Slavoj Zizek. Materialism and Theology. 2007 2/8

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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[nontikor]

This doesn't work :(

[egsvideo]

thank you for the comment. it was working before - 4400 viewers cant be wrong - but it seems to be that youtube messed it up. i contacted the tech department of youtube. thank you.

[zarahFO]

I'm not religious, but FINALLY we get some sensible response to the CRAP wheeled out to the masses by the likes of Richard Dawkins!

[partofnopart]

be careful how you use 'we' in this context. I sincerely doubt that continental philosophers would agree with your confusing interpretation of the differences between the two branches of philosophy.

Although he is difficult to keep up with, it is ridiculous to claim zizek's analyses are crazy and not anchored in experience. Just take a moment to examine the incredibly wide range of sources from which he draws; especially the sociological material...of course this might involve learning...

[sama05]

@remittancegirl..... your missing something... 2+2= 4... not matter how says it... Arabic proverb.. listen to what is being said...not who is talking.... Thus your argument over Iran's social condition is irrelavant...

[lajungesombre]

@remittancegirl he is nn engineer and teacher. so he is at least educated despite his political failings.

[remittancegirl]

Although he makes a lot of good points, I really have to wonder why he chooses to quote Ahmadinejad as having, somehow, a better hold on reason than either George Bush or the Pope. Not that I'm a great fan of either of them, but at least neither of them are presiding over a country that legally hangs 16-year olds for promiscuity.

[berny256]

Theology is the rational and systematic study.... systematic? Todays theology isnt systematic at all. There are many theological views. Theology is "fides querens intellectum" - so theology is just thinking your faith. Theology is not a system nor a philosophy. It can use some philosophical, psihological, logical concepts, but it isnt exclusiv. Eugen Drewermann got suspended because of his exclusiv attitude - just depth psychology! Ratzingers theology is not the only one.

[Swede172]

@zarahFO

Dawkins is almost 100% right. So is Zizak. From their respective point of views.

We either or or? I like them both.

[msizer]

I agree with Zizek about how Ratzinger is basically scientifically illiterrate, but he seems to be suggesting that muslim doctrine is better than the christian. They're both just cultural constructs loaded with mythology and a wide range of practitioners from total nutters to nobel prize winners. I don't see how belief in god in any colour is rational period.

[grtrich555]

Are u kidding me? Zizek is an idiot who believes Ahamdininejad is the "correct" one? He believes in the phony PR quote of Ahamadi inviting Bush to "Logic, Peace Ahmadi spirtual advisor is Yazdi who is advocating the End of the World so Mehdi could come and strong believers toward a form of government advocated by the Talibans in Afghanistan!. These people rape, torture, no freedom of speech more jailed journalist than any country.. Completely Coked up fool u are Zizek! Retire you idiot!

[plaidzinc]

@zarahFO Wow great argument. I liked the part where you defined and reasoned the "CRAP" Dawkins and co speak of. Bravo.

[Alen2379]

why is he so nervous? look at this gestures, rapid hand movements and everything. something's not right. is he on drugs or something?

[zernestro]

@GoldenBoughTrader as far as i'm concerned (not much though, but enough), it's hard to do hardly anything over the internet. i mean action. so i hope that at the moment you wrote your words,you knew that you will not be able to act about anything in anyway. so act in your local or temporal area.

Because the topic is about what he is saying, not his gesture... you wanna discuss that?