I think this gentleman was one of the best interviewers/moderators I've seen with Žižek. His demeanor was calm, he didn't frantically or aggressively try to reign Slavoj in, but also kept the tempo moving along when necessary with short, precise prompting and subject changes. Very nice work. Thank you for this.
I just love 7:55 "You were called the most dangerous philosopher in the West" "Which was meant as an insult" Slavoj says it like: They were trying to be mean, but I liked that title.
@Gumbo Clay *"because the working class are mostly white males"* I hope you're just speaking on a national scale. Even then, that assertion is still inaccurate since the gender divide of the working class is nearly 50/50 (at least here in the U.S.). I agree though that the modern left focuses too much on identity rather than class.
Gumbo Clay The entire reason that the Marxists switched to Cultural Marxism was because the Western working class rejected Marxism and was clearly never going to accept it as it was. Marxism was always funded by Wall St. Chosenites anyway, because it is a weapon of racial supremacy and maximizing global usury. Cultural Marxism is why the world has $200 trillion in debt. It’s a banker profiteering racket.
@@johnantony797Probably because it vilifies nuclear energy and maybe oversimplifies and villianizes the Soviet Union too much. But I can’t make a secure guess since I didn’t watch it.
His simplistic take on reality aligns with hers. That's why he likes her. "Science says this, so we should do something". It's fucking moronic. Unless you have real engineering solutions that actually work, no one needs another moron expousing "violent hatred"; which just deflects responsibility to others. "The capitalists" in this case. He is just a pathetic commie that pushes the hard questions and solutions on someone else. All he has in his repertoire is "you should do something to make my life better". What a pathetic slob.
JMAC LIVES So because we don't currently have a solid solution, we shouldn't try to bring attention to something that important? Climate change activism isn't "you stupid fucking capitalists should make MY life better, immediately!" It's about identifying what's actually fucking going on and holding the ones responsible for it, responsible. It's not "capitalists should give me a free fucking ipad immediately", it's more like "I'm kind of terrified about the world my grand children will inherit, and we should do something". We can't be angry at gross negligence for profit, because we don't have an immediate solution? I don't understand that at all, we're likely to never get a solution unless we demand it, and that might not be enough. Can you maybe elaborate? Because it seems like you have a simplistic take on reality right now
@TheSingularity Why not? Is it impossible for "leftists" to defend their borders? No, in fact that's been going for quite some time. And same with family. A majority of leftists do not favor literally open borders, if that's what your referring to. But I don't know why I bothered to respond to this, it just seemed exceptionally stupid.
@TheSingularity We don't despise the concept of family. I happen to think the nuclear family is the ideal form of family organization, I just don't throw a tantrum when somebody dares to step outside that ideal, as the right do.
Comment section gives a good idea about the state of the world right now. No debates about what he’s saying just reams of comments about his ticks, often misunderstood for a runny nose. Philosophy is wasted on people who hate to think.
This channel has quite an eclectic mix of subjects. Mainly sport but then they throw in an interview with Slavoj Zizek. Always nice to have something else to talk about like language and reality at half time. Subscribed.
Wait a minute... Thank you to the interviewer (for once.) He didn't make the interview about himself; he didn't interrupt to prove how smart he is; he just gently steered the conversation, (Slavoj needs this lol) and shut up respectfully.
Even without the ticks, broken English, speech impediments... he's just rambling on about inconsequential nonsense, one minute its a Hugh Grant movie, next a Polish war analogy then Boris and Freudian name slips. Its like a live action William Burroughs cut-up.
It must be so hard being so intelligent and trapped in your intellectual apartheid in the sense that you see the world so differently that the average person is segregated from you.
I like his take on Greta Thunberg. Whatever one's opinion on the surface matter, her delivery of a stern indictment over national dithering on climate change was very affecting. "How dare you!" hasn't been deployed so earnestly in recent memory.
Ths is like an acid trip, condensed down into an hour. Starts out frantic, tangential and chaotic, then it slows down a bit and reality starts to re-solidify! I love Zizek I'm pretty sure youtube invented the ability to watch things at half speed for talks like this!
@@olidugmore8601 It's fine, Zizek has a tendency to ramble on, you did cut him short at an interesting point but I understand that as an interviewer, you had other point you wanted to cover in the limited time you had. It's an exceptionally good interview, by the way. You covered many fresh topics. Good job!
“That was another thing, many leftists say why did you not cut his balls… I wanted to show no, I can be nice, get the point through…” Revolutionary, especially given how this approach has been crushed to bits in debates and elections recently. The effort to remain objective in truth and serious about the issue is not being done correctly on a grand scale, against fashionable combativeness.
What he's saying about how the western world views catastrophes at 33:00 is kind of brilliant , it explains why we seem to be unable to act on the climate crisis subject
At about the 17:00 minute, Zizek makes a prophetic observation about Corbyn and the Labour party's catastrophic failure to take a firm position on Brexit - the thing that ultimately led to this disaster December 12th election result.
