Slavoj Zizek. About European Graduate School. 2006 1/2

[ApocalypticDevotee]

Finny how communists live so well in the western world.

[Kubooxooki]

My Gott, why don't we make a theory out of... private jokes?!!! That pretty much sums up Zizek for me.

[ChempionGlobe]

¿Is it politically incorrect to assume "egs" is code for "balls", a certain unalienable Creator-endowed set?

watch?v=H_AW8soxIa8

[theOfactor39]

this guy's ideas are all over the place, just like the bowl of cereal I threw while listening to this

[blackronin09]

@theOfactor39 Your comment made me laugh hard! It does not happen very often with youtube comments!

[MrFpenteado]

I like Zizek althought so much Marx has flaws....Anyway this nose touching is intriguing (and annoying) : either its coke or sinusitis, it can't be anything else than these two...

[onoludilo]

Reminder: 6:19 :))))))))))

[Patriol666]

is a potential danger to many trends in our society, like tolerance or identity.

so it is no accident, that he has many enemies. then, it's also not important, if his ideas are right or not.

[jradetzky]

"u ask urself a question and you answer it"

LOL

sounds pretty much like my PhD

[MrDiceman9000]

If I cannot understand his pronunciation I just listen again and again.

[jradetzky]

@MrDiceman9000 you need to see the world dude, most people speak with heavy accents

[PainHoleBurn]

I'd say he realy isn't "ill all the time", the thing is that he "sniffs" like there was no tomorrow, hahaha

[takeastresspilldave]

wow man...terrorize the students! like it

[pseudonym1964]

Bit of a bore... seen him talking live... fancies himself as a pop star...

[pseudonym1964]

Bit of a bore... seen him talking live... fancies himself as a pop star...

[andreasjacke]

fast speed Style

[SmellWhiteTerror13]

stop talking with your hands

[133839297]

OK... Now try this: listen to 6 minutes of this vid paying close attetion to it and then press pause... Listen to the silence, feel your mind totally relaxed and your body levitating.

I hope this guy keep on WRITING, tho.

[AmericanSuperpower]

holy dick and balls !

[kermittherabbit]

this guy makes me nervous...

[cohaerere]

I read a lot of his works, but I always got impatient hearing him talking without subtitles. How sad.

[rotor]

This coke addict sure is brilliant. But maybe he should cool down a little beetween each thoughts that spread into his head.

(The philosopher coach.)

[rotor]

Yeah ! This coke addict can sure speak fast. Quite interesting and brilliant anyway...

[francotenelli]

This guy is incredible-don't share half of what he says but he is absolutly right about academic studies-they are in huge crises

[tlevy72]

@francotenelli could not agree more

[InertLoop]

@francotenelli Yeah, there's too much marxist influence...

[minebolererbig]

looooooooooooooooool

[DIESELFLIX]

Need a ENGLISH teacher?

[swingdocta]

fail

[ExMachine]

He uses the verbal techniques of 'pick up artist'. It's probably Lacans doing.

[WeWillWinAnarchy]

Zizek is pro at terrorizing people. I love peoples responses to his work.

[limonare]

Thank you for posting European Graduate School!

[jerry1z]

Paja patak ga šopa.

[iwpoe]

This is the best university commercial I've ever seen.

[wushugushupork]

Thank you so much, EGS, for these videos. The more I watch, the more I become enamored...

[RisikoR]

if you wanna hang out, you gotta take her out...

[rodanosamehr]

Thank you egs for making these presentations available.

[0neironaut]

ahha i love how he starts with Epicurus' notion of Gods existing in the "interspace"... and then goes on to make analogy with EGS, the space where "Gods" teach!

[delpolo]

and... who's the cocaine dealer at EGS?

[iKnowYouSeeThis]

Pointing out a speakers perceived vulgarities can be amusing, since not only is it considered to be impolite but it is altogether aside from the topic of discussion.

However, since you've brought it up, so was Freud - knowing Mr. Zizek as a Lacaninan, is it so surprising?

[iKnowYouSeeThis]

Pointing out a speakers perceived vulgarities can be amusing, since not only is it considered to be impolite but it is altogether aside from the topic of discussion.

However, since you've brought it up, so was Freud - knowing Mr. Zizek as a Lacaninan, is it so surprising?

[burndecologne]

...it started out as a private joke, and then chomsky thought - why dont make a theory out of it! nice final statement to chomskys generative/universal grammar! hehe.

[richidpraah]

perhaps a revenge against chomsky's views on lacan? it's a bit unfair i think, especially in the light of critical theory and action, where chomsky's political work still is much more important than pretty much all of the critical european thinkers, including foucault and newer ones including most all of these egs lecturers. not that they don't have great insights, but i still think chomsky's critique of the european critical postmodern tradition is right on the money, as it were..

[hastobe24]

an intellectual wanker

[hastobe24]

pass him some kleenex

[subjectiveman]

sure he's on coke. What's wrong if philosophy is continous search and thought enlightment?

[baronmorris]

New College of Florida, which I attended from 96 - 99, is a lot like the democratic streamlining of education he mentions. It's a beautiful thing. :-)

[oitamakin]

Thats a brilliant analysis of the rather sad situation in American and European academia.

[illustratistefani]

I agree, wish I could be there.

[ExMachine]

Lacan has a lot to answer for.

[ZwolfZki]

$21,000 (tuition fees) for a PhD... & ain't business the royalty of the past? if the US militarah can produce the net, then who knows what Bologna will produce?

What's wrong with business? apart from the fact that it is busy-ness? versus the tortured theses of those less energetic than Zizek?

[aldoantunes]

He does a brilliant critique of the Bologna Process and of how it puts in danger the renewal of scientific and social/cultural ideas.

[adadaprout]

cocaïne mister Zizek ? what is the "nose trick" ? :)

[baronmorris]

in the grand tradition of freud and sherlock holmes... ;-)

[guido737]

este slavoj esta mas duro que una piedra

[abovethewaves]

archivegrl is DELIGHTED. magnificent.

[charlie1der]

All the nose touching. Is this guy on coke?

[samdonuge]

whatever it is, it's working

[jakob0815]

As far as I know he`s always like that...

[archivegrl]

As a current EGS student, I'm delighted to see Zizek on youtube. The opportunity to engage with thinkers of this magnitude on their current work is unavailable anywhere else. Compressed studies dictate a level of rigor among students that is remarkable.

[ZwolfZki]

& try the email for engagement with thinkers of magnitude.. I did & got it (for free).. as for rigor, try Mathematics or Physics.. I've a feeling that most of this work is the new Theology.. our grandchildren will be faintly embarrassed the time wasted on it.

[mkeenan1955]

However, compressed study can lead to 'information overload' as in my case this year at Saas-Fee. I think the question is, is EGS an authentic 'counterfoil institute' as in Lindisfarne, as it was, or Black Mountain College? In other words, does one really get an education at EGS, or is it merely an "information system" that has a lot of latitude?