Full Lecture: Žižek, “I would prefer not to”
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- In this lecture I do a deep dive into Žižek’s take on Bartleby the Scrivener’s “I would prefer not to’, and why Žižek is a self-characterized ‘DeathDrive Marxist’
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never in a million years did i think i would ever find someone who talks about my EXACT niche of interest zizek freud lacan marx!!! im from a small town in mexico thank you so much for your content it is much appreciated!
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That’s quite cool ngl😂
Fully enjoyed listening to this lecture...
Zizek will be really proud & so on and so on..
This is your best lecture yet. This is the one I've been replaying over and over again
Thank you!! Very good reasoning all the way through. Also good to be reminded of how solid and deep Zizek goes in his sometimes “populist” output. It’s all there. Solid. ❤
I learned more about Zizek from you than Zizek himself.
A true philosopher finding satisfaction in seeing his thoughts and ideas run their influence around the world.
Zizek’s concept of “pseudo activity” is something I’ve sensed for a while, but couldn’t conceptualize clearly until now. For example, renovations and repairs are often made much more complicated and expensive than they need to be. Our legal system in the U.S. is also notorious for how slow and complicated it is, producing neither justice nor peace.
That’s a great application of the idea! Mission-creep is so common especially for construction projects
IVE BEEN THINKIN THE EXACT SAME THING. BRO THEY BE TAKIN YEARS TO FULFILL COURT CASES.
Julian,
I never considered myself a sofisticted thinker, or even come to pretend I understand all the concepts and consequences, I mean, sometimes even the grammar and construction of the sentences inside an argument makes me dizzy.
I really appreciate your work. In my limited capacity, your argumentation / discourse / reading / interpretation / exposition of how Zizek reads and try to present us how he sees the world through the Hegel/Marx/Lacan lense to "see" our "reality", simply blew my mind....
BTW Great insight into Eva's mirror stage realization. Genius!
Thanks again!❤
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@@user-vg7zv5us5r he proved his point
Wow. This was astonishing. Ty, i cant wait to continue exploring these ideas further thanks to your warm, pleasant and passionate articulations. Zizek was particularly difficult to understand, but more and more things become more clear. I equally so, i see that marxism has had a sort of character assassination, ive never heard it be explained in this kind of way. Always as an economic system primarily, not its finer philosophical points
This is such a kind comment, truly, thank you. If you’re considering spending more time with these ideas you might also be interested in becoming a patron. The $5 tier grants access to a live q&a I record every week after the lecture which I also post as an audio for patrons. It’s easily my favorite part of the week. I think you might enjoy it as well! Thank you for the amazing comment. Link is: www.patreon.com/jenalineandjulian
Thank you very much for your lectures, you teach us so much! That is why I also feel need to teach you something. "Serbia" is not cold, it is in the South-Eastern Europe, just like Montenegro or North Macedonia. We are countries from former Yugoslavia. Žižek is also born in that country and he mentiones all our republics in his talks sometimes 😊.
Thank you for this. You're very eloquent, insightful and enjoyable to listen to 👌 I know we don't need external validation, but once in a while it's nice to find yourself nodding a lot hahah. I've been called unnatural on so many occasions not because I don't do things at all, but because I don't do things for the sake of doing them. I've been told I think too much, but it's always by people who don't really seem to think enough or at all. It makes you feel crazy and second guess yourself because things that people brush off, ignore or easily accept matter to you a lot. I also heavily resonate with the phrase 'bullshit jobs'. It's why I recently resigned from a prestigious job; I just couldn't take it anymore hahah.
I've experienced the exact same thing sooo many times
Congrats! This was very, very good,if not excellent 👌
Thank you! If this is to your liking I’d very much recommend joining one of our q&a sessions which I post after every lecture to my patreon. And it helps me keep this project going! If you’re interested, the link is: www.patreon.com/jenalineandjulian
My phone is 17 years old. It still has the original battery too. I'm not ashamed of using it at all. It saves me from so much crap. I don't need to look at pictures that people send me, because my phone can't show them. No internet, no need to check the news or my mail or anything all the time. No need to get a new application for this or that; couldn't care less.
Same kind of independence I have had all my life towards cosmetics. Whenever I enter a department store, the first floor can't sell me anything. I have zero interest in mascara of anything they have. Quite a powerful feeling.
