Slavoj Zizek - Rules, Race, and Mel Gibson 2006 1/8

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]

Unlike you, peterbojkov. A real genius of the times. I'd like to read one of your books. Maybe one of your papers objecting Zizek.

[noselfnoproblemo]

If you dont get this guy, stop talking untill you do! Hes not a whole lot more "deep" than a 15 year old asking lifes tough questions. He didnt acheive his acclaim by being too deep for the common sheeple.Just listen and listen with the intent of possibly having a little ah ha momment. Hes realy a peoples phillosopher. I know I cant spell.

[Rmahda]

@ShamanicMCCosmology and its been shut down cuz of how stupid it was ahhaahhaha

[Checo384775]

What should the first rule be, I could not hear?

[FuzzypegX]

@Intelectual95 I have to agree with the fellow below. There is a certain irony in somebody who can't even spell intellectual correctly talking about "pseudo-intellectuals"... excuse me, "faggot pseudo-intellectuals", because obviously homophobia is synonymous with education.

[ShamanicMCCosmology]

@Intelectual95 lmao, ur youtube account username is intelectual95 ... how lame

[pasheko152]

@ididete don't be so absolute! the people that firstly embraced Zizek are exactly the people who have read Plato or Lacan or Heidegger or Kant or, or...

[ididete]

@Krelianx You should read just one Plato's dialogue, or at least one Lacan's text and thoroughly understand it, or Kant's Critique of Practical Reason, or Heidegger's Being and Time -- and you will see that Zizek is just an intelligent clown, nothing more.

[koreindian1]

@Krelianx I didn't know you needed to be published in a journal to have an opinion.

[MsPamAnn]

In Eastern and Central Europe, Jews dominated the international prostitution traffic that networked to North and South America, to India, Greece, and Europe. Jewish pimps preyed mostly on non-Jewish women. Many of the Jewish underworld figures saw no gap between their prostitution trafficking and their religious lives. A Warsaw thug, Shlomo Letzsky, organized a synagogue for Jewish madams, and pimps. This criminal community even had a rabbinical court to settle disputes between pimps.” ——-

[karabangbang]

@Intelectual95

While agreeing with u that Zizek sometimes goes over the top I still can't help noticing that you miss an 'l' and furthermore disqualify yourself by shouting faggot and using 'slovenian' in a derogatory way (yeah, you didnt meant it that way;)

Jebem ti prvi red na sahrani, picko fasisticka!

[Intelectual95]

Zizek is highly overrated. Have any of you even read one of his works, let alone comprehended one of them? Do you need your intellectual food handed to you in the form of a whacky slovenian youtube personality before you'll pay any attention?

I despise this new breed of faggot pseudo-intellectuals the internet is churning out - people who haven't read a book in their lives, yet fancy themselves philosophers. Go and namedrop Zizek to your hipster friends you failures.