I'm a Polish native speaker. 11:54 Prof. Zizek quoting Polish conservative politician completely changes what he really said. The politician didn't say "Now it's our turn to fuck the whore" . He said "Now us" or "Now it's us". It has nothing to do with fucking whores even though he used the word "kurwa" which means whore in Polish. It's the same situation as with word "motherfucker" in English. It's often used only as a comma in many situations. I wonder who those Zizek's Polish friends were :) Was he misinformed or he misinforms? I think it's unlikely he just got confused trying to illustrate his point.
Nah, motherfucker would not be used as a comma in the situation he described. It would be obscene and the literal meaning is definitely hovering close by.
@@Gnampf3000 At this precise moment it is uniquely incommunicable. I can't hear what he is saying and he should have been given a tissue instead of observing him mopping up snot with his hand, and subtitles.
@@Gnampf3000 Ok I haven't watched him so I didn't know that but I'm miffed because I can't pick up what he's saying and everyone else seems to be doing so, or are they filling in the gaps with assumptions?
I don’t think the interviewer understood anything said after Chernobyl. He couldn’t engage Zizek in dialogue, Zizek starts his trademark monologue and pedagogy and the dude finally snaps awake to say something, ‘hey what did you like about the popular show you said you hated?’
this guy is a monster in the interviews. he can talk and talk without get to the point. i really love it
5 лет назад+14
I agree with Slavoj's critique of toxic masculinity! We on the left should embrace this concept, and reject the medicalisation of the concept of strong masculinity. Its really about taking a position and holding fast to it. Great conceptual work here! Well done Slavoj.
I think we should differentiate masculinity. Because masculinity is bred from the aspect of confidence, and the lack of it. The dangerous one being those who over exaggerate their masculinity. While aspect of honor, hardwork, and need for strength should be praised. The aspect of masculinity based on cruelty to inflate one ego should be chastised as cowardice.
You know what I really think has been the contemporary value of Zizek? It's not so much his ideas. Most people would struggle to express what he proposes or 'believes' in any particular area, although often they find themselves thinking, "that is such an ingenious insight!" It's the amount you have to stretch your mind to follow what he's saying. He forces you to think hard. Not only does he go all over the place when it comes to philosophical terminologies and modes of thinking, but you have his deep lisping accent and ticks to contend with (absolutely no disrespect). Maybe his ultimate epitaph will not be as a 'philosopher', but as a 'revolutionary performance artist'. The man commands your attention and exercises your intellect... And so on.
And when it comes to ideas, the proposal that Reagonomics was more destructive to family values than all the left-wing identity empowerment movements is a great way of expressing what I feel very many people are slowly starting to realise. The right have some honestly noble values (i.e. people need a family), which the left should not be reactionary against, but the politicians posing as representatives of people who identify as right wing are much more often than not just shills for capital over everything. Monetary Wealth as the only paradigm of value.
Zizek is a genious and his constractive analysis of society grasps all the problems we face in our manipulative world.. He reveals in what mess we are thrown in. Well done .
Sometimes it's difficult to not interpret Zizek's philosophical ideas in an idealist manner. You have to wait for the examples and make something from them.
zizek's nervous ticks seem a symptom of anxiety. which is expected when you know too much but eventually incapable of fixing the wrongs despite incessant efforts
Gl0balist promoted bread tube has beenan intellectual joke, completely unable to intellectually engage honestly with the ideas of the right while only parroting globalist racial Marxism taking points to represent their world view
@@Neuroticmancer a racialist world view that takes the classical false dichotomy between the proletariat and bourgeoisie and applies to a series of false dyads from White vs "PoC" to Western culture vs non-Western. Racial and cultural marxism are but a few of the larger branches on intersectional racism and marxism. There is also gender and classical material dichotomies but racial marxism is the most toxic root driving the globalist left today.
We need more autistic women!🥳 (I am autistic myself, and it is a prevalent notion that autistic women have "male" brains. We're just logical and don't put up with niceness. Many men are not as rational🤷♀️
37:10 -- You don't hear about the Ozone Hole any more, because, it's been healing. The various countries got together, worked out top-down protocols for solving the problem of ozone-depleting substances, and then... ...that worked! So the Ozone Hole was definitely solved by responsiveness to scientific perception, and social action in response.
i'm polish and he's wrong about Kaczynski, he used that word in 97 newspaper interview and completely in different sense. Zizek has to look for new polish friends :) i volunteer.
Finanziell Unabhängig Finanziell Not really. I think you can still differentiate liberals from leftists. Leftists are much more radically in the way they see problems (like Zizek) liberals like to talk about marginal things (identity politics and so). Zizek really makes it clear in this video that ”liberals are not true leftists.”
where he wipes his nose then his eye with the same hand....combining his tics to create new every more unhealthy ones...are we sure he isn't just the mad guy at the pub?
