Slavoj Zizek. Anti-Semitism, Anti-Semite and Jew. 2009 6/8

http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Zizek confronting anti-semitism, zionism, Israel, jews, and Palestine, using, and in contrast to, the works of Jacques Lacan, Alain Baidou, Karl Marx, and Alfred Hitchcock amongst others, in a lecture at the European Graduate School, or EGS, in Saas Fee, Switzerland. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2009 Slavoj Zizek. Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian post-modern philosopher and psychonalayst as well as one of the foremost cultural critics operating in the world today. Slavoj Žižek holds a chair at the Institute for Sociology in Ljubljana as well as being a returning professor at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee Switzerland. There is little in contemporary thought that Zizek has not explored on some level. From communism to maoism, film studies to literature, and from Lenin to the issue of torture in the post-9/11 world, Slavoj Žižek's work has, and continues to, inform the dialogue that surrounds them. Zizek's first book in English translation, The Sublime Object of Ideology, examines the issues surrounding the placement of "sublime objects" in a regime's iconography which allow it to transgress or alter commonly accepted moral law or thought. It is these objects—be it God, Fuhrer, Dear Leader or Land, the Flag, Democracy—that allow the regimes to "self-sanctify" their actions. While much of Zizek's work is strictly philosophical or pyschoanalytical dealing with Hegel, Kant, Freud and Lacan, since 9/11 his work has become increasingly political, directly referencing the illegal actions taken by the Bush administration and the complicit nature of the European regimes of Blair, Sarkozy and Berlusconi. Slavoj Žižek's latest title, analyzing the financial meltdown of 2009, First As Tragedy, Then As Farce, will be released in November of 2009.

Slavoj Zizek is the author of The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989), For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment As A Political Factor (1991), Looking Awry: an Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture(1991), Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid To Ask Hitchcock) (1992), Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan In Hollywood And Out (1992), Tarrying With The Negative: Kant, Hegel And The Critique Of Ideology (1993), Mapping Ideology (1994), The Metastases Of Enjoyment: Six Essays On Woman And Causality (Wo Es War) (1994), The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay On Schelling And Related Matters (1996), Gaze And Voice As Love Objects (1996), The Plague of Fantasies (1997), The Abyss Of Freedom Ages Of The World (1997), The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (1999), Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out (2000), Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (with Judith Butler and Ernesto Laclau) (2000), The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime, On David Lynchs Lost Highway (2000), The Fragile Absolute or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For (2000), On Belief (2001), The Fright of Real Tears, Kieslowski and The Future (2001), Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Five Essays on the (Mis)Use of a Notion (2001), The Puppet and the Dwarf (2003), Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences (2003), Iraq The Borrowed Kettle (2004) and, most recently, Violence in 2008.

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[Rmahda]

@aimeeplltr actually jews in iran are respected more than people of the baha'i faith, i know from first hand experience, jewish people in iran are migrating on their own will, they are not being forced out... any religious minority will face prejudice but overall jews of iran are active members of society. Its the bahai faith that is being ethnically cleansed here, not the jews

[ButherLi55ett]

Great last point he makes. The timing is interesting. It's to be expected though, at the moment there is loads of 'subtle' ideology generally on tv in reaction to the crisis. All sorts of programmes about what you can do to save money as a an individual etc And it's all done in a overly friendly and patronising way. It's like, look there is a crisis but there is no alternative. Let's be nice and i'll show you can cut back on your food shopping but still eat tasty food!

[hurting]

"No problem" is a distortion, but the narrative of eternal Jewish suffering in the diaspora that many Jews (including myself) were raised on in the 20th Century is also a distortion that serves the end of Zionism as the "only solution."

[aimeeplltr]

Zizek is so wrong about "no problem" that you can live as a Jew in Iran... There is "a problem" there and in Arab states. Iranian Jews are under siege. That the truth he won't see for the sake of his argument. Jews in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc. are absent. They have been expelled and are rejected without any reason other than they are Jewish. The limits of this brilliant mind is that it is too abstract. Zizek, you are better than that. Or aren't you...

[barrywinehousexp]

8:48, Ernst Nolte's thesis, somewhat.

The political schematic Slavoj sketches towards the end of the video seems lacking, I wish he would take some more time for Syndicalism and Anarchism, seeing as he has somewhat displaced Chomsky as the major radical spokeperson of the 'Left'.