Slavoj Zizek. Anti-Semitism, Anti-Semite and Jew. 2009 3/8

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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[Odedisra]

OoPs! You missed the point.. There is indeed a new kind of Anti-Semitism, but it's not against those Jews who refuse to identify with the Jewish state - it is against those Jews who are part of this Jewish state, and against those who support them!

The Anti-Semites just can't stand the idea that the Jews manged to regain a hold of their ancient homeland and can now live a free national life in their own free national state like any other normal people - so they came up with ""Anti-Zionism""...

[zarkoasenov]

@tiborvivi speaking an european language unlike you now back to asia tartar

[tiborvivi]

what language this affectionate bozo is speaking? not english thats for sure.

[Salamwamat]

Zizek is out of touch. Zionism is the movement to craete a Jewish state. Trying to descibe it as opposite to Judaism just pictures Zizek as a propagandist wacko.

[daledheyalef]

AHaha Zizek is one clever motherfucker. Does anyone know if he talks about "Zionist Antisemitism" in any of his books?

[stantonmick]

this segment is particularly good. worth watching a few times in the finer points of the argument ( the idea of zionist anti-semeticism)

[hurting]

Your comment just makes plain the absurdity of anti-semitism - somehow it becomes the root of nearly all ideologies, including those in direct opposition to each other. How such a small religion could be responsible for so much is inexplicable, but the small size only contributes to your lack of experience with it and thus your ability to otherize it and mystify it.

[PancakeFlaunter]

*Zionism causes many political problems

[AlcesteEIL]

Sionism is the resolution of the problem of the totalitarian movement of ressentiment & rebellion against the world which we know as judaism (and which has produced broader versions of itself, also alienated and alienating: christianity and islam, as well as more recently jacobinism, communism, nazism, and today full-blown rights-o-mano-third-worldism).