greta, slavoj, bernie , tulsi, varoufakis .... no bullshit people - my idols... you can't disrupt this huge hypocrite white college educated liberal conservative machine wearing gloves - punch them hard between the eyes on live tv, that's how you do it
I think thats one of zizeks major contributions to free thinking. While newer leftists either refer later critical theory (demirovic, habermas, even a guy like richard david precht etc) or to post structuralism (buttler, foucault, derrida and all the french douchenozzles) zizek goes a step back refering to hegel and does a synthesis of hegel dialectic as the thesis and marx materialism as the anthithesis. With this 'fusion' of thinking he becomes much harder to understand at first grasp, because like i said most leftists believe mostly in the one or the other ideology and he uses both. But he then creates a pattern of thinking/ perspective which is completely new therefore very refreshing while not less true. A good example of this, for me was when he criticised 'dialectics of enlightment' (adorno and horkheimers major work as an explanaition on how nazism could become a thing as a logic following of the historic of reason itself). He didnt criticise it as being non valid or retarded/ untrue etc and therefore denying historical materialism. He just added that tje frankfurter school failed to explain the suffering in gulags and the raise of stalin with this logic. While stalinism for zizek was even a better example of the 'negative somehow pervertisation of enlightment'. He then gives examples of this thesis to ground it. Like the gulag members once a year had to group up and sign a birthday card for stalin. This shows the pervertion. On this level in stalinsim all people were treated the same and even prisoniers had 'the right to sign a card' or their signatures was seen as somehow worry enough to fo the effort of gathering them (what would be totally unimaginable with jews in auschwitz since they had no inner worth for the nazis). On the other hand they were judt burgeoise scum and had to work until they die...
Where are all those new trees Zizek is talking about? Forest definitely didn't regrow where modern cities, roads and industries are build. In mater of fact, forest was cut down for construction materials, necessary for urban expansion. Trees can never climb back to hill tops, where erosion washed fertile soil to the bare rocks. Amazon forest is now palm oil and industrial plants farm. 15 billion trees are cut down each year. Single tree grow about 20+ years. So where is all this new forest he was talking about?
The correct translation of what was said in Polish is in fact "now it's our f-ing turn", I think he misinterpreted it a bit. The well-known Polish expletive comes from the concept of a loose woman, but can mean many different things or serve to simply emphasize the point - like it does in this case
Actually, what Kaczynski meant wasn't a military quote, the word "kurwa", which literally means 'a prostitute / whore', can be also used to emphasize emotions, so what he meant would be more like: 'Now it's our fucking turn [to run the country]'.
With all respect for my compatriot, given that we were both born in that country that is no more, his interpretation of the disintegration of Yugoslavia sadly fits into the mainstream narrative of oversimplifies good guys vs bad guys. Nationalism was on the rise in all ex-Yu republics in the '80s, but Milosevic came to power late that decade (not in early 80 as Zizek said), whereas Slovenian, Croat and Albanian nationalism has been brewing since the end of WWII. Serbian national identity was last to pick up, as Serbs, with Montenegrins, ware last to leave the boat, not first. Chomsky explained that very well. Anyone interested in the background and context of what Zizek left out can be seen in - Yugoslavia The Avoidable War documentary series.
*sniff* this is very ironic you mentioned it. In the past the act of showing your right hand was to *sniff* ensure the other person that you don't hold any weapons but as for opposite the left hand is deemed to bare all the filth that one had and so on... So as I see your question is whether we * sniff* the ones who observe Zizek comply with the ideolgies provided -which is of course ( sorry for brutality ) utter bullsh*t or we are ought to convey *sniff* the basic premises of the philosophy and dialectics and so on, to maintain the geist .... As it is for the *sniff* *wipes nose finally* all humans to frantically save themselves from *sniff* entropy an so on and so on...
He is my favourite; no matter what the hack he is doing with his nose. I’m afraid 😟 , compared with those old days, the edge of his nose getting more red than earlier. ( what will happen Dr Zizek’s hands tie to the chair and ask him to talk) Wonderful interview, though!
4:34 Samuel Beckett wasn't a psychologist and never worked as a counsellor, therapist or whatsoever. Slavoj Zizek is undoubtedly a brilliant mind and has a lot interesting things to say but here and then in order to prove his point he uses some anecdotal paraboles that are so much made up...
Employer: "how are you today?"
Me: "you know, Thats the irony of it....."
Probably concise for a lacanian cultural theorist
... and so on and so on 😊
+++++SNIFF+++++
@@KhorneBred Too much coke
The wages of sagacity is loquaciousness... :-)
i feel like Zizek has so much to say that he forgets where he is and just says all of it
Relatable. I excessively type in paragraphs.
@@specialknees6798 Same here😂😂😂😂.
@@specialknees6798 yes
Yes.
Interviewer: Hello
Zizek: **Full on Zizek mode**
😂😂😂
Ha ha ha ha
Hahahahaha you made me laugh out loud. Thank you.
Yup thats what I thought
Thats what we want to hear right? Some interview kinda annoying because too much interruption
I like the part of the interview where he went off on a weird tangent
Brad Parker 🤣😂. Nailed it.
He starts on a tangent
he does and is a master of weird tangent
"The book doesnt have any topics" i love this insane man
You mean the whole interview?
I think this gentleman was one of the best interviewers/moderators I've seen with Žižek. His demeanor was calm, he didn't frantically or aggressively try to reign Slavoj in, but also kept the tempo moving along when necessary with short, precise prompting and subject changes. Very nice work. Thank you for this.
