Interview with Slavoj Zizek and Russell Sbriglia on Hegel 

Love all of this, poor Russell though, I think he only got 5 words in the whole time. The conversation was so excellent though and I am so glad I found Todd McGowan through watching Zizek lectures, because I think Todd's work is at least as good as Zizek's and, for me, more comprehensible.

"with some minor digressions" Ah, that sounds like the Slavoj we know and love.

Also, Todd McGowan, please do an episode on Melville with Russell Sbriglia!

damn, we get Slavoj and Zizek? you spoil us

Also, I completely agree that Hegel anticipates Quantum Mechanics. Todd probably couldn't recite from memory but there are some uncanny examples in Phenomenalogy of Spirit that sound similar to QM principals. For example, "Heisenberg's Microscope" and when he talks about the "standard" by which a subject compares his object of knowledge to the "real" thing. And how one dynamically alters it.

The slip of 'artisan' to 'partisan' is splendid

This was great! Thanks to all involved.

Oh, hell yeah!

before i watch it, i must say i thought the title "interview with slavoj and zizek" was one of your jokes todd.

Hegel would have already grasped the possibility of relativity, just look in the phenomenology section on force and the understanding. How do they not mention this?

This was good. Loved the Colombo reference & Slavoj's self-effacing humour at the end. Subbed etc.

thank you for the talk. i'm looking forward to the 2nd part of this meeting

Zizek: "...these qualities." Todd: "yes, thats right- no! And...yeah he is the big other and..." Zizek: "....AND HERE! I WOULD HAVE TO AGREE WITH OUR FRIEND..."

around 25min I had to laugh at the idea of Totalitarianism with limits. a modest totalitarian

Fantastic conversation. Regarding the clitoris, there is a nice little essay by Stephen Jay Gould "Male Nipples and Clitoris Ripples," where he critiques Freud's misconception of feminine sexuality. After all, clitoris is a strange remainder of the phallus, anatomically speaking at least. A more critical psychoanalytic reading is necesssary. Also, interesting that Žižek mentioned Hegel's conception of police. I'd say, it is precisely the status of the relation between police (and coorporations) as the culmination of civil society (both of which try negate the very negativity of free market) and the State is precisely the most crucial question if we want to understand the political in Hegel's work.

15:10 - Structure of Contingency

My guy!! I did not know Todd had a channel ^o^

What exactly is the criticism of Marx that both you and Zizek agree on? I'm not really sure I'm broadly understanding the issue you are both finding in Marx's work (perhaps it's too dense to put into the space of a youtube comment but hopefully you can point me to some of the literature which might adequately express your view).

Really great!! Thanks!

27:10 “Way of life” understood as their fantasmatic reality

Related to quantum physics, Todd and Slavoj made it clear that Hegel minded the gap.

Very good debate. Can anyone say where exactly the Alenka Zupancic quote, referred to at 36:38, can be found?

Slavoj is a Big Rammstein fan a? :)

Todd i would love to hear your thoughts on Mao's 'on contradiction' in light of your work on Hegelian contradiction.

17:51 - Hegelian Power (18:31 IMP)

There aren’t subtitules availables.

What's the intro music?

What? I've never seen that Columbo episode

Hegel anticipated everything, after all he was Hegel.

Hegel as the guy to organize the mass immoralities, Marx as the state poster boy... well I can certainly see the latter and I'll admit the former does not give me much confidence in being able to stomach Hegel's political philosophy (and by virtue of the nature of philosophy, the rest of Hegelian thought). Also, not too sure what to make of the fact that Zizek can say such a thing, and still advocate Hegel with a straight face.

does anyone now good german books getting into Hegel? Im having a hard time with less than nothing.

Marx had exaggerated in a critique of Hegel, that he did not see the concrete man. On the contrary, Hegel it goodly see. The man, as the man, not as the citizen. "Consciousness - Self Consciousness - History - World". What Slavoj owes to M. Kangrga? How did he it know. (Or remember, not must to speak)

42?? years ago?? 1989??

Cool

That quantuum section in Hegel's Logic has way too many equations, someday someone will have to explain it XD

why don't you talk about kamala harris?

😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍

So everything can be seen as anything else, what a blessing to humanity Hegel was, absolutely genius. But reality doesn't exist on it's own, there are no shapes or meanning, not even now and here, it's all illusion our biological body create. Those biological limitations are solid foundations for imagination, give us something we can build and expand upon. Or let me put it in another words, i understand my perception of the universe is fake, but prefer this illusion over endless oblivion of real universe.

Kelsen is Austrian, comrade

44:37

Love zizek but how anyone gets to grappling any Hegel trying to get some without having first taken care of Kant is a bit of a puzzle -maybe it all Marx’s fault? Anywho “the transcendental approach of we cannot step outside of the symbolic order and so on ‘ -no outside buddy, forget about it. There none except in imagination and illusion. So forget even all thoughts thereof. But that’s not even Kants transcendental rather more like the same ol idealism of Berkeley, things are ideas, to be is to be perceived and so on. Transcendental means we do have some knowledge of things which is absolute.

Yes stupidity goes in hand with totalitariam fascism... BUT stupidity can be faked. We havent seen yet what someone really smart and ill intended could do using those tactics

I prefer Macintyre's Hegelian solution to Sartre's conundrum - Zizek's solution to everything is hide and think

MOISHE POSTONE!!! He "rehegelizes" marx

Godamn it Zizek, let Todd talk

Ha

Hegel is so good because he uses the imagination. Maybe hegel today would sound something like korzybski, only cooler.

Ive never gotten zizek take against the taoist way of life. He wants to carry his cross, carry his chip on his shoulder like if its something to be proud of.

Boorish con man and spergic louse

Listening to these two can teach us how the essence of contemporary hegelianism can be expressed in two words: "toxic masculinity"

The Left is the new Right, and the Right is the new Left.