Slavoj Žižek - The Spectators Malevolent Neutrality

Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher and Psychoanalyst from Ljubljana. His
lecture on the specific roles of viewers and doers is entitled "The
Spectator´s Malevolent Neutrality" and was held on June 8, 2004 during
the Theaterformen festival in Brunswick (DE)

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[blueoystercult22]

6:45 to skip the spiel



[mileslilly2]

this may be the most focused Zizek lecture I've seen yet

[wildabeast11235]

This dude is on a shit load of coke.

[wesnfred]

don't wanna crash the party, but what's the book that they mention in the beginning? in which the author says "Women doesn't exist"?

[highway234]

7:15 to also skip the German.

[zadaszenie]

1:15:53/4 boobs!!!!

[jradetzky]

@jozeer88 why? even though his accent is strong, his English (and most importantly his thinking) is really clear

[jradetzky]

@100FingeredMonkey all decent philosophers speak German

[curiosofsigns]

@cogitheum I'd recommend Todd McGowan's The End of Dissatisfaction? for all that stuff. It's an excellent intro to Lacan and to how his theories relate to the "society of enjoyment".

[cogitheum]

@RobertErac thank you.

[RobertErac]

As for where it comes from: the ideologies always stage themselves before the gaze of a Big Other - they are always for someone watching. In Lacan's formulation, the Big Other is inherent within language as the ultimate and final destination of linguistic utterances: if you will, it is the kind of massive, universe-sized, all-time totality of language and thought themselves. May sound strange, seeing as Zizek disagrees with it, but read "Anti Oedipus," subbing Big Other for Despotic Signifier

[RobertErac]

@cogitheum The Big Other can't be killed as such - Lacan claimed that it didn't even exist, and that some part of the purpose of psychoanalysis was this realization; any kind of "murder" of the Big Other is always itself a staged act, like the Nietzschean "death of God," replacing positive content with negative, empty, purely structural fascination.