Completely agreed. No point fighting against the tide
@faultroy You alright mate?
@faultroy Lmao, what
@@Soleilune1995 he didn't have a conversation with zizek, he said one or two things
@faultroy seek help
I just love 7:55
"You were called the most dangerous philosopher in the West"
"Which was meant as an insult"
Slavoj says it like: They were trying to be mean, but I liked that title.
This man deserves a medal, hes been fighting the real cold war for years!
We need more marxist professors on universities to make the cold war great again.
@Gumbo Clay Working people voted Trump.
Working people dont need apparatsjiks leeching on them.
@Gumbo Clay *"because the working class are mostly white males"*
I hope you're just speaking on a national scale. Even then, that assertion is still inaccurate since the gender divide of the working class is nearly 50/50 (at least here in the U.S.). I agree though that the modern left focuses too much on identity rather than class.
Gumbo Clay
The entire reason that the Marxists switched to Cultural Marxism was because the Western working class rejected Marxism and was clearly never going to accept it as it was.
Marxism was always funded by Wall St. Chosenites anyway, because it is a weapon of racial supremacy and maximizing global usury.
Cultural Marxism is why the world has $200 trillion in debt. It’s a banker profiteering racket.
you mean the cold war in his body giving him sniffles?
"Sexuality is about how to best organize your failure"
well that gives me new hope.
Sexuality is about how you BEAST ORGANISE your failure.
Know what’s the original source of this quote?
*Every time I watch Slavoj, I start touching my nose.*
@@unlimitedworld8691 i drool
my nose starts itching but I resist, heroically
Zizek's been good lately. He almost stays on point most of the time.
Dank you berry much for upload, whatever, blah blah, andsoonandsoforth
Or maybe you're getting better at understanding the clear logic that underlies his supposed digressionary speech.
@@wj2429 Nah. I've been doing Zizek longer than many have been alive.
Edit:andsoonandsoon
@@wj2429 what are you talking about?
All of his shitty ideas have been implemented and executed into their inevitable failure many times in the past.
Dad: "Why do you got drunk in rehab?"
Me: "You know, thats the irony of it..."
Zizek: ‘Are You Aware?’
The Greatest Hits
The greatest hits and so on
4:27 *do you know*
"Can you even imagine?"
"I am even tempted to say..."
@@trapanatans "And so on and so on"
One hour of fresh zizek, dankitty dankitty dank
Dank you berry much
He purposefully cut it off at one hour didn't he? Who's the mad men now?
and so on
Zizek gives me life 💜
9 hours of the dankest Zizek:
ruclips.net/video/2rzMkvf1Ess/видео.html
35:00 " I didn't like the series, it's too ideological." God I love zizek
@@johnantony797 Zizek said this
@@johnantony797Probably because it vilifies nuclear energy and maybe oversimplifies and villianizes the Soviet Union too much. But I can’t make a secure guess since I didn’t watch it.
26:30 on Greta Thunberg
His simplistic take on reality aligns with hers. That's why he likes her.
"Science says this, so we should do something". It's fucking moronic. Unless you have real engineering solutions that actually work, no one needs another moron expousing "violent hatred"; which just deflects responsibility to others. "The capitalists" in this case.
He is just a pathetic commie that pushes the hard questions and solutions on someone else. All he has in his repertoire is "you should do something to make my life better". What a pathetic slob.
@@RealityGutPunch the science not only identified the culprits but also designed solutions, you fucking idiot!
JMAC LIVES So because we don't currently
have a solid solution, we shouldn't try to bring attention to something that important? Climate change activism isn't "you stupid fucking capitalists should make MY life better, immediately!" It's about identifying what's actually fucking going on and holding the ones responsible for it, responsible. It's not "capitalists should give me a free fucking ipad immediately", it's more like "I'm kind of terrified about the world my grand children will inherit, and we should do something".
We can't be angry at gross negligence for profit, because we don't have an immediate solution? I don't understand that at all, we're likely to never get a solution unless we demand it, and that might not be enough.
Can you maybe elaborate? Because it seems like you have a simplistic take on reality right now
I salute you editor. This has saved me an hour tonight. He's still talking cobblers but at least now I know!
@@RealityGutPunch OK dude, uh what ever you say but at the end of the day we gotta get our lazy asses out there and recycle a lil bit, gosh
I must admit, zizek got me out of the JBP cult with his debate with him
The message was passed
Good for you
Get him so say “ silly sweet sour sausage sauce “ then close your eyes, and feel the soft warm summer rain when it hits you’re face!
Simon FNP hahahhahaa
If he gets the coronavirus everyone in a mile radius is fucked 😂
Ben Haley u damn right Sir
You guys are sooo bad! lollllll
I would like to have a flanger-fuzz pedal named after Zizek.
Why are leftists such fans of speech impediments?
there is a mode that creates a tape echo called "and so on and so on"
Well, my zoom multi-fx makes crackly zizekian sniff noises on certain notes whenever you turn tube distortion up.
"We left-wingers can do this (being strong and standing up for yourself) better than conservatives."
Love you, Zizek.
