Mini-Lecture: Žižek vs. Postmodernism
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- In today’s mini-lecture, Žižek’s critique of the postmodern logic of capitalism, and what he calls ‘Post-Political Bio-Politics.’
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I found this lecture particularly well communicated and impactful, thank you Julian!
Listening to this I wonder about Zizeks take on the common arguments that we live in a "culture of narcissism". Would be amazing if you could do a video about that!
That was an awesome lecture, there was so much to unpack!
makes me surprised that you could fit it into just 11 minutes.
Love your way of explaining things on this criminally underrated channel
Thia is..Genius 🙏🏻
Julian, can you do a little video about your bookshelf? Would be interesting if you could walk us through your collection :)
Wow you know in recent years as I’ve become more educated in leftist theory and philosophy it has increasingly bothered me all this quantifying. I couldn’t figure out why, but this is a great articulation.
Thank you so much for this lecture!
Edit: I keep noticing this pattern where something seemingly innocuous bothers me and then I find someone talking about it directly in a way that perfectly explains it.
Synchronicity, eh? Like the universe is aligning to tell you what you need, when you need it.
@@PsychicAlchemy I haven’t read much Jung but that idea is interesting to me. I know it’s older than Jung, at least the basic idea I know, but I know it from him
Great lecture!!
very intelligent and intriguing intro to zizek's critique of the late capitalist way of thinking.
Great lecture! It does wonders for my skin!
In some moments this so dense that it took me more that 1 h making a note about this
Listening your lectures is so great. I cannot thank you enough. But could you please give more Zizek's (or other's) writings as reference for those like to learn further about the topics? You can place them in the video description too.
Hello I'm new here, great video! May I ask, is the introduction to Žižek book you talk about the one called Sisyphus in Love?
Seems like an elaborate explanation for "Class Consciousness"
very good video. very good
I got lost around 9 mins. It felt a bit rushed to me, or maybe I'm just missing something.
It felt like a big jump from ethical consumption being sold back to you to a politics of fear. Is it implied that since people feel the need to protect their own identity of self that instills a fear of attacking someone's else's?
That's the only was I can make the jump to fear of harassment.
I think this critique is great but does Zizek offer any way out of this or are we ultimately doomed?
yes.
Another thought, hyper vigilance is a consequence of experiencing frequent harassment, being harassed feels bad because it is rejection and can be used to damage your social standing and well being. To propose that this phenomenon is symptomatic of the post modern is pigeon holing.
Could this apply to working a job as well? Because I only work my job to get money for my own self improvement and goals rather than to contribute to any whole or to society.
kinda yes and kinda no. Many jobs are essential or useful to society (like farmers, builders, and teachers), but the way soemone thinks about their job to only get money can be applied, but even existence of one person to for example making your friends happier or helping family.
If someone wants to unchain Zizek's mind,this is best channel to visit! Zero Books & Ben Burgis & co are too smug for my taste (although I've read 20 Pervert's books & saw probably more lectures than I should have)
I have the same spirited away money box
Not sure what form of postmodernism Zizek is identifying here - certainly not postmodern philosophy? Especially seeing the emphasis you put on Peterson
Is your patron active?
It is! www.patreon.com/julianphilosophy
@@julianphilosophy i apologize. I saw it as jeanlineandjulian
This is some seriously disturbing stuff
Elaborate. What’s on your mind?
Jordan Peterson said: tidy up your room before the critique system :) This sentence is directed to young people not Žižek :)) We have a lot of Rebels without Cause protestors, where protestors can not explain what we rebelling about, and Žižek pointing causes of today's rebels against Post-modern or Bio-politics.
Žižek as an ex-Soviet man understands the better reality of late capitalism more than nobody else definitely better than Jordan Peterson. In an ex-Soviet state in 1990-1996 7000 thousand of factories have been closed but the air quality is worst because everyone is (car-Tsar) enjoying their life and detaching themselves from ecology, car ownership increased 35 times from 1991 till now, and oil stain oil stain on asphalt rainbow parade of oil stains LoL, freshwater quality nobody cares. Is like Richards Dawkins's Atheist Bus Campaign - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheist_Bus_Campaign. in 2009 with the slogan: "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life." Detachment from humanity, pollution, ecology, global warming, FUCK IT. Dostoevsky: Godless Earth, thus everything is allowed. Go to Tesco buy gluten-free bread in a biodegradable plastic package and feel good about yourself. The irony of this Atheist bus is that Top Gear host said only looser use public transport so Ad is for car users, who enjoy independence, freedom of the road, and individuality from crowded buses. In the 50s James Dean was a rebel today we have a lot of nihilism, with the slogan nothing else matters. Dark Knight Michael Caine's quote about Joker From rebel youth of the 50s to nihilist kids of today, or kids who embrace postmodernism capitalism and transport carcinogenic polluted air are no worries for them, “Apocalypse Now”: “I love the smell of napalm (diesel fuel) in the morning. It smells like victory.> LoL
Mass media informs me, don't eat ocean-caught fish because fish is contaminated with microplastic which also is carcinogenic. What are other choices?
