www.egs.edu Slavoj Zizek talking about the explicit, truth, rules, politics, Mel Gibson, society, race, racism, antisemitism; lecturing and developing a psychoanalysis of culture and societies. 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 in Ernesto Laclau’s New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time), London: Verso. 1990, For They Know Not What They Do, London: Verso. 1991, Looking Awry, MIT Press. Enjoy Your Symptom!, Routledge …
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@PROFESSOR23MAEHEMM23 Violence, Welcome to the Desert of the Real, and First as Tragedy, Then as Farce are all good places to start. Enjoy!
I’ve only just “discovered” SLAVOJ ZIZEK, I want to buy one of his books but don’t know where to begin. I am interested on his views related to politics and our perception of reality, more than purely the Laconian analysis itself.
Can you recommend any book?
@bananito2 You blame Jews for perverting even humanitarianism (or humanism, I can’t tell from your spelling). Should we explain your idea via your character? Is it in your personality to spout antisemitism? Or are you just parroting antisemitic ideas you’ve picked up reading antisemitic writings? Whatever the case, it must be nice to have such a simplistic worldview. The world can be a confusing place, it’s nice to have a scapegoat, no?
and that lie has been perpetuated by the same corrupted individuals: JEWS (as bolcheviqs in communism and mencheviqs zionists in capitalism)
The problem is not an ideology, which by itself can be good or bad. The one who put the ideology in practice is the one that give the character, the soul of the idea.
In the hands of Jews even humanitarism is misantropic.
Both communism and capitalism claim to be on the side of the honest, hardworking citizen. Of course, that’s a lie in both cases. Communism had a decadent elite, but the rest of the people live(d) fairly OK. They were all equally poor, but noone was starving. In capitalism you have more rich people, but also more poor and homeless people. Communism offers more security, capitalism offers more opportunity. But, communism is better at delivering the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
ALL ideologies aren’t so bad as you think, until they fail to become ideologies.
Communism is not so bad ideology as you think, bad are its people who become wolves later…
in communism ALL people had jobs in my country, every family has gone to vacation and visited the sea every year, the doctors, medical institutions and medicines were free… people were nice and optimistic about their jobs… but in other hand they were afraid to speak free, everything was censored,… and there were not so much wide range of products to choose in markets (like only one yogurt mark,..)
My God your ignorance es quite amazing. He really lived on a communist country wich was Yugoslavia. All your ideas from communism being a sort of greed materialized are just hilarious. Maybe you live on a developed country, but you can’t say anything about capitalism unless you suffered its consequenses, distorsions and pathologies
You’re typical white trash, redneck
we live under your bed and eat your old copies of Sports Illustrated. And we will never go away.
@nosophorus :haha u got nothing on zizek,he’s a genious..who are you?
This is typical Communist trash.
@patnais102
>consolation prize
Funny. Since there were German initiated negotiations to release their Jews to England to sit out the war, the condition of their release being that they would NOT be sent to Palestine; Himmler was concerned that they would try to despoil the “noble Arab peoples of Palestine of their ancient land” and such.
what a twat.
join the movement!
Ahm, ok, I encourage free speech even if it is far from being rational.
Tie your comment, of unabashed anti-Semitism in with what Zizek is saying or you are a non sequitur moron.
1917 Belford declaration does it ring some bells to you?I guess it does not because you would not say such absurdity as: Jews were given Israel as a state by the western powers after WWII (and that was a consolation prize for surviving the Nazi death camps — I wonder why they couldn’t have used a portion of Germany)
He assumes the reader is supposed to recognize a joke, It’s obvious with the most brief studying of his (ever still controversial, but not stupid) oppinions.
Marxist communism? Did you say that? This ideology is the greedest one that has already arisen in this world – much more greeder than capitalism. It is so greedy to the point of not allowing persons to buy toillet paper by themselves. Look at Zizek, he even can’t trim out his own beard, try to imagine this poor man putting in practice his own ideas.
breeeegs, even if he said, it wouldn’t be anything most of the world doesn’t already think. Jews were given Israel as a state by the western powers after WWII (and that was a consolation prize for surviving the Nazi death camps — I wonder why they couldn’t have used a portion of Germany) Anyhow, Jews are the biggest assholes in the world now considering the treatment of Palestinians. Jews are new Serbs. Fuck Jews.
were just not capable to put it into practice because of our shortcomings as human beings..
Still has some way to go in order to beat capitalism to that title.
We still don’t know whether true left Marxist communism would work… nobody’s tried it yet.
When Gandhi was asked what he thought about western civilisation he said, “I think it would be a good idea.” The same could be said of socialism.
Yea, it would be much better if he didn’t talk openly about racism and just criticized Israel’s treatment of Palestinians like everyone else on the left.
On the other hand, it’s awfully convenient that this “racist creep” tells us what his spontaneous thoughts are so that we can convict him and sentence him to death by vomit-choking. If only all racists did the same thing!
Communism… one of the worst ideas to ever plague humanity.
given your admitted failure of comprehension what would make you think your character judgment is worthwhile
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