Slavoj Zizek. Plea for Ethical Violence. 2004 6/6

[RonneltheHypocrite]

It's just like when you tell yourself you must do some task, because otherwise you would be lazy; but you realize that you are, or might be, only doing it not to be lazy (not to be outside the fun); but Zizek is wrong when he says you are allowed not to (enjoy) be rigorous; it is simply that you are allowed to exercise your 'reason' in a open fashion. However Zizek misses the point, because he is always conditional on being in a certain narrow reference of possible weltanschauung

[veraquinorivas]

i think he grossly misunderstood levinas here, which i am not at liberty to discuss here. any serious student of levinas can readily agree with me, especially, on the notion of the 'third'. zizek made a lot of confusion here.

[Krelianx]

Extraordinary lecture, among Zizek's very best. I think his newest ones are much more elementary (geared towards introducing his thought in the US). This is a dense, deep, substantially radical lecture.

[sweetpotos]

Comrade Stalin would approve of this lecture.