Slavoj Žižek - The Rise of Obscene Masters: Taking Donald Trump seriously (Nov 2019)
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- Zizek's lecture delivered at Birkbeck (London) on November 20th 2019. This is one of those lectures that should be listened to very carefully in the upcoming elections, especially because it seems left leaning public has not learnt their lesson very well.
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Abstract:
Not such a long time ago, in a galaxy that now appears far, far away, the public space was clearly distinguished from the obscenities of private exchanges. Today, however, not only we can read in the mass media about the intimate details of public personalities, populist politicians themselves often regress to shameless obscenity. It is the very PUBLIC domain in which “fake news” circulates, in which rumors and conspiracy theories abound. One should not lose sight of what is so surprising about this rise of shameless obscenity. Traditionally (or in our retroactive view of tradition, at least), shameless obscenity worked as subversive, as an undermining of traditional domination, as depriving the Master of his false dignity. In the 1960s protesting students liked to use obscene words or make obscene gestures to embarrass figures of power and, so they claimed, denounce their hypocrisy. However, what we are getting today, with the exploding public obscenity, is not the disappearance of authority, of Master figures, but its forceful reappearance - we are getting something unimaginable decades ago, obscene Masters.
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“Something unexpected has to happen or else trump will be re-elected” can’t believe he said this right before corona
I love the fact that he keeps saying wikipedia instead of wikileaks
Love Zizek to bits.
How couldnt u ^.^
I’ve been overdosing on Zizek since 2013. I used to just be intellectually satisfied. Today I can say I love him too.
Me too. Nobody comes close. Not even Chomsky.
His insight here is extraordinary:
1:17:44
Thank you.
thank you. does anyone have part 2 of this yet?
Isn't out yet, or perhaps wasn't even recorded. If I find it, I will make sure it is here.
The Birbeck website lists the Day 2 lecture as 'FOR A LEFT THAT DARES TO SPEAK ITS NAME'
There is a lecture by the same name (given at CUNY) on this channel.
Nice one Belinski !
Zizek's analysis is too deep for the tiny brain of main stream left.
And even deeper for the narcissistic anti-thought fanaticism of the right, mainstream and fringe alike, which remains forever hysterically untouched by any need for analysis, whether deep or shallow.
@@rhetorical80 extensive and intensively , this is like literature for the ears not porno flick...
who ask you to represent the mainstream left
Or mainstream, or middlestream, or lowstream right lol.
We actually have to listen to him which is a lost art. I've never heard that about Snowden. Zizek's Tourettes is bad here. I'm not surprised that censorship is creeping in on him and we should start downloading and saving his talks.
In order to prevent from the idea of false dignity winning, there's no need spreading any violence - 'irrational' or 'rational'. What's desirable is returning to discussions concerning the issue of original national values. The origins of Joker do matter.
I love this man. Just his mind, of course. He should replace Chomsky as the World's Greatest Dissident. Zizek is a giant intellect and totally curmugeonably lovable .
His ability to psychoanalyse is a sword with a double edge. Everyone who listens to him should be aware of this.
You mean it can be used to critique any ideology? I don't think anyone is unaware of this, considering how much critique he addresses towards the mainstream left. :P What's disappointing is how badly this critique is usually received.
Monk a great show
@ 1:16 Speck does not mean 'steak' in German, it means 'bacon'.
Germans cut their bacon into cubes and their ham into strips; it's probably ideological like toilets.
Maybe there is this implication that the Joker is "hamming it up" while at the same time emphasizing that A. Speck is just an insignificant, little grain.
It's Fleck, not Speck, sorry.
@@raoulwise1654 Fleck means stain.. in case that helps..
COLUMBO REFERENCE!
Loved the Joker. Capitalism was literally the antagonist of that movie.
Dutch subtitle again!OMG
Nietzsche accused Kant of oriental thinking, and I will demonstrate that his intuition has come to fruition. Slavoj Zizek refers to Hegel in his “The Sublime Object of Ideology”: “…the actuality reduced to a possibility…” x. And again paraphrases Hegel on page xi, “… becomes actual as potentiality, only through language...”
It just takes a brief moment to cite Charles Sanders Peirce’s Categories, of which there are only three, to understand that trying to reduce one category to another, in this case actuality to possibility, is categorically unacceptable. Zizek’s thought is alien to western civilization.
He finishes the preface by suggesting that the critics of Hegel need a laxative. In the age of “On Bullshit,” a liar understands truth and the bullshitter understand persuasion, so Zizek is the Thales of Fecal incontinence.
