Slavoj Zizek about European Graduate School EGS 2006 1/2
http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Zizek interviewed by Wei Chan and Christian Haenggi, talking about European Graduate School, teaching philosophies and academia, and referring to Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Giorgio Agamben, and Noam Chomsky. Slavoj Zizek Free public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, EUROPE, 2006 Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Zizek, a Slovenian sociologist, postmodern philosopher, and cultural critic is a professor at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana and at the European Graduate School EGS who uses popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and the theory of Jacques Lacan to explain politics and popular culture. He was born in 1949 in Ljubljana, Slovenia where he lives to this day but he has lectured at universities around the world. He was analysed by Jacques Alain Miller, Jacques Lacan’s son in law. His research focuses on Karl Marx, Hegel and Schellingfundamentalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock. He has published many books and translations in several languages. He is the author of The Sublime Object of Ideology, 1989, Beyond Discourse Analysis (a part in Ernesto Laclau’s New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time), London: Verso. 1990, For They Know Not What They Do, London: Verso. 1991, Looking Awry, MIT Press. Enjoy Your Symptom!, Routledge. 1992, Tarrying With the Negative, Durham, New Carolina: Duke University Press. 1993, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan, But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock,1993, The Metastates of Enjoyment,1994, The Indivisible Remainder: Essays on Schelling and Related Matters, 1996, The Abyss of Freedom, University of Michigan Press. 1997, The Plague of Fantasies, Multi-culturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multi-national Capitalism, New Left Review, issue 225 pgs. 28–51, The Ticklish Subject, 1999, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (authored with Judith Butler and Ernesto Laclau), Verso. 2000, The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch’s Lost Highway, Washington: University of Washington Press. The Fragile Absolute, 2000, Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?. 2001, The Fright of Real Tears: Kryzystof Kie?lowski Between Theory and Post-Theory, British Film Institute (BFI), On Belief, Routledge. Opera’s Second Death, Repeating Lenin, Zagreb: Arkzin D.O.O. 2001, Welcome to the Desert of the Real, 2002, Revolution at the Gates: Žižek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings, Organs Without Bodies. 2003, The Puppet and the Dwarf, 2003, Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle, 2004, Interrogating the Real, London, Continuum International Publishing Group. 2005, The Universal Exception, London, 2006, Neighbors and Other Monsters (in The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology), Cambridge, Massachusetts: University of Chicago Press. The Parallax View, How to Read Lacan, New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2007
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this guy makes me …
this guy makes me nervous…
I read a lot of his …
I read a lot of his works, but I always got impatient hearing him talking without subtitles. How sad.
This guy is …
This guy is incredible-don’t share half of what he says but he is absolutly right about academic studies-they are in huge crises
looooooooooooooooool
looooooooooooooooool
Need a ENGLISH …
Need a ENGLISH teacher?
fail
fail
He uses the verbal …
He uses the verbal techniques of ‘pick up artist’. It’s probably Lacans doing.
Zizek is pro at …
Zizek is pro at terrorizing people. I love peoples responses to his work.
Thank you for …
Thank you for posting European Graduate School!
Paja patak ga šopa.
Paja patak ga šopa.
This is the best …
This is the best university commercial I’ve ever seen.
Thank you so much, …
Thank you so much, EGS, for these videos. The more I watch, the more I become enamored…
if you wanna hang …
if you wanna hang out, you gotta take her out…
Pointing out a …
Pointing out a speakers perceived vulgarities can be amusing, since not only is it considered to be impolite but it is altogether aside from the topic of discussion.
However, since you’ve brought it up, so was Freud – knowing Mr. Zizek as a Lacaninan, is it so surprising?
Pointing out a …
Pointing out a speakers perceived vulgarities can be amusing, since not only is it considered to be impolite but it is altogether aside from the topic of discussion.
However, since you’ve brought it up, so was Freud – knowing Mr. Zizek as a Lacaninan, is it so surprising?
Thank you egs for …
Thank you egs for making these presentations available.
ahha i love how he …
ahha i love how he starts with Epicurus’ notion of Gods existing in the “interspace”… and then goes on to make analogy with EGS, the space where “Gods” teach!
and… who’s the …
and… who’s the cocaine dealer at EGS?
perhaps a revenge …
perhaps a revenge against chomsky’s views on lacan? it’s a bit unfair i think, especially in the light of critical theory and action, where chomsky’s political work still is much more important than pretty much all of the critical european thinkers, including foucault and newer ones including most all of these egs lecturers. not that they don’t have great insights, but i still think chomsky’s critique of the european critical postmodern tradition is right on the money, as it were..
…it started out …
…it started out as a private joke, and then chomsky thought – why dont make a theory out of it! nice final statement to chomskys generative/universal grammar! hehe.
an intellectual …
an intellectual wanker
pass him some …
pass him some kleenex
sure he’s on coke. …
sure he’s on coke. What’s wrong if philosophy is continous search and thought enlightment?
However, compressed …
However, compressed study can lead to ‘information overload’ as in my case this year at Saas-Fee. I think the question is, is EGS an authentic ‘counterfoil institute’ as in Lindisfarne, as it was, or Black Mountain College? In other words, does one really get an education at EGS, or is it merely an “information system” that has a lot of latitude?
New College of …
New College of Florida, which I attended from 96 – 99, is a lot like the democratic streamlining of education he mentions. It’s a beautiful thing.