to other areas of your life. You may not be confronting the issue but it does effect ur life in a sense. The tension that you are per-longing may add to other conflicts. like you might be prone to fight with your spouse, or might drink a lil more that week, be less motivated.. maybe you binge on playing video games, my friend.

[@chutzpahclang5485]

+trueKingOfLoss maybe so, but did you enjoy it?

[@yasseralsaidi1168]

Zizek .s is A true Crusader +++ i could picture him with his helmet⛑️ of Combat and body Armor

[@mltorley]

@astroboomboy Well, people with Asperger's cannot fully comprehend certain aspects of human behavior, particularly emotions. Relations purely rational and logical are clear, but logical and rational hardly describes human behavior.

[@sandelic1]

This opinion is based on watching this video or have you actually read anything from Slavoj?

[@olespe1138]

Why not?