www.egs.edu Slavoj Zizek interviewed by Wei Chan and Christian Haenggi, talking about European Graduate School, teaching philosophies and academia, and referring to Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Giorgio Agamben, and Noam Chomsky. Slavoj Zizek Free public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2006 Slavoj Žižek Slavoj Zizek, a Slovenian sociologist, postmodern philosopher, and cultural critic is a professor at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana and at the European Graduate School EGS who uses popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and the theory of Jacques Lacan to explain politics and popular culture. He was born in 1949 in Ljubljana, Slovenia where he lives to this day but he has lectured at universities around the world. He was analysed by Jacques Alain Miller, Jacques Lacan’s son in law. His research focuses on Karl Marx, Hegel and Schellingfundamentalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock. He has published many books and translations in several languages. He is the author of The Sublime Object of Ideology, 1989, Beyond Discourse Analysis (a part in Ernesto Laclau’s New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time), London: Verso. 1990, For They Know Not What They Do …
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Anyone else find it hilarious, the bumbling kid trying to get a word in edgewise with Zizek? I dont think its possible, and besides, why would you want to say anything about yourself with an opportunity to talk about something worth while?
Because he’s super hyper and wiping his nose constantly. He’s not high, just a little out there. Anyone this bright usually is.
Zizek rules!
someone trying to start a rumour, it’s not true – the more you you listen the more he makes sense
really, someone please explain why almost all zizek videos on youtube has multiple posts claiming he’s a cokehead. I really don’t get it… who cares? funny how people have to comment on personal attributes or whatnot, but can’t focus on what he is actually saying. sad, really….
I think its more likely that you lack the background knowledge to understand him. His style is somewhat rhetorical, but he isn’t pointlessly obscure.
Ugh… this is ridiculous. Lots of these things you are complaining about weren’t even brought up….
besides, wewillwinanarchy you didn’t get the point from the interview, did you? this was the very basic thing he said: decentralize the practical element!!!
hahaha, he’s great. That last “fuck you!” was just too funny
If bringing down capitalism was easy or practical, wouldn’t it already have happened by now?
EGS – is it possible to make available the whole interview?
I find the theory interesting, but I don’t see how this can help us bring down capitalism, the state, etc. Where is the practical element?
Define the term “wannabe radical.” Sounds to me like you’re speaking out of ideological narcissism rather than critical reflection.
What is the academic circle to you; a celebrity circle?
If your to superficial to critically gaze a philosopher without having to ‘group them’ into ‘pop-star diva’ categories, you would best spend your time reading the Hollywood tabloids. You are such a toy.
ah id love to go to this school, but i lack the brilliance! what a world! glub glub glub!
he’s perhaps just not the most gifted speaker, but that isn’t to say he doesn’t have great ideas.. i used to fucking loathe the guy, but actually these egs lectures have made me brush off his texts and helped me to see him in a new space. i still think he’s ignorant on a lot of issues, meaning i still disagree with a lot, but now i’m nearer a ‘rational’ understanding of him. blablahahaha
am I the only one who is unimpressed? I see no substance in Zizek at all, only rhetorics and obscurantism parading as depth and insight
Eh, Agamben is sloppy.
He is too obese to do coke, ok, so stfu.
All of your comments are shit … listen what he sais not if he is on coke or not…you just don’t understand his work…”Read then open your mouth”…critize the work…
Zizek is a piece of shit. He is just a wannabees radical intellectual. He can never be like Foucault, D-G, Agamben, he is just way sloppy.
He is not on coke, he is just giving sense to his Tourrette syndrome.
I believe so, he appears to be in every vid I have seen of him.
I wondered just the same when I started watching the vid. But I guess he´s just with a flu or something. Usually ppl. who think a lot, who are more “mental” than “body” are more sensitive when it comes to the nose, throat and ears.
As i wrote before I am also flabbergasted by his presentation, but there is no doubt – his outbursts are even faster. I can’t imagine how fast he must think …
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