If it’s not directed at Zizek then it ought to be directed at Peterson.
Peterson has been shown, not only literally but also metaphorically, to be unable to clean his room.
Yet he’s spent so much of his life through books and lectures trying to literally change society.
Peterson is a living hypocrite who literally thinks he is a prophet.
Why not do both? If someone is at the bottom of the system, they have a relevant view to see its flaws and critique it. If the call is for them to make it to the top of the system before critiquing it, then, having made it, what kind of critique exactly are they going to make? Jay Z sold drugs before he made it big rapping, and now he's a billionaire trying to teach the poor how to invest in NFTs; not exactly dismantling power...
I think the interpretation you or Zizek gives of the postmodern "self-help" narrative is not accurate. While i dont know anything about Liverking? I do know that your interpretation of Jordan Peterson highlights the wrong points. To properly understand where the notion of turning inwards before pivoting "outwards" you cant be describing some capitalistic motivation of optimazation. Where Jordan Peterson puts his emphasis, as did Jung and even Franz Fanon (the father of postmodernism) is in a psychoanalytic framework. It is the idea that the individual is a microcosmos embedded in the cosmos, reflecting his surroundings. It is not a systematization of your life, its completely the opposite, it is more in the terms of Nietzsche when he talks of affirmation, or when Jung speaks about individuation, or Glissants concepts about Relation and roots. It is acceptance of yourself, which entails the acceptance of what exists beyond you. It is not a hyper individualistic motion, it is exactly the opposite. Sartre (drawing from the french-Nietzschean philosophy) describes it in terms of taking radical responsibility for your self, and that totally includes everyone else that is in contact with your "microcosmos".
While JP defintiely enjoys hard work and productivity, cleaning his room, he is merely stating the fact that our cosmos is a place of suffering and constant challenges, so you are essentially doing a grave mistake of not accepting and processing that, and finally dealing with it. The assumption of optimazation in many of these writers works is just a superficial account of what is really a very intrinsic and phenomenological experience that stretches far beyond some capitalistic ideal.
Petersen is the soothing voice of Fascism.
@@john-lenin well i think it's easy to get lost in the whole of his message. And he postures i guess. But in my mind he reshuffled the hierarchy of values, putting tradition, structure and arguably power up there as quite important.
But he still shares an extremely similar perspective to Franz Fanon (who quotes both Freud and Jung in much the same way as JP), who is (i think) thought of as a founding critical theorist. Both of them, like Jung, despises facism and have established their scientific and philosophical premises in what is a healthy functioning of the psyche of an individual.
@@joarsolbakk7160 I disagree with your conclusions. Jordan may say one thing, but he is quite far from the "Beautiful Soul" discourse that Zizek takes from Hegel and very steeped in ideology. He's not worried about the good of individuals or people reflecting their conscience, or truly examining the framework of the society we live in.
Jordan's first and foremost priority is upholding tradition and worry that western civilization will fall if the youth aren't faithful enough, if they don't show fidelity to rulers and patience with their exploiters, if they don't see abuses in imperialist praxis as a sign of greatness for their culture, if they don't work to perpetuate them. Yes, socialism with a human face can lead to elements of fascism. Every single line he espouses however is an ode to Hobbes and Locke and he desires nothing more than a discourse of the Master.
He as an aged white professor cannot see he's just peddling old guard conservatism and authoritarianism at its most regressive.
@@joarsolbakk7160 >Jung despised facism
“die tatsächlich bestehenden und einsichtigen Leuten schon längst bekannten Verschiedenheiten der germanischen und der jüdischen Psychologie sollen nicht mehr verwischt sein.”
Žižek absolutely BODIED Peterson in their debate a few years ago, bro was literally Googling Marx after Žižek's first reply, pls don't bring up this pseudo intellectual fascist in here again