Slavoj Zizek. Plea for Ethical Violence. 2004 1/6

http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Zizek talking about the Plea for ethical violence, the logic of the system, ethical pressure, harassment, violence of power and politics, ideology, religion and law, reproducing through censorship and repression, Emmanuel Lévinas, objectivity, objectification, self expression and courses without titles. Slavoj Zizek in a free public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2006 Slavoj Žižek.

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. 1992, Tarrying With the Negative, Durham, New Carolina: Duke University Press. 1993, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan, But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock,1993, The Metastates of Enjoyment,1994, The Indivisible Remainder: Essays on Schelling and Related Matters, 1996, The Abyss of Freedom, University of Michigan Press. 1997, The Plague of Fantasies, Multi-culturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multi-national Capitalism, New Left Review, issue 225 pgs. 28--51, The Ticklish Subject, 1999, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (authored with Judith Butler and Ernesto Laclau), Verso. 2000, The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway, Washington: University of Washington Press. The Fragile Absolute, 2000, Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?. 2001, The Fright of Real Tears: Kryzystof Kieślowski Between Theory and Post-Theory, British Film Institute (BFI), On Belief, Routledge. Opera's Second Death, Repeating Lenin, Zagreb: Arkzin D.O.O. 2001, Welcome to the Desert of the Real, 2002, Revolution at the Gates: Žižek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings, Organs Without Bodies. 2003, The Puppet and the Dwarf, 2003, Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle, 2004, Interrogating the Real, London, Continuum International Publishing Group. 2005, The Universal Exception, London, 2006, Neighbors and Other Monsters (in The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology), Cambridge, Massachusetts: University of Chicago Press. The Parallax View, How to Read Lacan, New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2007

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[joven35]

Thank you so much for these videos! I love your lectures!

[egsvideo]

dear joven, thank you for the comment. be assured, that we wont rest until we have depleted our archives. there are more gems on its way. thank you

[bingedark]

he is so sexy =)

[4cats1room]

he's almost the epitome of sexy.

[bringthoughtfulness]

Zizek just makes the mount hereb moment a clone of Lacan's backwards reasoning (reverse psychology) , but actually it means something quite different; in anycase if we accept Zizek's dumb ass view it becomes obvious the new age and the totalitarian law are pairs in a spectrum that need to be Hegelized

Oh so locke is Jewish and Berkeley new age; nice. Zizek is simple minded as always. The reason Levinas says that is only because the face is not transcendent, only because he is emphasizing this.

[andrshog]

@AntonioMainenti "Permissivity" I think, i.e. "permissiveness". I think I've also heard him say "theologist" a few times. Endearing.

[rodrigoncdantas]

subtitles please!!!!!!!

[shackleton12]

@crassconversational

no, ur a simulacrum.

[TomRiverstone]

Pappa Zhizho!

[jumpnjza2]

prebecibi...duh??

[theholyghost]

overall, though, i would say a good quote to take away from this lecture from zizek is, "contrary to what people think, the message from pyschoanalysis is precisely: "no, enjoyment is NOT the fundamental category of your existence."" zizek says so much of society is focused on enjoying ourselves. what is freedom in america? freedom to enjoy and consume? there is an ethical element here related to what i wrote (and zizek talked about) previously vis a vis levinas that is worth listening to again.

[Krelianx]

No, because some things are not capable of being translated into simple terms in this world, and Zizek is not a fast food thinker.