@TheSingularity We are all family. So why do we need borders?
@TheSingularityLol I forgot I made that asinine comment. I thought I was replying to a different thread. But yeah in all honesty I'm not for OB.
@TheSingularity Why not? Is it impossible for "leftists" to defend their borders? No, in fact that's been going for quite some time. And same with family. A majority of leftists do not favor literally open borders, if that's what your referring to. But I don't know why I bothered to respond to this, it just seemed exceptionally stupid.
@@beltranjr11 Glad to see he understood and didnt feel the need to answer , great point❤
@TheSingularity We don't despise the concept of family. I happen to think the nuclear family is the ideal form of family organization, I just don't throw a tantrum when somebody dares to step outside that ideal, as the right do.
Comment section gives a good idea about the state of the world right now. No debates about what he’s saying just reams of comments about his ticks, often misunderstood for a runny nose.
Philosophy is wasted on people who hate to think.
Terrible shame as well as what he is saying about the political space, future of the left and that was very spot on.
Basically everything is immediately turned into a fucking meme
Caleb
I am fully prepared to admit that you are correct.
@@caleb3909 well thank god you're here Caleb, voice of the people and scourge of the elite.
This channel has quite an eclectic mix of subjects. Mainly sport but then they throw in an interview with Slavoj Zizek. Always nice to have something else to talk about like language and reality at half time. Subscribed.
"To avoid confusion I hate both of them" 😭😭😭❤️❤️ never change Slavoj
Wait a minute... Thank you to the interviewer (for once.) He didn't make the interview about himself; he didn't interrupt to prove how smart he is; he just gently steered the conversation, (Slavoj needs this lol) and shut up respectfully.
Please, forget his nose and listen him
He's talking gibberish
Even without the ticks, broken English, speech impediments... he's just rambling on about inconsequential nonsense, one minute its a Hugh Grant movie, next a Polish war analogy then Boris and Freudian name slips. Its like a live action William Burroughs cut-up.
@@theNomadz well, I didn't say that he is easy to linten
shniff
I kinda like the fact that he seems to not give a fuck about his constant sniffing
When the coke hits and you can’t feel your face: 0:10-1:00:00
When God experiments on humanity by making a babbling fucking cretin with nothing to say a public figure: 21 March 1949-?.
@@Loddfafnisodr thank you! jesus fcking gawd, thank you!
@@basketofdependables4244 I won't take the responsibility.
Why is this comment so underrated? 😂
@@LoddfafnisodrSlavoj Zizek: a philosopher who writes tens of books.
Some dude on RUclips: NoThInG tO sAy PuBliC FiGuRe
It must be so hard being so intelligent and trapped in your intellectual apartheid in the sense that you see the world so differently that the average person is segregated from you.
Vivimos en una s palabra
*tips fedora*
don't worry, Zizek mostly surrounds himself with people he thinks are as smart or smarter than him.
Segregated by what
Which is euphemism for seeing it correctly
Slovoj Zizek: "How should I put it?"
A rhetorical Guide
I like his take on Greta Thunberg. Whatever one's opinion on the surface matter, her delivery of a stern indictment over national dithering on climate change was very affecting. "How dare you!" hasn't been deployed so earnestly in recent memory.
Herbert Marcuse coined the term "repressive desublimation."
Richard Murphy He used that concept in one dimensional man, correct?
@@dm6801 OOooh, I know; I use the concept in an upcoming book of essays. Not enough about Marcuse's thinking.
Richard Murphy Marcuse’s essays? Or your own?
LOVE his level of discourse. He gets it. He really really gets it.
@Sam D You are a human. You are mortal.
@Sam D Doesn't mean he agreed with everything Marx said.
@@WizzKidxKOx I think logic on @Sam D will result in insult.
Ths is like an acid trip, condensed down into an hour. Starts out frantic, tangential and chaotic, then it slows down a bit and reality starts to re-solidify! I love Zizek I'm pretty sure youtube invented the ability to watch things at half speed for talks like this!
49:20
Daaamn, interrupted just when it was getting interesting, just to come back to boring question about Chernobyl.
Means he wasnt listening
That really pissed me off. Interviewer zoned out and crashed a very insightful thought train. Now I need to know WHO OR WHAT WAS ZIZEK ASHAMED OF?
He'd been speaking for 20 minutes uninterrupted and I wanted to move things onto cinema and TV. Sorry it's not to your liking.
@@olidugmore8601 It's fine, Zizek has a tendency to ramble on, you did cut him short at an interesting point but I understand that as an interviewer, you had other point you wanted to cover in the limited time you had.
It's an exceptionally good interview, by the way. You covered many fresh topics. Good job!
We need Žižek on Rogan, he makes 4 hours long podcasts, perfect format for Žižek.
35:20 "No danger in Kiev - everything cocaine"
It's Kyiv ;)
@@folexangegeheim Мне привычнее на русском.
Не обессудьте.
“That was another thing, many leftists say why did you not cut his balls… I wanted to show no, I can be nice, get the point through…”
Revolutionary, especially given how this approach has been crushed to bits in debates and elections recently. The effort to remain objective in truth and serious about the issue is not being done correctly on a grand scale, against fashionable combativeness.