It is not at all alien to Reality in the true sense the Possibility Space in QFT is the Square Root of Probability (paraphrasing Nick Herbert's unparalleled masterpiece in clarity). What could be more concrete!? We've measured the "nature" of reality and indeed found it alien to human understanding, only approachable in precisely that sense of symbolic abstraction* -Linear Algebra.
Consider also the state of history as it contrasts with historiography, and prediction with inevitable failure. Truly even the "now", is, scientifically speaking, invalid, as its a record is an imperfect impression upon neurons of the most recent past, and all decisions lie in the shadow of a 100 millisecond gap in the brains calculus.
Also, I'm fully aware that Žižek is a bullshitter; his perpetual allusions to "what I've been told" as well as the cesspool of popular culture is more than enough proof. In that way, he totally understands Trump, just as Michael Moore does (though of Course, Moore is a Leftist Establishment Shill for skittish Old Guard Socioeconomic Libertarians, so constantly works from a position of fear-mongering)
*I do however loathe Lacanian nonsense, and always revert to "ID, Ego, Superego" and try and filter it through a perspective of another (so I think) triphasic filter of Absurdism, Surrealism, and Realism. The best analogous descriptive system would be a Newman Projection. Science Applied outside its scope of Popper's Falsification Schema Within a second framework of Logical Positivism, is however, protoscientific to be uncharacteristically charitable. Frankly, it smacks of "Woo" as the hardline cryptofascist scientists like to toss about (PZ Meyers, NdG Tyson, Bill Nye, formerly Dawkins but he has gained some tact, some slight evidence of this also can bee seen from Tyson).
The unfortunate effect of trying to approximate a systematic philosophy via say Hegel or even a Trans-systematist like Nietzsche, is that you run can afoul of the same idiotic abstractions as Neoplatonism. Orientalist thinking hasn't failed, not nearly as often as has Western modes of thought. They can coexist very happily with one another, practically in mutualism, unlike the farcically parasitic syncretism of the West.
I would also like to point out that Kant was AGAINST Hegel, who thought, similar to Leibniz, that we could approach and inevitably capture Truth, unmediated. Ramon Llull may have one of the first Westerners to consider the idea, and despite many interpretations to the contrary, esoteric Eastern Spiritualism is founded on this as a matter of course.
Cratylus was one of very few to catch on that symbols become meaningless to the action, going beyond even the Platonists. Truly, can we Describe Color? Can we Describe flavor? The only thing left to us is the Question, and the very useful Loanword Mu.
I don't hold these views, as my allusions to technical diagrams illustrates. I think language creates the dichotomy to illustrate the Monoidal nature of Information, something possessed not by Truth, nor fact, not belief. Belief as an ingredient for Truth seems absolutely like a foundational fallacy, as action proves ideology, not the reverse--come to it, maybe that's what "War hallows all causes" was meant to implicate.
I also find dichotomies simplistic. Ideas are best regarded as shards of memetic information, acting like genes, phenotypes, epigenetic markers, and organisms in a Total ecology-- Rensch's Evolution above the Species Level is required reading.
Given the rise of Computers (Ascended to Ontological supremacy from the very Inception at Blechley Park), I think all systematists are vindicated by Result, and rhetoric has become superfluous. Not meaningless, certainly not benign, but truly unnecessary (purely Lamarchian or epigenetic, stemming from either the Id or the Absurd).
Apologies for the Guardian, Slavoj. Food and drink are presently an obsession of our media generally. What else can we talk about when our politics and economics are so embarrassing?
PS: Yes, Trump has brought Blue Collar Man back into the arena but only to ride on him.
El tipo dedicó varios minutos hablando del feminismo en México, ¿Por qué no viene a México? Invitenlo jodeeer!!!
lol he said AOC is sexually attractive
She is beautiful and intelligent. So what?
That’s somehow unimaginable to you?
1:02:11 i live in nsw australia there is no such thing, and if there is literally no one knows, cares, or obeys it.
www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/worldtoday/nsw-closer-to-introducing-new-sexual-consent-laws/11623012
They are introducing it.
but my point is erected... erected (she ruined it)
das leben der anderen... having voyeuristic tendencies i´ts hard to not enjoy the movie.
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delaney 2020
Godspeed
'Tramp' is a better pronunciation.
He's doing it deliberately.
uh he seems disoriented...
This entire thing is the da jokah lmao
Life is but a circus of circumstances, when you are a clown, or worse
a puppitmaster,
Mr Trump, try to be a descent one.
the joker