Slavoj Zizek - Rules, Race, and Mel Gibson 2006 5/8

http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Zizek talking about the explicit, truth, rules, politics, Mel Gibson, society, race, racism, antisemitism; lecturing and developing a psychoanalysis of culture and societies. Public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2006, 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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[egsvideo]

ok, i will compress the video and upload again, thanks for reporting this.

[egsvideo]

Hi NechCo, here it downloads normal, i will wait and see if someone else has problems and upload it again since right now I'm busy uploading Judith Butler's 2006 open lecture.

[charlieparent2006]

i am sympathetic with your comment, but don't forget, what he points out is that ALL states are founded upon a violent act. it is just, he says, that Israel was founded a few centuries too late, so we are witnessing a battle to create such a founding myth that would legitimate such violence. most interestingly, perhaps, is that with a two state solution, that myth will have two versions.

[lGnossos]

I agree it's courageous of zizek to point out the atrocity of the Israeli/Palestinian situation, but he certainly wasn't the first. Although Chomsky and Finklestein and Said likely weren't the first, they've been writing about it for years and years.

[tarif4end]

My salute to zizek bravery, the first western thinker who addresses the Palestinian issue and talk about the criminality of the state of Israel with such fearless commitment to the Palestinian rights and justice away from the biased cliché of current western media ..if only there's a lot like you zizek lots of things would've changed .

[HebaruSan]

I also have severe problems with this video. I have been able to watch all the others in realtime, but after nearly an hour of waiting, I still only have about 5 minutes loaded on this one.

[NechCo]

this video is not working proparly, could you upload it again, it does not upload as fast as the others