Imagine needing a yes/no answer or a quick response from this guy.
What he's saying about how the western world views catastrophes at 33:00 is kind of brilliant , it explains why we seem to be unable to act on the climate crisis subject
50:34 in classic zizek fashion, he lets his phone just ring for the next thirty seconds
At about the 17:00 minute, Zizek makes a prophetic observation about Corbyn and the Labour party's catastrophic failure to take a firm position on Brexit - the thing that ultimately led to this disaster December 12th election result.
I'm a Polish native speaker. 11:54 Prof. Zizek quoting Polish conservative politician completely changes what he really said. The politician didn't say "Now it's our turn to fuck the whore" . He said "Now us" or "Now it's us". It has nothing to do with fucking whores even though he used the word "kurwa" which means whore in Polish. It's the same situation as with word "motherfucker" in English. It's often used only as a comma in many situations. I wonder who those Zizek's Polish friends were :) Was he misinformed or he misinforms? I think it's unlikely he just got confused trying to illustrate his point.
Yep, that was interesting.
Nah, motherfucker would not be used as a comma in the situation he described. It would be obscene and the literal meaning is definitely hovering close by.
*SNIFFING IDEOLOGY INTENSIFIES*
Fully Automatic Sniffing Space Communism
The ghost of Joe Cocker lives in his nose.
Obviously having a bad speaking day. Sounds like he has a cold. He writes better than he speaks.
@@kaljic1 His speaking style is absolutely unique :)
@@Gnampf3000 At this precise moment it is uniquely incommunicable. I can't hear what he is saying and he should have been given a tissue instead of observing him mopping up snot with his hand, and subtitles.
@@hansiesma16 Fair enough, but I do not know an interview of his where he does not do that
@@Gnampf3000 Ok I haven't watched him so I didn't know that but I'm miffed because I can't pick up what he's saying and everyone else seems to be doing so, or are they filling in the gaps with assumptions?
So what do you think about Greta Thunberg?
**sniffling intensifies*
He sounds like Mr Snuffleupagus.
do u have the timestamp when they talk about greta?
Everyone in this comment section are my kind of people.
26:30
This guy talking must appear on a final exam for English real time translator license.
Because of the high-level lexicon he manages?
@@lifeisclimbing no.
I don’t think the interviewer understood anything said after Chernobyl. He couldn’t engage Zizek in dialogue, Zizek starts his trademark monologue and pedagogy and the dude finally snaps awake to say something, ‘hey what did you like about the popular show you said you hated?’
lollllllllllllllLLLLLLLLL
ha ha ha, it did seem like he was sat there for an hour wondering to himself what Slavoj's hot take on Chernobyl was.
"Zizek interviewed by a Love Island contestant"
Zizek is a great guest, you just need to ask him a question and let him talk for the next hour or so
this guy is a monster in the interviews. he can talk and talk without get to the point. i really love it
I agree with Slavoj's critique of toxic masculinity! We on the left should embrace this concept, and reject the medicalisation of the concept of strong masculinity. Its really about taking a position and holding fast to it. Great conceptual work here! Well done Slavoj.
I think we should differentiate masculinity. Because masculinity is bred from the aspect of confidence, and the lack of it. The dangerous one being those who over exaggerate their masculinity. While aspect of honor, hardwork, and need for strength should be praised. The aspect of masculinity based on cruelty to inflate one ego should be chastised as cowardice.
You know what I really think has been the contemporary value of Zizek? It's not so much his ideas. Most people would struggle to express what he proposes or 'believes' in any particular area, although often they find themselves thinking, "that is such an ingenious insight!"
It's the amount you have to stretch your mind to follow what he's saying. He forces you to think hard. Not only does he go all over the place when it comes to philosophical terminologies and modes of thinking, but you have his deep lisping accent and ticks to contend with (absolutely no disrespect). Maybe his ultimate epitaph will not be as a 'philosopher', but as a 'revolutionary performance artist'. The man commands your attention and exercises your intellect... And so on.
And when it comes to ideas, the proposal that Reagonomics was more destructive to family values than all the left-wing identity empowerment movements is a great way of expressing what I feel very many people are slowly starting to realise. The right have some honestly noble values (i.e. people need a family), which the left should not be reactionary against, but the politicians posing as representatives of people who identify as right wing are much more often than not just shills for capital over everything.
Monetary Wealth as the only paradigm of value.
Zizek is a genious and his constractive analysis of society grasps all the problems we face in our manipulative world.. He reveals in what mess we are thrown in. Well done .
I was happy to discover this thinker.
I could listen to Slavoj Žižek all day long without getting bored, but I still would not understand more than a third of what he says.
Thanks.
Technology falls behind when trying to record this legend..
Sometimes it's difficult to not interpret Zizek's philosophical ideas in an idealist manner. You have to wait for the examples and make something from them.
@50:30 Zizek's phone starts to ring.... lol.. I love him
zizek's nervous ticks seem a symptom of anxiety. which is expected when you know too much but eventually incapable of fixing the wrongs despite incessant efforts
I've had similar ticks for decades, and I know jack shit.
