Slavoj Zizek. On Belief and Otherness. 2002 4/6


www.egs.edu Slavoj Zizek speaking about belief, the other, others radical otherness, respect for otherness, resistance, hatred, intolerance towards wisdom, totalitarian regimes, displacement, multitude and diversity, just action, fighting fascism, preserving humanity by killing the enemy, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, including references to movies like Unbreakable with Bruce Willis and Shrek. Public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2006, Slavoj Zizek. 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

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xSilverLegendax January 24, 2011 at 12:28 pm

Saddam was the wrong man living in the wrong country with te wrong resources at the wrong time. It really never was about Saddam, but most people know that.

RationalEmotive January 24, 2011 at 1:11 pm

I don’t understand the strange dialectic between Zizek and Schirmacher. The later does try amend critique just for the sake of it or the acquisition is inconsistency “You did not talk about what you were saying you were going to talk about” (whine)
It is almost like Schirmacher is posing to be posing to be ignorant, that is to signal to fight only at half strength and thereby implying Zizek is not man enough to take a real blow, which of course is bullshit and Schirmacher has no real argument.

followthefleet January 24, 2011 at 1:41 pm

I like the humanity of this fellow…who I do not know. I’d love to be in a place where these issues where discussed all the time. But in regard to the comments on Iraq: Saddam never posed a threat to the USA. The American neo-cons, just as they do in domestic politics..set up a STRAW MAN..and then attacked it. Saddam was the straw man.

In regard to pop culture: I think Ginger and Fred..far from being escapist or sentimental..hit at the center of the human heart. Hitler banned them.

aikigenius January 24, 2011 at 2:34 pm

on the innocence of patriotism..

‘iraq has weapons of mass destruction’ ‘they are imminently poised to attack the US’

and at a theoretical level..
the balance of power in the middle east is being threatened..

because iraq has the biggest army in the middle east.. ‘we (the US) are outgunned’

(this was a strategic lie/iraq has less than half the firepower/ tanks only fired at half the distance of american ones/etc)

but we find ourselves batting for the underdog

the david and goliath script

AlcesteEIL January 24, 2011 at 2:53 pm

Woohoo! Thanks from me too. ;D

authenticognomen January 24, 2011 at 3:00 pm

Wonderful, thank you for the link. It is much appreciated.

egsvideo January 24, 2011 at 3:59 pm

dont worry. there will be more :)

egsvideo January 24, 2011 at 4:24 pm

thank you for the comment. the situation of many other lectures in that balance of open ideas and copyright/copyleft is rather delicate. the lecture you are referring to can be found at Sewanee. media (dot) sewanee (dot) edu/htswl/zizek/default.html

joven35 January 24, 2011 at 5:02 pm

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richidpraah January 24, 2011 at 5:34 pm

wolfman and zizek should do some dialogs!

authenticognomen January 24, 2011 at 5:51 pm

There was a Zizek lecture titled “Why only atheists can truly believe” (or something analogous to it). I saw it on youtube a while ago, and it appears to have been deleted. Does anyone know where I can view this lecture? …thank you

artLAmode May 5, 2011 at 4:00 am

<3 Lacan RT Jacques Lacan gives public lecture in 1972; Zizek writes How to Read Lacan (Free). Archive:

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