Slavoj Zizek. Need for Action and Thinking. 2009 11/12

http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Zizek, professor at European Graduate School speaking about radical thinking and the future of Europe at the X. Bled Forum on Europe, The Role of Culture in Knowledge Society, March 7th, 2009, Bled Forum on Europe Association, Bled, Slovenia. Slavoj Zizek lecturing about radical thinking, politics, culture, differentation, difference, markets, countries, commodities, the decaffeinated other, the state of emergency, popular culture, learning, wife, mistress, shock therapies, capitalism, urgencies and priorities, crisis and funding. European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2009, Slavoj Zizek.

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[victoriaapril02]

@dAvrilthebear

Listen to his fragmentary words a bit more carefully: Zizek's point is not "we know that we don't know"; his claim is this: "we can't make 100% secure decisions; nonetheless, we need to act on the basis of knowledge from the past; after doing so, we need to retroactively appropriate and "know" what we have done; at present, we are moving relatively too fast without properly knowing what we have done in the past."

[dAvrilthebear]

Basically he told us he doesn't know what to do. Well, maybe that's a revelation every philosopher should reach -- like some ancient Greek philosopher wrote "I know only that I don't know anything".