Slavoj Zizek. LSE lecture(1 of 7)

Lecture titled 'Living in the End Times' given at the London School of Economics on the 1st July 2010. Audio podcast of this lecture is available at http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2010/20100701t1830vSZT.aspx

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• zizek
• living
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• economics
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• marx
• derrida

[Redjavaad]

what os the name of the indian theorist? I cant make it out.

[constablecomfortable]

@Redjavaad I think it is Saroj Giri who is a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Delh

[analord]

Does anyone know the name of the Indian philosopher he mentions at 2:03 ?

[constablecomfortable]

@analord I think it is Saroj Giri who is a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Delhi.

[bytedildo]

zizek has the same gameplan every lecture he does.

[chrish12345]

There seems to be an elephant in the room here. Zizek's whole plan is based on the idea that there is already a democracy in place, and that we would be able to create something new from that premise. Everyone however seems to have left out the European Union, which is essentially undemocratic and seemingly based in the main on the old Soviet system. Already it makes between 60-80% of UK law. Perhaps we need to try to re-establish the old democracies before we can move forward as Zizek suggests.

[analord]

@constablecomfortable thank you very much!