Documentary filmmaker and Writer Sydney Lima meets 'The Elvis Of Cultural Theory', philosopher Slavoj Žižek at London's MOTH Club. A Rich Parents Production #slavojzizek #themonthlydigestif #sydneylima
Guys, this was clearly not intended as a serious debate or lecture, it's a pop culture show happy to remain at the surface. And that's fine. If you're looking for serious Zizek, read the Sublime Object of Ideology.
Well said. I'd add that this is true of most Zizek videos. I remember the first time I saw him give a serious lecture on Hegel. It became very clear that he's taking his pop philosophy far less seriously, and such is the virtue of his public commentary.
You've got to be kidding. With all my respect to Chomsky, he is not even close to Zizek. The latter is a true madman who has published close to a hundred books on everything you can imagine. His knowledge of German Idealism alone already makes him more interesting than Chomsky could ever hope to be. Slavoj is a MADMAN. Believe me. I've been studying him since 2012. Most of Chomsky's books are quite boring (mostly about politics and linguistics). He's not even remotely close. I'd exchange Chomsky's entire oeuvre for Zizek's Less Than Nothing alone (or maybe even his Absolute Recoil). And I'm not even kidding. Literally. I still respect Chomsky though (it's just that Zizek is a lot more interesting as an intellectual). Even his personality is much more amusing than Chomsky's.
@@jodawgsup By reading his books. Zizek is a very complicated guy. Any authentic dialectician is like that. He uses Lacan to read German Idealism. But not simply Lacan "the way he was", but a version of him that would be strange to Lacan himself (whereas Lacan was increasingly anti-hegelian, Zizek reads him as a hegelian par excellence). Not to mention Zizek's materialist reversal of Hegel (yes, for him, Hegel was more materialist than Marx himself). And I agree. Whenever I read Hegel's Logic, all I can think of is how insanely materialistic his thought looks. But, back to Zizek, the only person I know of to have successfully articulated his ontology is Adrian Johnston.
If Jesus became an atheist, then he would not have cried out to Father for he would not have believed in him. As we see that he offers his spirit directly after. In that moment, Jesus is showing a human the travails of humanness as an act of compassion. That although we may question God in our suffering, our soul is redeemed through the trials we face.
But know that the tactic changed, yet I withhold my rights to power (only if extremely necessary) which means very rarely. I'd influence others, and everyone has a right to a cause
@@mcosu1 what logic? I didn’t say Zizek has no business reiterating the same ideas over and over again. He’s free to write whatever he wants, and you’re free to consume it or not. And he would be the first to tell you that he has been saying the same thing in every book since _The Sublime Object of Ideology._
@CrazyLinguiniLegs I really like Zizeks work on Christianity and I was hoping he would put some new ideas out with this book. From the interview, it sounds like more of the same.
@@mcosu1 yeah, I can sympathize with that. Even if he doesn’t bring any new ideas about it, it’d be interesting to hear him develop the old ones more in depth rather than repeating the same hot takes over and over.
@@ElectricityTasterLOL. "But seriously", the truth of satanism is not that it's too radical, but that it's not radical enough. Yeah, Zizek's clichés are never too much. Lol. What I like about satanism is that what it fights against is already in the very core of Christianity. Take Black Metal, for instance. The problem is not Christ per se, but the fake institutional mistification of his scandalous core. Nietzsche was right: there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross. Christ still remains too traumatic a figure for Christians themselves.
And her twin sister sitting in the first row...? Yess, one can easily feel resurrected again throwing brilliant ideas to the audience with ease and pleasure!
I'm not a big fan of this us vs them left Vs right that he is playing in his last couple of interviews . Peterson is also doing it more and more as well but ofc he is right wing and Zizek is left wing. I liked it more when both of them were critical of all political ideology
Poor Christians, 17,000 years of misinterpreting the original message. Many interesting words. Fascinating self-dialogue. Not sure what’s been said. But it was all in good fun.
@@bensonchannel8676 what if the message is nothing deeper than whatever sources were available to educated 1st century Jews-mostly Paul and the writers of the gospels-plus the rest of the traditions that developed over the next three centuries and then the next 17? What if the “original” message is Neoplatonism plus Judaism + give or take a few more influences (Stocicism, for instance, and a reaction against atheistic Epicureanism?) What I find funny - honestly - is the need of intellectuals to keep rescuing Christianity as if it was special beyond its impressive capacity to keep the European world institutionally controlled for 17 centuries. As if they knew no history prior to Christianity. Honestly, why, in your opinion is Christianity so alluring that some want it even without its presumed central advantage: a god who assures it’ll all be good in the end? Why keep Christianity if it can’t even offer that? Why not just be committed humanistic naturalists without materialism-reductionism? We’ve got plenty of historical sources - including Christianity - and science. Why keep beating a historically dead horse?
Man lives always "dangerous and strange times", there´s nothing new in this sense. Secondly , every "thinker" is too "bourgeous" these days, drinking coca -cola at the same time when trying to be "wise" man, come on! I´m not buying this. At least Zizek is better than JP , but that is not much.
When he gives talks it's always with all these detours which can make it had to follow. He never seems to "get to the point" of what he wanted to say. His written work also has a lot of different ideas, but it's a lot more "scrutable".
@@Jomchen if you’re a Christian, you’ll know the things that he says are false. If you’re not a Christian, just do some googling about the doctrine of Christ’s second coming and what the Gospel is about. It’s not what Zizek is describing.
Republicans are not in any shape or form a majority in US. They are still in power thanks to gerrymandering, Indirect elections of president and unequal power of voters (every state have 2 senators, no matter how many people live there.
Sorry, but Slavoj is only a few points ahead of Jordan Peterson these days .. oh how the mighty have fallen... I think he should start working on his quantum physics book because i heard all his current talking points almost a decade ago
A few points ahead of Peterson? Maybe if you're talking about ability to entertain an audience, but in terms of philosophy and an understanding of religion Peterson doesn't even come close. Peterson's rambling about the "biblical corpus" is a shallow attempt to branch out to and use religion to justify conservative dogma. There is no comparison.
Yeah, it sucks that Zizek hasn't seem to grow much. Since he loves film, I would compare him to Tarantino. I still love their work, but also understand that there is a certain limitation to what they do.
This has just become a carnival barker act where a bunch of zoomers get high and say "let's see what the crazy old guy with the funny accent (in a lunatic asylum in a healthy society) pulls out of his face"
Zizek quite has something to say to which I can fully agree. However Don't buy his moralistic pseudo universalism when it comes to Germany. Not even radically pro Palestinian protesting students get an exmatriculation for their more than disturbing protest and antisemitic acts inside universities ! Who then wants to believe, that jews losing their jobs in germany due to a too Palestinian friendly attitude. Sometimes even Zizek isn't Zizekian enough.
It's just a stupid kind of inside joke. There is no way coca cola thinks Zizek is a great way to move product. He's famous for a philosopher but only for a philosopher.