Or simply cocaina
Neurosis, admittedly so, he spent two years on the shrink's couch.
He has offered no real fix to anything. Perhaps he is anxious because he has noticed the obvious long ago : he is functionally useless.
It's incredible how many fascinating insights Slavoj is spitting here... I loved it!
No cocaine was used in the production of this video.
Hahaha I doubt that
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Indeed we live in Dangerous times.
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I would pay to see Zizek speak with Natalie Wynn
Gl0balist promoted bread tube has beenan intellectual joke, completely unable to intellectually engage honestly with the ideas of the right while only parroting globalist racial Marxism taking points to represent their world view
Spencer AM please define globalist racial Marxism
@@Neuroticmancer a racialist world view that takes the classical false dichotomy between the proletariat and bourgeoisie and applies to a series of false dyads from White vs "PoC" to Western culture vs non-Western. Racial and cultural marxism are but a few of the larger branches on intersectional racism and marxism. There is also gender and classical material dichotomies but racial marxism is the most toxic root driving the globalist left today.
@@spencer5028 cultural marxism is literally a nonsense term and invention by the nazi party to censor art, piss off
@@spencer5028 Nice straw man.
I love how he feels obliged to point out that he hates both Four Weddings and a Funeral as a movie and Hugh Grant and Andy McDowell as actors.
We need more autistic women!🥳 (I am autistic myself, and it is a prevalent notion that autistic women have "male" brains. We're just logical and don't put up with niceness. Many men are not as rational🤷♀️
37:10 -- You don't hear about the Ozone Hole any more, because, it's been healing. The various countries got together, worked out top-down protocols for solving the problem of ozone-depleting substances, and then... ...that worked! So the Ozone Hole was definitely solved by responsiveness to scientific perception, and social action in response.
i'm polish and he's wrong about Kaczynski, he used that word in 97 newspaper interview and completely in different sense. Zizek has to look for new polish friends :) i volunteer.
hes saying to the left: stop being snobbish
Sam D Seems like you don't know the difference between leftist and liberal. Lol
@@LeonWagg you are being snobbish
@@LeonWagg The problem is, that all is mixed today, there is wether healthy liberal nor left today.
Finanziell Unabhängig Finanziell Not really. I think you can still differentiate liberals from leftists. Leftists are much more radically in the way they see problems (like Zizek) liberals like to talk about marginal things (identity politics and so). Zizek really makes it clear in this video that ”liberals are not true leftists.”
megaproblem is my new favorite word
It's like an interview with Sylvester the cat.
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mitsterful, killer, plus you are showing your age .LOL mid 40s
I bet the interviewer wished he’d been wearing his wet suit
where he wipes his nose then his eye with the same hand....combining his tics to create new every more unhealthy ones...are we sure he isn't just the mad guy at the pub?
@@bradmodd7856 that would be an awesome pub session.
Its like the interviewer is getting psychoanalysed, but he doesn't utter a word.
The Ziz spitting fire!
He's certainly spitting!
I want to hear him say silly sausages
Gareth Wigglesworth “schelling sausages”
😂😂
greta 26:30
greta, slavoj, bernie , tulsi, varoufakis .... no bullshit people - my idols... you can't disrupt this huge hypocrite white college educated liberal conservative machine wearing gloves - punch them hard between the eyes on live tv, that's how you do it
@@TheSpookyDuke okay racist.
@@podjun80 yep i'm green college educated white person ;P
@Donald Trump and that audience isn't united on identity politics, race or religion.
I guess thats the power of true leadership.
Gollum
LOVE the great zizekian reversal...Thurnbergs masculinity, right wing postmodernism, left anti establishment. Read more Hegel! Frankfurt school too!
I think thats one of zizeks major contributions to free thinking. While newer leftists either refer later critical theory (demirovic, habermas, even a guy like richard david precht etc) or to post structuralism (buttler, foucault, derrida and all the french douchenozzles) zizek goes a step back refering to hegel and does a synthesis of hegel dialectic as the thesis and marx materialism as the anthithesis. With this 'fusion' of thinking he becomes much harder to understand at first grasp, because like i said most leftists believe mostly in the one or the other ideology and he uses both. But he then creates a pattern of thinking/ perspective which is completely new therefore very refreshing while not less true. A good example of this, for me was when he criticised 'dialectics of enlightment' (adorno and horkheimers major work as an explanaition on how nazism could become a thing as a logic following of the historic of reason itself). He didnt criticise it as being non valid or retarded/ untrue etc and therefore denying historical materialism. He just added that tje frankfurter school failed to explain the suffering in gulags and the raise of stalin with this logic. While stalinism for zizek was even a better example of the 'negative somehow pervertisation of enlightment'. He then gives examples of this thesis to ground it. Like the gulag members once a year had to group up and sign a birthday card for stalin. This shows the pervertion. On this level in stalinsim all people were treated the same and even prisoniers had 'the right to sign a card' or their signatures was seen as somehow worry enough to fo the effort of gathering them (what would be totally unimaginable with jews in auschwitz since they had no inner worth for the nazis). On the other hand they were judt burgeoise scum and had to work until they die...
