Slavoj Zizek. Todestrieb as a Philosophical Concept 2009 1/8

http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Zizek, professor at European Graduate School speaking about the Todestrieb as a Philosophical Concept at the at Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin Germany, March 6, 2009. Slavoj Zizek lecturing about todestrieb, death drive, death wish, sigmund freud, jenseits des lustprinzips, beyond the pleasure principle, state, tension, repetition, compulsion, death, negation, affirmation, schopenhauer, nuetzsche, annihilation, life, absence, dying, guilt, pain, lacan, desire, lost, difference. European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2009, 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 Kies'lowski 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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[scarletghoul]

he is moving a lot less than usual

[Ieshido]

It's cool that the audio file is such low quality because Zizek is such a clear speaker.

[AirSandFire]

@dAvrilthebear And then proceeds to tell them anyway.

[dAvrilthebear]

Zizek begins every lecture by promising not to tell dirty jokes and not to be a clown. :)

[shegavemearainbow]

yeah, miurararufu's audio is WAY clearer and you get a picture, which helps but isn't always needed.

thanks egs for uploading this anyhow!

[TheMariborchan]

This lecture was also uploaded in video format by the user called miurararufu. It can be found in YouTube search.

[thisisrealyo]

I wish that picture moved at random times. A finger lifting or an eye blinking. That would be fun.