Slavoj Zizek. Materialism and Theology. 2007 4/8

http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Zizek lecturing about materialism and theology, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and the psychoanalysis of culture and societies. Videolecture focuses on fundamentalism, materialism, theology, atheism, atheists, humanists, humanism, reason, logic, rationality, intelligent design, believe, faith, religion, christian, christianity, islam, fundamentalists, fundamentalism, god, nature, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2007, 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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[yourmumsucksdick]

This video synthetically resembles a hostage video

[RealityEngines]

His description of "the game" is a good description of the brain/mind Virtual Reality that we experience. What we think of as "reality" is actually an illusionary product of the conscious brain/mind system.

[HansBelmondo]

"incomplete reality"? - thats bad inductive metaphysics. he shouldnt naively ontologize quantum physics. better analyze the logic of physics.

[ElSameo]

@RealityEngines (cont.) The reason I prefer 'virtual' is because this can still mean that what we experience is representative of reality even if it isn't the whole story, as opposed to 'illusion' which sounds like what we think we know we actually don't. Perhaps you don't agree?

[scttzwdrff]

If reality is the multiplicity of multiplicities, then these multiplicities function as atoms. I don't think the "one" can be "escaped." I suggest the being and unity are logically inseparable. I suspect that this idea is at least as old as Parmenides. Plato's unwritten doctrine, as recorded by Aristotle and others, speaks to this notion. In any case, this is a great video. Thanks for posting.

[thetwentyfourth]

Yes! Reality is made of emptiness.

[helto87]

You are not smarter than the creator if it's what you are saying, for an creator to create so many logical, natural and biological laws it has to be a creator of existance. think twice!

use your hearts! and consicious minds!

[davevontexas]

Yeah, I've heard the joke, "do the Zizou!": as if cheap inversions are just another dance craze. But I can't help it -- I like this guy. If normal rationality gave us Vietnam, Nicaragua and Iraq, who's to say that inverted normal-ness is wrong?

[Metzgermeistr]

Indeed. But we do know it will be us that scorch the sky.

Gotta have that third pill.

[Q2W3e4r5tss]

This guy has tourette

[danielsiq]

hahaha the hypothesis is very creative, but if the reason god exists, in the hypothesis, is because he is timeless and all-knowing than its impossible, because god WOULD know we were gonna look there.

Even our programmers know this, the reason more and more games have highly interactive scenarios ;)