Slavoj Zizek. Materialism and Theology. 2007 5/8

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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[Krelianx]

Incredible story from the Polish elevator case.

[Krelianx]

Oh, and just in case anyone's interested in the formal deduction leading to the thesis that reality as a whole is non-all read Alain Badiou's Being and Event, Meditation 8 on Nature and the theory of ordinals. In the final section titled 'Nature does not Exist' he shows that there cannot be an ordinal of all ordinals (the concept of 'nature') since this leads to the contradiction of self-belonging. Zizek's 'non-all' is basically a simplification of the same concept.

[yawnandjokeoh]

I am enjoying watching these, I don't know how much the ruling class ideology - word play -Zizek is using has value, never the less I am enjoying it.

However I did notice that he uses "opium of the masses" in the vulgar sense - as a hypnotic ideology, not as a pain killing ideology (the spirit of the spiritless world).

The popular Marx quote gets misused in this way a lot, its odd that Zizek uses it as such. Because there is nothing overtly comforting about ecology, is there?

[timetochilli]

fuck sake my lecturer was chattin such rubbish about materialism and so on fanks for the nelightenment slajov zizek

[MultiHogleg]

@coprographia I don't think he's badmouthing ecology, his point is that sometimes, the way a problem is understood can be part of the problem - so in the case of ecology, by thinking of nature as balance, we don't realise that nature is crazy and because it is crazy and out of control we have to see it as a serious threat - we can't expect the world to fix itself (maybe subconsciously we think that)

[coprographia]

I always lose wood the instant he starts badmouthing ecology. I don't have to believe in some all-wise earth mother to think humanity's going to shit the bed if we try to manipulate genes.

[elcaballodecaligula]

You are just probing Zizek's point.

[patnais102]

His whole idea of lifeforms 2.0 being against the whole idea of nature is cheesy. The man is part of nature even if we create life we will only take part of nature fix them together and pass electricity in it.Even if we create life we will still be only a piece in nature.I see our self as the brain of our planet.

[chattabox]

your a moron

[XsavagistX]

white people talk too much