Slavoj Zizek. Materialism and Theology. 2007 6/8

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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[luxOculta]

great Zizek.

What about that guy at the end of the video? seems like a fashion designer...is he a philosopher aswell?

You know what guys?,i'm happy for you that study there,greetings from Argentina.

[egsvideo]

thank you for the comment - please read the other answer below. the person you are referring to is wolfgang schirmacher, the program director of the media and communication studies department at european graduate school egs, a schopenhauer expert.

as for egs, while we refrain from active marketing ;) - there shall be no barrier stopping you from sharing the learning experience here.

[MrBloody32]

I wanna kill the guy in the grey suit.

[egsvideo]

i truly hope that you do not mean that. actually i am convinced, that you did not really think it through: the person you are referring to is the founder of the media and communications department. without him - no department, no zizek, no open lectures at youtube - and no chance to add ironic comments.

[PessimisticHumanist]

"There is freedom only in an ontologically unfinished universe."

[suredoloveya]

Does anyone know the 'American Scientist' Z refers to at 0:11 and what is the 'ecological book'?

[agniky]

@egsvideo (he's annoying and should still be cut out of thee video - wonderful hegelian dialectics, we have to give him thanks though)

[MsJunglebird]

Interesting point on 0-multiplicity as an alternative to the 0-1 binary schema. You've gotta love Zizek, but it still sounds like his discourse limited to static concepts - kinda still stuck in Platonic forms/realism. Seems the essential question in materialist discourse, quantum physics, etc. is whether energy has telos. Whether energy has a logic or purpose (or simply random chaos) other than eternal existence/being.

[fahznab]

Job didn't lose his wife...

[Neurotrash1982]

@PessimisticHumanist really, not everyone is such a good public speaker. Do you really believe someone is simple-minded because they happen to fail to compell people to consider their ideas by speaking in public? Do you really think there could be no other reason for this? that kind of position is what really merits being suspect as "simple-minded", if you ask me... Ok so maybe he was being annoying. Do you really not see the superficiality of such a thing?

[runi8]

@MrBloody32 totally with you on that one...

[wall0645]

Did he just argue that Christ is a good theological argument for atheism?

[tyrbolo]

LOL Ben Jeshua was a loud mouthed communist agitator who the religious

community asked their fascist overlords to execute. Once he was safely dead

the priests of Serapis could hang their trappings on him and call him the Christ.

The instigator of this transformation had a nasty habit of making off with the

collections taken for the poor. Of course this was supernatural in origin.

[francopalombo]

when zizek rules the world: will be Gulag for you!

[shurednichso]

i lol'd ,edris47.