Slavoj Žižek & Ash Sarkar - In conversation 

"I noticed with my Jewish friends, none of them believe in God, but God still gave them the land of Israel." - Slavoj Zizek. Long live Diogenes. Thank you Slavoj. You have made my life richer.

Around the 19 minute mark it reminded me of this footnote that appears in a physics text book: "It could be avoided if equations could be written in three-dimensional arrays, but unfortunately publishers are as yet unable to provide such a service. A novelist, or the writer of any work for that matter, will have encountered a similar problem many times. Ideas are linked to one another in complicated patterns but in expressing them one is forced to string them out in a line, sentence by sentence." - Bryce DeWitt

The interviewer was so good to push back just enough against what Zizek said to keep the interview flowing and make it interesting but don't steal the spotlight. I loved it so much! 👍

This is the best discussion/debate with Zizek that I've seen so far. I've never seen someone get him off his talking points like this. Ms. Sarkar knows the anecdotes he's about to tell (because we've all heard them anyway), and has probing follow-up questions to all of them. Usually when you have a high-profile "debate" with another public intellectual, rather than analyze and disagree with his individual points, they just use him as a launching point into one of their own prepared essays, and so it goes back and forth. This is the first time I've really seen him challenged on-stage by an intelligent person.

I was happy to see Ash challenge him on some of his ideas. More to learn in their disagreements with each other rather than other interviewers who have no idea what he’s talking about and just nod along.

Happy Birthday Zizek!!! Thanks for everything! :))

I have the biggest smile when I see for the last 15 years Zizek books on their place, in the library, laying there calmly. It will be sad to see a complete, final set... Let us hope that Zizek will also have his torrent with 99GB of videos with him just like the Hitch has. Old school civility and enlightened vulgarity of his would be a thing that I will long for the most in modern times :(

Shout out to crowd for giving up their Q&A. This was wonderful & enjoyable.

Incredible interviewing Ash! Hands down best discussion I’ve seen with Zizek

Happy birthday Zizek! You mean a lot to us

Excellent talk. I will remember the name Ash Sarkar.

Very interesting, she was a good host and interlocutor. Wish we had longer.

Wow ash is stunningly effective. Best interview of Slavoj I have ever heard. Great job!

“I think you do a really good job of saying the opposite thing to what you mean by yourself, and you don't need my help.” - Ash Sarkar to Slavoj Žižek

Nice to see zizek challenged like that, a good talk.

he's looking well for 75!

How can you hate this man! Happy birthday Slavoj 🌹

Profesor Zizek is always interesting. One of the greatest intellectual of our time.❤❤

total legend, and so on and so on...

When Zizek talks about his friends, I’m never sure whether he is talking about personal conversations or things he has read.

75 years old and doesn't miss a beat!

This needed to be longer. I feel like they only really got into it around the 43-minute mark.

Happy birthday our Slavoj Zizek ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

We may have only a few years left with this man. May God bless him (in the atheist sense, or whatever, blah blah).

Long live Žižek! Happy birthday! ✊❤

I was there and it was grande…

He is in top Form! Happy birthday from your Munich friends

Congratulations! I know we have had many fierce battles, but you know that I still regard you as one of the world's leading intellectuals today.

OMG I would DIE to see his interpretation of Percival

Great bloke !

He came into the room, basically called everyone an idiot and left. Love it 😂

I like Ash but she flies close to saying that no one prominent can criticise cancel culture because it's always an example of a privileged victim complex. It means no one prominent can criticise it. It also forgets that it's the people who are not prominent who really suffer.

Happy Birthday Zizek

to me this was one of the most beautiful interviews with Slavoj ever...

Happy birthday Zizek!

This is a real meeting of the mind.

I seem to remember Slavoj saying he used this tactic with his therapist.

Slavoj is so cute in an innocent kind of way!!!😊❤️❤️

Third! Also, happy birthday, Professor!

Thanks!

thank you Slavoj and all of you for giving him some love!

The chemistry between these two is perfect

Živo..thank you my friend and hope to meet you one day

Love deprh of Zizek's morality ! Yes when we are deeply connected we laugh together at jokes about each other...this would be impossible when any deep harbour of prejudice is held.

Dragi gospod Žižek.Zelo rada vas poslušam.Hvala za vaše intervencije.Bravo. Tole pa kot izziv.Mislim, da se motite, ko pravite, da človek naj ne išče po sebi, ker bo (šele?) takrat butnil v grdoto.Ravno nasprotno, ko se grdega v sebi najmanj zavedamo, je le to najbolj aktivno in destruktivno, menim. Zato je treba biti aktiven tako navznoter (ko res pogledamo grdemu v faco, je tu končno priložnost, da z njim tudi opravimo, prej je ni) IN navzven, v slednjem se strinjava.Če bi vsak sebe moralno malo bolj izzval, bi bil tudi ta svet boljši. Še enkrat hvala!

