Full lecture: On Žižek’s theory of perfection

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  • Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
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Комментарии • 71

  • @merenis7627
    @merenis7627 Год назад +9

    Pure gold, I love that it's such a current analysis, almost no one is talking about the fake authenticity yet. And it relates to what I was thinking about so much :) thank you

  • @absolutelysanedefinitelynormal
    @absolutelysanedefinitelynormal 2 года назад +31

    Thank you for making these videos available for free. I'm interested and invested in learning about philosophy, but it is highly inaccessible to most people.
    Your explanation makes hard topics and often convoluted philosophical terms much simpler and easy to digest.
    Your content is very enjoyable. I'm probably going to binge watch everything you've done so far. :D
    Also, hello to you from Russia!

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  2 года назад +9

      Thank you so much! That’s the dream, to prove that education can be accessible and entertaining without dumbing to down. Thank you for understanding

  • @sentimentalsediment3000
    @sentimentalsediment3000 2 года назад +18

    So happy this found me, self help is rotting my brain

  • @szymonukaszewski4910
    @szymonukaszewski4910 2 года назад +57

    I'm going to stay with the theory that Zizek is your father

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  2 года назад +23

      Well my father is a professor so it’s close enough 😂

    • @szymonukaszewski4910
      @szymonukaszewski4910 2 года назад +8

      @@julianphilosophy Professor of what? I'm intrested

    • @totonow6955
      @totonow6955 2 года назад +3

      Not enough sniffing ; ) ... Love them both. Cheers to you.

  • @jonathanwoodvincent
    @jonathanwoodvincent 2 года назад +10

    4:55 starts the lecture proper

  • @Slim-Richard
    @Slim-Richard Год назад +4

    You can look at Saint-Exupery quote as not embracing the imperfection but catching the essence. Especially when you apply it to objects. Its often used in design. You can add features indefinitely but it will distract from items purpose, will make it chaotic, when you strip the object to essencial features, all of them become purposefull and harmonic.

  • @greensleevez
    @greensleevez Месяц назад

    This is an actual tech quote from Civilization IV: "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

  • @17goffshas
    @17goffshas 2 года назад +5

    Authenticity is imperfection. The ability to be one's whole self, both flaws and graces included. To know both triumph and failure; to live moment by moment as both self and moment change. To be eternally ephemeral.

    • @foodchewer
      @foodchewer 19 дней назад

      I don't know what else to say but based.

  • @wolfgangkohlhof2180
    @wolfgangkohlhof2180 2 года назад +2

    All about holding it possible to conclude, to engage, to devote yourself, so all about negation of logic, morality, dignity. What stays is the inviting, the provoking, the joking of yourself, the world, even god.
    And believing as an expression of thankfulness for the precious and fragile and endangered gift of love, setting all the hope available into the "fact", that loss won't - in true, but irrational terms - mean just loss of love, but even in loss of love loss of loss itself, so that resurrection - in even more irrational terms - is, in the eyes of reality itself, a logical turn, a kind of wordless conclusion.
    Thanks for the video (Germany)

  • @huseyinkerem6010
    @huseyinkerem6010 Год назад +2

    Greetings from Istanbul. Glad to learn you two met here. Keep up the good work!

  • @webquestAUS
    @webquestAUS 2 года назад +4

    What a perfectly (im)perfect way to share love. Thank you! ❤️

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  2 года назад +1

      My pleasure! Thanks for watching. And if you liked the lecture you might also enjoy the podcast I recorded afterwards. Available here: www.patreon.com/jenalineandjulian

  • @mardybum74
    @mardybum74 Год назад +2

    this lecture is amazing

  • @RuthParodies
    @RuthParodies Год назад +3

    Do you also have a Spotify, Julian? Would love listening to your lectures whilst biking (Greetings from the Netherlands)

  • @user-il9ze9py8c
    @user-il9ze9py8c 2 года назад +5

    I know this might be a lot, but would you be willing to drop links to the books you use in your lectures? That or like a reading list. Love the videos!

  • @hewasfuzzywuzzy3583
    @hewasfuzzywuzzy3583 3 дня назад

    I need an updated unglitched version or revisit of this entire video. I don't mean to be nagging or complaining-which means I'm going to or I already am. This could have been so much more replayabe if not for the technical issues you were continuing to have after trying to fix it.
    * sigh * There's a lot I can salvage though from what did come through. I'll just have to listen in small bites and think a lot more than I thought I would have to. So, i guess this makes me listen better. And think more. And not just consume and move onto the next piece of content to, consume without thought.
    Sooo.... Thank you. Really!

  • @Makiade
    @Makiade 2 года назад +4

    Good stuff, From Kenya🇰🇪

  • @emanuela4128
    @emanuela4128 2 года назад +2

    Thank you for making videos! From Czech republic

  • @luboba1
    @luboba1 6 месяцев назад

    I just stumbled upon your channel and I like it so much already. So much to think about! Cheers, from Salvador-Bahia-Brazil

  • @soyivanv6609
    @soyivanv6609 2 года назад +3

    Wonderful videoooo
    Greetings from Mexico!

