Slavoj Zizek. Materialism and Theology - 2007 7/8
http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Zizek lecturing about materialism and theology, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and the psychoanalysis of culture and societies. Videolecture focuses on fundamentalism, materialism, theology, atheism, atheists, humanists, humanism, reason, logic, rationality, intelligent design, believe, faith, religion, christian, christianity, islam, fundamentalists, fundamentalism, god, nature, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2007, Slavoj Zizek.
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 Kieślowski 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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donbarroco (May 30, 2008 at 6:55 am)
Basically, he says so in order to scare away idiots. Yet, there´s a dimension in Stalinism which makes it impossible to equal it to fascism: by making remarks on it, Zizek criticizes the lack of seriousness and ideological naivete of the liberal concept of totalitarism by telling us that there were notions in stalinism (discipline, sacrifice) which were not inherently totalitarian or bad, but were reapropiated by fascism. We got once again the kind of paradoxes that Zizek love...
0neironaut (April 17, 2008 at 8:08 am)
ahahah "some people would say your comments are... torture! rehee hee hee!"
0neironaut (April 17, 2008 at 7:58 am)
oh no, he IS a Stalinist!
mrmusler (March 15, 2008 at 11:26 pm)
"why are you for death penalty? because sam harris is alive."
WTF? what's his problem with mr. harris? he does not advocate torture of any kind, he advocates "conversational intolerance" meaning treating religious discourse like any other realm of human discourse.
exminre (January 8, 2008 at 1:22 am)
what is wrong with that guy in gray suit? seriously. he is kind of jealous of Zizek I guess.
tedhaggardly (January 6, 2008 at 11:57 pm)
I wonder if he's not taking a chemical enhancement via the nose. He's quite swift and he keeps sniffing and rubbing his nose. Just a silly thought.
ebauer (January 6, 2008 at 1:38 am)
He's not actually a Stalinist but says it with an excess which he believes is necessary in order to prevent the liberal consensus from reappropriating it.
chabrow (November 21, 2007 at 10:41 am)
Damn, Schirmacher is an unbearable smartass, trying to take Zizek from an ironic angle, but clearly lacking the intellectual capacities for that.
alexpg1 (November 9, 2007 at 3:16 am)
he's not a stalinist he was joking about that. How can any intellectual who wants to be taken seriously claim to be one?
briannewion (November 5, 2007 at 11:39 am)
Genetic/chemical augmentation has nothing to do with a project of 'completing the universe', has nothing to do with the ontology that Zizek describes. Rather, it is a matter of re-learning our perspective of nature -- undermining the binary opposition nature/artificial. |
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