Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler & Larry Rickels. Psychoanalysis. 2006 1/3

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

@bbravo2 Zizek uses dirty jokes,ticks,and hand gestures to appea

[ElasticGiraffe]

Zizek is SO difficult to follow. He seriously needs to lay off the amphetamines. His accent, lisp, and impassioned delivery wouldn't be so bad if he weren't so stream-of-consciousness in his monologues and he took time to breathe in between sentences.

[suddenlyitsobvious]

Butler's main objective is to uncouple sex from its biological foundations and make it as insignificant as the purchase of a cone of chocolate icecream.

The means: semantics and discursive signifiers.

Unfortunately, the essence of gayness and what it actually is

does not enter into consideration. It's all about fighting "heteronormative oppression."

But in that process, how are the identities of the minorities actually being

modified? They're LEVELLED with the "oppressor's" paradigm!.

[Feuerader]

Any subtitles to what Zizek says?

[taratasarar]

Great stuff!

[renumeratedfrog]

Zizek could be talking about his morning bowel movements, and it would still sound fascinating!

[BrunoAlvesCoelho]

Butler uses a very cheap psichological tactic to make Zizek nervous.

He gets clearly shaked by it but Is still able to expose his ideas well and properly crush her.^^

[SwedxSimon02]

Hand gestures keeps the mob pleased

[bbravo2]

butler is most appealing thinker to me, but she and rickels cant be accused of being charismatic. zizek is incredibly entertaining to watch.

[cacrow]

Entertaining, yes. I do find the theatrics distracting at times, but maybe that's part of the point.

[newfan7]

Psychoanalysis is only a doctrine in its theory and a sort of brain washing in practice.

In psychoanalysis the dynamics of social communication isn't understand yet until nowadays.

The forces between two individuals in a dialogue are mostly aware to both and can be felt.

[TheNomadicMonad]

Zizek is great, the other two are just confused bluffers.

[MahatmaClarity]

I also disagree.

[ultrak0w]

man i cant hear rickels.. also there are some volume issues on the agamben vids... is there anything you can do about it ?

[Jaspergh]

It's really difficult to listen to Zizek because of the overwhelming urge to have sex with him.

[crassconversational]

What? He's just pop-culture-meets-theory in the most forceful bastardization of critical thinking--

[ultrak0w]

why is pop culture not an acceptable element of sound critical theory given that it plays an important role in the world today

[MartianManhunter1987]

Interesting point. Surely a thoroughgoing engagement with pop culture is a valid route to follow.

How would you define pop culture. Is it like the common sense knowledge that we engage with and reproduce on a daily basis?

[yummy314159265]

i know what you mean

[crassconversational]

thank you--i'm glad i'm not the only person who sees this.

[ToroAzzurro]

i absolutely disagree

[singerboy89]

How fine the line we walk between intellect/knowing and anxiety/insanity. I hear what he's saying, but I can't help but "see" him too. If it's not telling of something it's at least strange. Hmm. But I think it means something.

[feifeishuangyu]

Zizek is a brilliant thinker!

[perryoparsons]

but his accent is so funny :)

[feifeishuangyu]

Zizek is a brilliant thinker!

[feifeishuangyu]

Zizek is brilliant thinker

[theholyghost]

I think he's still stuck in the oral stage.

[Steeevyo]

Stop sniffing and picking so much Zizek.

Everybody will think you're a cokehead.

[juancreyna]

See Rickels hold his throat while Zizek is talking about Freud's deadlock. Talk about body language!

[3rdWorldCrusader]

Out of all the stillness in the room you see Zizek's little arms flailing around. lol

Gotta love the man's body language.

[CarmillaRaven]

THis very good!!!

[bytedildo]

zizek's mind is so fast

[ipalindromei]

i seriously wonder if he's a cokehead

[whimcynical]

So do I : see the way he keeps on touching his nose?

[samuelsackeroff]

Zizek moves in the opposite way that Butler does (Classic American/Continental divide), and Butler seems to know it. Unfortunately, Zizek doesn't seem to be making much use of his erratic mode. He and Butler have completely different investments in thinking. Butler is looking for justice, Zizek for aesthetics.

[ipalindromei]

what with all of zizek's support for popular movements across the world, i'd say he's "looking for justice" to some degree.

which is not to negate your point, which made a lot of sense.

[ShineThePath]

I think Zizek and Badiou are beyond Laclau and Ranciere...but perhaps I am clinging on to too much Althusser

[eyemran]

You a reader of Badiou?

[0neironaut]

i think youre clinging too much to the Author.

[simonesimone2]

i have no idea what you are referring too.

[0neironaut]

i wonder if Zizeks increasing popularity has more to do with his style of delivery than it does with his actual ideas.

[regalkidney]

Who's to say that style and content can be separated so easily?

Obviously, if Zizek were just another dispassionate, stodgy intellectual, writing technical books on Lacan and the like, he wouldn't be getting nearly as much attention as he is. (Can you imagine the "Pervert's Guide to Cinema" hosted by the guy after Zizek, who's about as charismatic as a brick wall?)

[regalkidney]

But I suspect the people who want to look down on Zizek's pop appeal as "mere style" are motivated largely by resentment. It's clear to me that Zizek's "style of delivery" requires a real brilliance, and, far from a mere flourish, I'd say it's central to the content. Frankly, I think it's a shame the American university system produces so few scholars who connect with their discipline with such passionate engagement, and so many who seem to approach it as just another technical exercise.

[0neironaut]

WOW! look at you go. But, nowhere did i say that he wasnt truly brilliant and doesnt have more to offer than mere spectacle. I was making a general claim about the motivations of his audience. How many times do i read "i dont know what he is talking about, but he sure is fun to watch!"

Like Zizek says of himself... the reason people prefer to see him as a Jester is itself telling: theyre afraid to consider his ideas seriously, fearing that perhaps he may actually be on to something.

[mynameistrue]

the same could have been said of Lacan.

[Ellocojuannn]

Laclau is missing here... Zizek always fucks it up when he tries to condense Lacan and Hegel in the same theoretical system. Laclau and Rancière are way beyond that...

[abovethewaves]

what happened to all of of the other youtube Zizek lectures?...they have all disappeared from the web within the last 2 weeks :-(...Im guessing it concerns copyright issues.

[egsvideo]

we have observed the same thing. be assured though, that our videos won't disappear, instead we will try to upload more and more of the lectures. please be patient for the next videos. thank you.

[johhnyturbo]

@abovethewaves If you're reffering to Mariborchan's collection, I think it might be because he had the full video of both the documentary Zizek! and A Pervert's Guide to Cinema. Hosting two whole films was the only thing that I imagine could of resulted in taking down a whole channel anyway.

[a3sadi]

zizek is a king!

[anon250]

More!

[egsvideo]

thank you for the comment. there are more lectures of zizek and butler on youtube and we will add more. please be patient ... thank you.

[aufzugsmonteur]

we want more from slavoj zizek. thank you

[fernsehen765765]

Thank you.