  • @noctisumbra4656
    @noctisumbra4656 2 года назад +2

    Watching this video from Colombia c:

  • @kamkamkam_
    @kamkamkam_ 5 месяцев назад

    Greetings from Manila, Philippines

  • @abtinshirzadi3195
    @abtinshirzadi3195 2 года назад +4

    Blessings from Kurdistan

  • @blacksheep7370
    @blacksheep7370 Год назад +2

    Can you do something on the intersectionality of eastern philosophy and Zizek thoughts.

  • @evilsdouble
    @evilsdouble 2 года назад +3

    Loving it!

  • @metrineruth2653
    @metrineruth2653 Год назад +1

    Greetings from Kenya🇰🇪

  • @greensleevez
    @greensleevez Месяц назад

    I actually think the audio imperfections are part of the .

  • @mrsbrownstone2471
    @mrsbrownstone2471 2 года назад

    Greetings from Serbia! Keep up the good work!

  • @soloocio4926
    @soloocio4926 Год назад +1

    Saludos desde Morelia, Michoacán, MX

  • @Vladimir-Struja
    @Vladimir-Struja 2 года назад +1

    People on dating profile biographies often claim that they are authentic, when describing their character. Interestingly enough, those same people appear most inauthentic...

  • @fm5399
    @fm5399 2 года назад

    Thanks from Italy!

  • @hediehsh4817
    @hediehsh4817 9 месяцев назад

    This one is speechless

  • @p.l.g.y.9434
    @p.l.g.y.9434 2 года назад +1

    joining you from india : )

  • @tyrdunbar
    @tyrdunbar 2 года назад

    Love these vids. Listening from kentucky love your tiktoks too

  • @SonnyTheJoker
    @SonnyTheJoker Год назад

    Greetings from Thailand

  • @julian_laso2004
    @julian_laso2004 Год назад

    Ecuador hahahaha, i love ur videos and it's super helpful to understand some text and concepts that im reading by myself jsjssjsj

  • @JimiFilo
    @JimiFilo Год назад +1

    Anything **curated** as an “aesthetic” cannot be “authentic”.

  • @caterinaint6963
    @caterinaint6963 2 года назад

    Hi from Australia

  • @markromine5103
    @markromine5103 2 года назад +2

    Excellent yt clickbait. Zizek on something with no Zizek. Noice.

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  2 года назад +1

      I’m sorry you felt that way, but this strikes me as unfair. I’ve posted more than 50 Žižek lectures to my channel, none of which include Žižek.

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  2 года назад +5

      But if it makes you happy I can change the title. How about ‘On Žižek’s theory of perfection?’ See new title. Hope that’s better.

  • @salahzarita3022
    @salahzarita3022 Год назад

    love from algeria

  • @iliyaboyanov558
    @iliyaboyanov558 2 года назад +7

    Isn’t it 3 pounds and not 30 😂

    • @iliyaboyanov558
      @iliyaboyanov558 2 года назад +1

      With 3 you can empathise how you are closer to perfection and you should stay there close to the perfection barrier

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  2 года назад

      You’re right

    • @manueljohn456
      @manueljohn456 2 года назад +2

      I think it was 5 ;) but i feel like the difference between 3/5 and 30 is absolutely crucial. 30 pounds more or less is a world of difference in many regards, often with actual benefits, looks-wise and health-wise. Being 30 pounds overweight and wanting to lose some of that has nothing intrinsically to do with perfection, just with improvement. Wanting to lose 3/5 pounds, on the other hand... is exactly the chase for perfection that zizek is talking about.

  • @jimmypk1353
    @jimmypk1353 2 года назад

    Love from Pakistan! ❤

  • @mauve9266
    @mauve9266 Год назад

    22:50

  • @joelexperienced
    @joelexperienced 2 года назад +2

    Came for the spit, was disappointed

  • @Majkels
    @Majkels 2 года назад

    Are you formally educated in Philosophy?

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  2 года назад +6

      Yes and no. I didn’t do a degree in philosophy but did a BA in post colonial theory, an Ma in cultural studies, and a PhD in politics (theory and IR focused). But that’s actually quite a common trajectory for continental theorists

  • @torbjornkarlsen
    @torbjornkarlsen 7 месяцев назад

    Riveting stuff but the sound is really laggy. No doubt a clear sign of true perfection, but it is a little difficult to hear what you're saying.

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  7 месяцев назад

      Just purchased a good mic and hoping to use it for the next lecture. Thanks for taking the time to watch!

  • @talibaltib7280
    @talibaltib7280 2 года назад +2

    🇮🇶 iraq

  • @elbowroom3663
    @elbowroom3663 2 месяца назад

    The Buddha had this figured out 2500 years ago.

  • @ime90
    @ime90 2 года назад

    Croatia

  • @ioscorn4865
    @ioscorn4865 2 года назад

    Nepal🇳🇵🤙

  • @Chrisjavier2604
    @Chrisjavier2604 Год назад

    Leo davinci’s work is perfection, look at David, in this example thus does not apply

  • @user-yt7zo3rf6d
    @user-yt7zo3rf6d Год назад

    Belarus

  • @mostaphaabdul-samed8573
    @mostaphaabdul-samed8573 Год назад

    Iraq

  • @kestutisa3826
    @kestutisa3826 2 года назад +3

    fake Žižek