Slavoj Zizek. Materialism and Theology. 2007 7/8

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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[honeybee41]

oh my god... what is the deal with this other guy in the video... I hope he's not affiliated with egs, lol

[egsvideo]

thank you for the comment. you have just experienced a minor debate between slavoj zizek and wolfgang schirmacher, the program director at media and communications department. the european graduate school believes in and promotes intellectual exchanges and heated discussions between students and faculty members. you should experience the class sessions and the disputes in the school lobby and lunch halls. ;) thank you.

[honeybee41]

hey, don't get me wrong. I'm working on a Dr-Ing in Mechanical Engineering in ilmenau Germany... ... but I'd waaaaaay rather be taking classes with Zizek at egs...

[egsvideo]

smile. both systems have advantages and disadvantages. the german system (pisa hin oder her) is providing a good and affordable general education while programs like egs focus on particular areas and strenghts. considering the quality of the program and tuition respective semestergebühren egs is certainly much more appealing than american universities, but it is nevertheless a private university-requiring contributions from the students to finance the program and faculty.thank you.

[chabrow]

Damn, Schirmacher is an unbearable smartass, trying to take Zizek from an ironic angle, but clearly lacking the intellectual capacities for that.

[Toxxi]

"hee hee hee!"

[skankingrhythmics]

@Neurotrash1982

Umad?

[ExEverest10]

@cuervacho I disagree; to call an opposing view tortorous is, conventionally, to give a compliment, in the sense that because this view is opposing it's going to be recieved negatively anyways, and because torture signifies a significant distress, such a description compliments the [relatively] incontrovertible nature of the viewpoint.

[Neurotrash1982]

My god... what is with all these spiteful comments to the host in this comments page??? Ok, so he made a clumsy intervention. Maybe he was simply anxious about something? I dont know... Is this really grounds for speaking about a scolar in such condemning terms? Have at least some courtesy if you cannot muster the dignity of respect. What did this guy do wrong? I mean, really...

[qalat23]

Mr .Schimacher try to be funny , but he is not funny at all , just like lost man ...........

[JaCorBoar]

I think transhumanism/biogentics or whatever is a good idea, but it needs to be cushioned with a maturity that I dont think the current "powers that be" have - if we are to have transhumanism then, the legal, ethical and structural foundations for its application and existence should be established before it is implemented, like Asimovs 3 laws of Robotics. Otherwise under our current Corporatist Oligarchy we will be forever programmed 4 nothing more than servitude of corrupt leaders. Thoughts?

[cuervacho]

Great comeback at 9:54.

[CPLains]

hihihihi

[folliu]

subtitles please

[thecommercialedge]

@SeracRavel ...in your head.