Slavoj Žižek - The Spectators Malevolent Neutrality

[elsurexiste]

Weird, I understood Slavoj's German much better than the local's.

[wildabeast11235]

This dude is on a shit load of coke.

[wesnfred]

don't wanna crash the party, but what's the book that they mention in the beginning? in which the author says "Women doesn't exist"?

[RolandOnTheRoad]

@wesnfred Have you found the book yet? I'm searching myself. 

[wesnfred]

@RolandOnTheRoad no success. its weird, because Josefina Ayerza recently held a talk on the same topic..... and there is no direct reference as to where it comes from, as if it's obvious, I feel stupid

[highway234]

7:15 to also skip the German.

[zadaszenie]

1:15:53/4 boobs!!!!

[100FingeredMonkey]

didn't know he spoke german

[jradetzky]

@100FingeredMonkey all decent philosophers speak German

[HardHouseMusic4Me]

There is no pound of flesh anymore.

[cogitheum]

What is Zizek's view about where these oppressive and complex ideologies come from? Can the Big Other be killed, and under what circumstances, and to what result?

[RobertErac]

@cogitheum The Big Other can't be killed as such - Lacan claimed that it didn't even exist, and that some part of the purpose of psychoanalysis was this realization; any kind of "murder" of the Big Other is always itself a staged act, like the Nietzschean "death of God," replacing positive content with negative, empty, purely structural fascination.

[RobertErac]

As for where it comes from: the ideologies always stage themselves before the gaze of a Big Other - they are always for someone watching. In Lacan's formulation, the Big Other is inherent within language as the ultimate and final destination of linguistic utterances: if you will, it is the kind of massive, universe-sized, all-time totality of language and thought themselves. May sound strange, seeing as Zizek disagrees with it, but read "Anti Oedipus," subbing Big Other for Despotic Signifier

[cogitheum]

@RobertErac thank you.

[curiosofsigns]

@cogitheum I'd recommend Todd McGowan's The End of Dissatisfaction? for all that stuff. It's an excellent intro to Lacan and to how his theories relate to the "society of enjoyment".

[Theknopf]

THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF A THOUGHT, GAZE OF THE ENDLESS THOUGHT. THE MIND HAS NO BOUNDARIES; "GOD NEVER WANTED TO HIDE ANYTHING", THE RIGHT TO KNOW.

SLAVOJ SPEAKS OF IDENTITY THROUGH TV AND TV WATCHING YOU! LIKE CUBA!

[jxcca]

32:00 Any volunteers to assist with Zizek's research?

[angalbgarher]

@jxcca Sure!!!!

[BoStevoD]

So, the War on Drugs, Terror, etc., requires the reproduction of drugs, terror, etc., in order to reproduce itself.

[1a1a2s3d4f5g]

Žižek, I love you.

[neuromantik1981]

nice... but cut at the end...

[metabalcanico]

i don't have time to develop it now...:p.. only a 2 hour lecture

[jozeer88]

I've never wanted something subtitled as badly as this. :O

[jradetzky]

@jozeer88 why? even though his accent is strong, his English (and most importantly his thinking) is really clear

[jonahfox]

This is great.

[mileslilly2]

this may be the most focused Zizek lecture I've seen yet

[blueoystercult22]

6:45 to skip the spiel

[cantavoidtrite]

Thank you for putting this up!

[Paseosinperro]

what is Zizek doing if not just describing things which affect us but we never think about? Is like if, when we understand how things are, we are free from them. Curious

[jamesbubbastewartjr]

@Paseosinperro I think you're right, but if the goal is to be free from these things, the first step would necessarily have to be awareness of the nature/existence of the problem/issue. I dont think zizek has the answers, but he at least sheds some light on the nature of the problems, more than anyone I have ever known.

[Paseosinperro]

@jamesbubbastewartjr Yes, He use to say that the duty of the philosophy is to redefine problems, there are not only wrong answers but also wrong questions I totally agree with that, my experience shows me that many times great part of the problem, or sometimes even the whole problem (in that case the only problem would be the definition of a problem who doesn't exist) is the way we perceive it. Yes, is like the first step is to see things properly, as they really are.

[LuisManuelLealDias]

@Paseosinperro "as they really are"? lol how humble that is.

[Paseosinperro]

@LuisManuelLealDias Hi, I don't follow your comment, why humble?

[ablackchaneldress]

glad to see this finally back on youtube.

[absinth1987]

one of the best Zizek-Lectures online available, very profound