Happy Birthday wishes, Zee! May the Universe "Phil" the day with Y0R heart's highest desire! 🍎 Apple for the teacher! 🍎

2024: Žižek speaking about the Grail

I love you my Slavoj Zizek ❤

Slavoj looking great

Why are these things always so short?

Pretty decent talk, not many new thoughts from Zizek that aren't already mentioned in much greater detail in his latest book (Freedom: A Disease Without Cure) or in prior conversations. Ash had a bit of an itchy trigger finger though, but testing Zizek on grounds of possibly being a self-victimizing 'cancel culture' whiner was at least a productive trial with an ultimately exonerating outcome. For a journalist dedicated to truth, it appears she did not find the truth she may have expected. He handled the pressure well; even the last gesture of humiliation with the cake and birthday music was overridden with Zizek's interminable talking.

That sexy beast was looking amazing! And the interviewer was nice too!

Ash Sarkaris sooo impressive. So hard to handle Zizek interrupting every fucking time.

Best Q&A ever 🎉

Happy Birthday. I LOVE u

zizek rizzing on ash sarkar was not on my 2024 card

Well done, Ash Sarkar. Vse najboljše, Slavoj!! It's all in a name.

Happy birthday Legend ♥️🐬

big slav playing all the hits

Assumed he was about 20 years younger.

Zizek looking at his two candles should be a meme format.

He is really great!

"Atheism in Christianity" is actually a book from the famous Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch, published in 1968. Just wonder if there are any links there. The subtitle was "The Religion of the Exodus and the Kingdom" which meant the possibility of socialist 'coming' on earth.

I love this guy.

Happy Bday Slavoj!

That ending with the cake was so awkward xD I love it.

It was not a scientist who questioned the Bohr horse shoe but a young journalist.

Two modern day intellectual archetypes. This conversation is the tipping point

from actuarial tables, at 75 one's life expectancy is still about 10 years or so. That's enough to write an opera or two. His brain certainly seems in good condition still and I hope he still has many years left.

Ash Sarkar is the best interviewer or Slavoj I’ve seen. Her humor and whit works great with him.

Perfect chemistry between Ash and Zizek. Zizek is always awesome, but Ash being a younger communist is the perfect person to balance out and challenge him. Came for Zizek and stayed for Ash.’

The man is unique 😅

good job ash!

This was the best birthday present for Zizek: to be called a liberal, an elite and a fake victim.

Happy birthday ! *sniff

What a duo!

Love how Ash knows how to pronounce consonants (judging from her education) but has made a calculated decision to not bother

Ash is my hero 🙌

I really like Zizek a lot, but he doesn't half repeat himself. 😅 His anecdotes, I mean. I think I heard basically all of them before from other lectures.

What a bastard! He very much resembles my (rather intelligent) father who just passed away last Christmas, who was also very much a marxist. I guess he would have enjoyed a life of/in philosophy. Rather than his government job in VAT regulations for the Netherlands and EU (in the midst of all the Dutch liberal socialists). I like mister Žižek's sense/amount of humour. Just as cynical as my father's.

zizek watching the candles and wondering what to do is something else 😂

The god of high theory.

Žižek kralj!

75 A.Ž

She definitely kinda got him when he described how he's being cancelled and later pulled back and said he didn't want to portray himself as a victim.

As a right wing free market capitalist, Zizek is my favorite filthy commie. I can't believe he is 75! I never would have guessed he was that old.

Happy birthday comrade! ❤️✊

Slavoj… you’re my boy. But it’s time to shut it down.

Greatest philosopher of all time is Zizek

I don't know if it's just me, but there's something off with Zizek. Maybe it's just old age.

In the west when we see outside countries exploiting fault lines of bigotry and prejudice, we cannot afford to blame the outsider and ignore the fault line. Similarly, when looking at African countries we can see minority groups from the USA exploiting fault lines of bigotry and prejudice, and again we shouldn't allow ourselves to blame the outsider and ignore the fault line. This, I think, is Zizek's point of Hegelian universalism, where we don't put ourselves in the position of the "lords" of Africa.

Yep, time to think about graveyard real estate prices😂

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58:23 it's not a Paradox! It's a dialectic!

ab7:10!!! für Dr.: Geld ist nicht ein einfaches Ding, sondern ist das Resultat von unserem Verhalten bzw. IST unser Verhalten, das strukturiert ist durch Fetischismen, Begehren, soziale Strukturen, (Aber-)Glaube etc...

14:31 Well, what did you expect when you agreed to speak with Žižek? You can't interview him like you would a politician, expecting direct answers to your questions.

If you go to a Žižek event and they say there’ll be a Q&A, you should expect there not to be one 😅😂

As alway, Zizek remains a great intellectual and an exciting theorist without viable solutions to any current problems.

I do belice in bees, humming birds,river,ocean...,but omnipotente & $$$...In Gold we Trust,shit isn't It! Happy new free Palestine. Free Julian Assange. Better future Slavov...

"you are really dipping yourself a feelthy leeeberal". Hahahaha. An insult much to be feared.