Slavoj Zizek - Rules, Race, and Mel Gibson 2006 4/8

http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Zizek talking about the explicit, truth, rules, politics, Mel Gibson, society, race, racism, antisemitism; lecturing and developing a psychoanalysis of culture and societies. Public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2006, Slavoj Zizek.
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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[Krelianx]

Why would the development of previously heterosexual males into pedophilia through their involvement with the Church be a matter of 'unwritten rules' and not of an involuntary and non-coveted biological change? Farmers develop zoophilia just like prison inmates homosexuality not because their institutions have an obsene undertext which reads '...and you can have sex with animals" or "...and you can become a homosexual!" The analogy with the Nazi example is not well grounded...

[calamaro70]

Bright remarks of Zizek. Thanks for sharing this.

[jeselmira2]

It is distressing to see how quickly Zizek accepts the proposition that pederasty is some kind of intrinsic practice or policy of the catholic clergy. This is a rather naive perspective on almost every level. As noted elsewhere statistics show pedophilia is not statistically more common in the c.c. than analogous institutions--which would mean that the church does a very poor job attracting and manufacturing pedophiles. His reasoning here is acharacteristically cheap. He is smarter than this.

[mes999her]

you really should listen more closely, really.. and the change you're talking about is not biological, it's psychological

[mirran21]

Who developed this concept of 'the neighbor' and what exactly does it explain?

[Hokayshenao]

"[. . .] the spear of influence" is a quote, but one such as this is less used. The use of theory is interesting.

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[brendanmcooney]

wow. that "end of belief" stuff is scary. It reminds me of how quickly tasers have caught on in law enforcement.

[warmperson2007]

Interesting person to listen too. I love those clips. Thanks for posting.

[calamaro70]

Bright remarks of Zizek. Thanks for sharing this.