Best explanation of anything to do with zizek I've ever come across, ty sir
Love to you my friend, this is powerful and concise, what we need in this hour. Respect
!14:03 14:30 attention
!16:39 repetition
20:21 off button
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20:43 to say I am here 20:36 subject to
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I'm glad to have someone explain it using terms I am accustomed to hearing. The references to the Bible were great. There is so much busy-ness that we are told to participate in, without much reflection on the subject of the state of the world itself and what can be done about it by simply refusing to participate. It's always been a trap in the self-improvement movements to focus only on attaining what you want from a flawed system by participating in it, and by extension to attempt fixing a flawed system from within it. Instead of taking this leaking boat that is our society to the drydock to really fix it, we continue to sail the boat and patch it from the inside. We are told that the ship is sinking because we are not good enough sailors, when by all accounts, from people of both the right and the left, it appears that *the ship was created to sink so that we continue to fix it.*
It's much like how in political discourse we are told to write our legislators, to vote, yet often the most radically aligned thing a politician could do for us is to simply not show up to work. If our choice of politicians really reflected our actual collective sentiments, there would be an empty chair. We would then be left to truly decide on something to do about this cessation, instead of the perpetuation, of a flawed system. Instead of continuing to wrestle with politicized issues ad nauseam from within a political environment, a collective agreement to refuse to participate in it would have the exact impact that the majority of us actually want.
another bomb of a lecture. 🤝
Plotinus’ concept of “the One” (which Plotinus insists is insentient) seems similar to what Julian means by “God” before God sees God’s reflection through human self consciousness.
26:00 --currently cleaning my keyboard while avoiding work. Thanks for the lecture.
You have a don mate! Explain so well. Thanks
Brilliant mate. Thanks
Great work! Greetings from Missouri!
wow. thank you Julian 😮!!
Wow! Amazing journey with big reveal perfectly time at the end.
Workers of the world, unite! Cast away your chains and your class.
love the a bugs life reference, here, have a stone
5:06 lecture starts
38:00 or, preferably, for higher education NOT to be a commodity...
Hi from México
But according the Marx-derived Vygotskyan Activity-Theory tradition, through Leontiev, etc., Activity involves both physical and conceptual action orientated together towards the achievement of both personal and socially-meaningful objects, with all its inherent tensions and contradictions. But it's not either/or, but thinking and acting are part of holistic "activity".
Watched from Romania
Sehr gutes Video!
Regarding the difference between being in the zone and repetition compulsion...
How is losing yourself in the zone (running, reaching a mountain top, attending a u2 concert).. similar to mindfulness? Doesn't zen involve greater awareness, i.e. being fully alive in the present moment taking it all in (sounds, thoughts, etc) rather than losing yourself?
Regarding pseudo-activity to avoid real action (ex. consumerism is the death drive of society), I like David Graeber BS Jobs suggestion that if you need to do something, give yourself the choice of that or just sitting there. BTW, any thoughts on the Zizek vs Jordan Peterson debate?
BTW, I understand Zizek uses Hegel (late 1700s)+Lacanian Psychoanalysis (1900s) to analyze Freud / Death-Drive -> Marxism ... but didn't Marxism (1850s) come before Freud (1900s)?
Joining from Nigeria
What’s in the vinyl collection 👀
Hii, loved this video!! Can you make it downloadable?
It’s also available as an audio download for patrons! 👍😊 visit: www.patreon.con/jenalineandjulian
Yo yo yo
Great lecture and critique of Jordan Peterson
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this was dope as fuck
is the fight for drug legalization a spurious infinity?
hello! from syria
Ill show you the life of the mind! Ill show you the life of the mind!
Omg i missed the stream 😢
Don't know if you read these comments but are you familiar with Julian Jaynes Bicameral Hypothesis?
I do read the comments. At least when I have a moment. Wasn’t familiar with it but have now read the Wikipedia entry
@@julianphilosophy While I haven't studied the hypothesis too in depth I quasi-incorporate it into my understanding of Hegel, Lacan, and Zizek
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"the fight for emancipation is the fight for time"
i dont kno how to spell the name of the person who you're quoting. can someone plz help out, id really like to kno more about them
“Modern times” Jacques Ranciere
@@julianphilosophy thanks!
Julian, can we read somewhere your publications?
Sure! On patreon you can download my ebook 👍
@@julianphilosophy To use this video's terminology: you are worth of our attention.
@@markoslavicek that is the biggest compliment you could give me 🙏
I Will Thinking
same
I will pay good money for that hat 🧢 no cap. Love from the Far East
no, thank you
Dude confused Serbia with Siberia.
the guy, EDC, on live chat is impotent
human be[com]ing
This guy looks and acts like he just woke up with a hangover.
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