Slavoj Zizek. About European Graduate School. 2006 1/2

http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Zizek interviewed by Wei Chan and Christian Haenggi, talking about European Graduate School, teaching philosophies and academia, and referring to Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Giorgio Agamben, and Noam Chomsky. Slavoj Zizek Free public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2006 Slavoj Žižek
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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[iwpoe]

This is the best university commercial I've ever seen.

[francotenelli]

This guy is incredible-don't share half of what he says but he is absolutly right about academic studies-they are in huge crises

[ApocalypticDevotee]

Finny how communists live so well in the western world.

[Kubooxooki]

My Gott, why don't we make a theory out of... private jokes?!!! That pretty much sums up Zizek for me.

[blackronin09]

@theOfactor39 Your comment made me laugh hard! It does not happen very often with youtube comments!

[ChempionGlobe]

¿Is it politically incorrect to assume "egs" is code for "balls", a certain unalienable Creator-endowed set?

watch?v=H_AW8soxIa8

[theOfactor39]

this guy's ideas are all over the place, just like the bowl of cereal I threw while listening to this

[MrFpenteado]

I like Zizek althought so much Marx has flaws....Anyway this nose touching is intriguing (and annoying) : either its coke or sinusitis, it can't be anything else than these two...

[onoludilo]

Reminder: 6:19 :))))))))))

[Patriol666]

is a potential danger to many trends in our society, like tolerance or identity.

so it is no accident, that he has many enemies. then, it's also not important, if his ideas are right or not.

[jradetzky]

"u ask urself a question and you answer it"

LOL

sounds pretty much like my PhD

[jradetzky]

@MrDiceman9000 you need to see the world dude, most people speak with heavy accents