Where are all those new trees Zizek is talking about? Forest definitely didn't regrow where modern cities, roads and industries are build. In mater of fact, forest was cut down for construction materials, necessary for urban expansion. Trees can never climb back to hill tops, where erosion washed fertile soil to the bare rocks. Amazon forest is now palm oil and industrial plants farm. 15 billion trees are cut down each year. Single tree grow about 20+ years.
So where is all this new forest he was talking about?
Great PR that - I'm definitely going to have to read his book now just to find out what it's about.
00:39:05 "And the last, I will stop, I will not talk endlessly"
Brilliant
I really wanted to hear what he was going to say about refugees, and then the interviewer cut him off.
Is heasupporter of gl0balist neo colonialism?
just the casual Zizek interview on… Joe???? and it’s not the only one? fuckin awesome
Zizek: I need you now to change your outfit into leather to be my domina
Interviewer: Ok.... sure! :)
The way Žižek sits, I thought he had only a left arm.
"Horror, horror, lynch me if you want" @ 31:50
The correct translation of what was said in Polish is in fact "now it's our f-ing turn", I think he misinterpreted it a bit. The well-known Polish expletive comes from the concept of a loose woman, but can mean many different things or serve to simply emphasize the point - like it does in this case
I have a feeling he doesn't do his own audiobooks.
New drinking game:
1) Watch a Zizek video
2) Take a shot every time he sniffs, touches his nose, says "and so on and so on" or "ideology"
“*Sniff* and so on and so on”
-zizek
You know
Its like this
And so on
Actually, what Kaczynski meant wasn't a military quote, the word "kurwa", which literally means 'a prostitute / whore', can be also used to emphasize emotions, so what he meant would be more like: 'Now it's our fucking turn [to run the country]'.
Good to see Slavoj!
Can’t wait for the Hegel and Neurolink book
With all respect for my compatriot, given that we were both born in that country that is no more, his interpretation of the disintegration of Yugoslavia sadly fits into the mainstream narrative of oversimplifies good guys vs bad guys.
Nationalism was on the rise in all ex-Yu republics in the '80s, but Milosevic came to power late that decade (not in early 80 as Zizek said), whereas Slovenian, Croat and Albanian nationalism has been brewing since the end of WWII. Serbian national identity was last to pick up, as Serbs, with Montenegrins, ware last to leave the boat, not first.
Chomsky explained that very well.
Anyone interested in the background and context of what Zizek left out can be seen in - Yugoslavia The Avoidable War documentary series.
chomsky? the guy who said that there was no democracy in the ussr? No thanks, I don't read traitorous liberal scumbags like him.
The great Slovenian Hegelman!
Fine show! Thank you.
after 1hr of session like this who dares to shake Slavoy's left hand? anyone?
*sniff* this is very ironic you mentioned it. In the past the act of showing your right hand was to *sniff* ensure the other person that you don't hold any weapons but as for opposite the left hand is deemed to bare all the filth that one had and so on...
So as I see your question is whether we * sniff* the ones who observe Zizek comply with the ideolgies provided -which is of course ( sorry for brutality ) utter bullsh*t or we are ought to convey *sniff* the basic premises of the philosophy and dialectics and so on, to maintain the geist .... As it is for the *sniff* *wipes nose finally* all humans to frantically save themselves from *sniff* entropy an so on and so on...
@@antoniszczepanski5757 Magnifique
@@apalepeks2000 let's have platonic relationship - u understand me
The boy interviewer is thinking about a spliff with a gallon of craft beer.
He is my favourite; no matter what the hack he is doing with his nose. I’m afraid 😟 , compared with those old days, the edge of his nose getting more red than earlier. ( what will happen Dr Zizek’s hands tie to the chair and ask him to talk) Wonderful interview, though!
Nilantha Ilangamuwa 'cocaine is a hell of a drug' -r.j.
And you took upon yourself the liberty to make that trivial comment!
tourette’s dude , it’s a tic.
@@Yor_gamma_ix_bae Thanks for the response!
@@darodarius5196 Appreciated the time you have grabbed to response to my "trivial comment"
reminds me of bukowski: 'find what you love and let it kill you'
The World: DRUGS ARE DANGEROUS, THAT'S WHY WE MADE THEM ILLEGAL
Zizek: "you know, That's the irony of it..."
Slavoj Zizek saying "Pleasure all mine" might be the most surreal thing ever since Slavoj Zjzek
But pleasure all mine what though?!?
Very good interviewer. Haven't seen him have a bad one yet.
Flying all over the place. If engineers and architects would design in this style, never would anything be completed.
Ironically, Zizek's failure to have clear sinuses is also what makes him so endearing to watch! His imperfections are what make him an absolute gem.
4:34 Samuel Beckett wasn't a psychologist and never worked as a counsellor, therapist or whatsoever. Slavoj Zizek is undoubtedly a brilliant mind and has a lot interesting things to say but here and then in order to prove his point he uses some anecdotal paraboles that are so much made up...
Zizek, one of the greatest thinkers of our time.