Slavoj Zizek about European Graduate School EGS 2006 2/2
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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I think its more …
I think its more likely that you lack the background knowledge to understand him. His style is somewhat rhetorical, but he isn’t pointlessly obscure.
Ugh… this is …
Ugh… this is ridiculous. Lots of these things you are complaining about weren’t even brought up….
besides, …
besides, wewillwinanarchy you didn’t get the point from the interview, did you? this was the very basic thing he said: decentralize the practical element!!!
hahaha, he’s great. …
hahaha, he’s great. That last “fuck you!” was just too funny
If bringing down …
If bringing down capitalism was easy or practical, wouldn’t it already have happened by now?
EGS – is it …
EGS – is it possible to make available the whole interview?
I find the theory …
I find the theory interesting, but I don’t see how this can help us bring down capitalism, the state, etc. Where is the practical element?
Define the term ” …
Define the term “wannabe radical.” Sounds to me like you’re speaking out of ideological narcissism rather than critical reflection.
What is the …
What is the academic circle to you; a celebrity circle?
If your to superficial to critically gaze a philosopher without having to ‘group them’ into ‘pop-star diva’ categories, you would best spend your time reading the Hollywood tabloids. You are such a toy.
ah id love to go to …
ah id love to go to this school, but i lack the brilliance! what a world! glub glub glub!
he’s perhaps just …
he’s perhaps just not the most gifted speaker, but that isn’t to say he doesn’t have great ideas.. i used to ing loathe the guy, but actually these egs lectures have made me brush off his texts and helped me to see him in a new space. i still think he’s ignorant on a lot of issues, meaning i still disagree with a lot, but now i’m nearer a ‘rational’ understanding of him. blablahahaha
am I the only one …
am I the only one who is unimpressed? I see no substance in Zizek at all, only rhetorics and obscurantism parading as depth and insight
Eh, Agamben is …
Eh, Agamben is sloppy.
He is too obese to …
He is too obese to do coke, ok, so stfu.
All of your …
All of your comments are … listen what he sais not if he is on coke or not…you just don’t understand his work…”Read then open your mouth”…critize the work…
Zizek is a piece of …
Zizek is a piece of . He is just a wannabees radical intellectual. He can never be like Foucault, D-G, Agamben, he is just way sloppy.
He is not on coke, …
He is not on coke, he is just giving sense to his Tourrette syndrome.
I believe so, he …
I believe so, he appears to be in every vid I have seen of him.
I wondered just the …
I wondered just the same when I started watching the vid. But I guess he´s just with a flu or something. Usually ppl. who think a lot, who are more “mental” than “body” are more sensitive when it comes to the nose, throat and ears.
As i wrote before I …
As i wrote before I am also flabbergasted by his presentation, but there is no doubt – his outbursts are even faster. I can’t imagine how fast he must think …
i hate to say this, …
i hate to say this, but is Zizek whacked out on coke?
Thank you for the …
Thank you for the comment. Yes, classic, but don’t tell that to Wikipedia.
“postmodern …
“postmodern brainwashing party school” — LOL, classic….
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