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1:03:08 Who is the musicologist philosopher that Mladen Dolar is hosting? I can't quite catch the name.

He keeps talking about “the western modernization project since the ancient Greeks” and I just don’t know what the F he is talking about. He knows there’s such a thing as the middle ages, right?

Badiou episode soon?

Fantastic, brilliant interview! Very interesting reading of the limits/end of psychoanalysis

Maybe in a word: The left is more concerned with passively being on the "right side of history" than with actually making history.

Thank you very much for this.

I remind Dr. West of the play Day of absence. The play depicts common and opprrssed people go missing for a day. It depicts the problems of the rulimg class because of this absense. I submit as we work everyday we fuel the evils of these empires. People of the world need to unite and strike until the ruling class get it right.

I have a constant suspicion that Zizek is really the ultimate troll in disguise. He is constantly making inconsistent experiments with his dialectical dance. Almost anything holds if you tell it in a convincing way. I totally disagree with his praise of Shortcuts (1:30:43). No, the "vulgar lefties" are right: the greatness of the movie IS in its depiction of the mute despair of lower middle classes; a despair which lacks even the most basic permission to articulate itselt. Who cares that its form tells us another story and even contradicts its content? Isn't it precisely an ideological intervention of happy Deleuzian multitudes as if to say that "things aren't really that bad"? How the hell can such a movie be the greatest one of the last half century (an incredibly bombastic claim to make, by the way)!???

A hundred years ago, G.K. Chesterton wrote, ''If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it, for in many ways, his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.'' He is not hampered by a sense of humor, or by charity, or by the dumb certainties of experience. He is the more logical for losing certain sane affections. Indeed, the common phrase for insanity is in this respect a misleading one. The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. An excerpt from “How to Think” by Alan Jacobs

You are a danger to children, Judy.

You are denying women their sex-based rights, and you are targeting the most marginal women with your luxury belief that males can change sex and so must be included in female only spaces and feminist politics. You are demanding males have a right to be housed in female only prisons. This is a violation of the Geneva convention. You are demanding women accept males as their OBGYN doctor, and do not allow women to choose a female. You are demanding women be housed with males in DV, SA and homeless shelters. You are demanding women lose their right to privacy in locker rooms and showers. You are demanding women be denied the right to a female officer when frisked, in custody or at airports etc. You are denying women their Title IX rights. You are denying women and girls the right to say NO to a male individual when he Self Identifies as a "woman." This is appalling.

There's much said about Balibar and Althusser does anyone have any thing on Balibar and Wallerstein ~ is the splitting between Althusser and Balibar captured by proxy in the tensions between Lacan and Deleuze? Between Analytical and Continental Philosophy? >>>>>

a very interesting author, indeed. Interesting also the comments Slavoj Zizek about some of his thoughts. I also admire Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda

Masturbate against the Master's bait? 🤔

Pippin is a brilliant writer, but rather blinkered in his discussion of the political situation in US and Europe.

i don't understand what is meant by "a performativity" around 23 mins

Frank Ruda is Ryan Gosling if he were a philosopher! 😂

In our commodified-conversationalized podcast-o-sphere, having these almost overbearingly stuffy academic introductions feels like a bit of a safe haven as well as a rebellion (dare I say intervention!!) for the times. Thanks for your work, Agon & Frank, not to mention Catherine!

Freedom is a state in which there is no force acting upon an individual, or all the forces acting upon him are equalized. This is the only materialist notion of freedom, derived from Newtonian laws of dynamics, the only laws of dynamics ever to be formulated. In Deleuzian terms, individual begins with the territory, and therefore those who have no territorial autonomy (literally a piece of land that belongs to them, where they are isolated from everyone else, free to do whatever they want) are not individuals. All definitions have to have form of experimental condition of assessment weather said individual fall in the category of free people, or not. The problem with todays corrupt feudal laws is they attribute freedom a'priori to each human, ideologically, and therefore expect slaves to act like free people to sustain the ideology, even if their material conditions are that of fundamental lack of physical autonomy, not to mention intellectual one (which is meaningless when the physical aspects are not met - what identity capitalism knows very well). The above is in consistence with what Slavoy said - the condition of freedom is a constant superposition, that is a form of order. This is why freedom does not exist in nature. Chaos of nature is the unbalance of many contradictory orders (not to be mistaken with disorder - a dialectical negativity of order). The problem with what I wrote & what Slavoy ultimately drive towards - is the origins of this type of logic. Newtonian logic, the dynamics, is a logic of inanimate objects, not agents. If we apply dynamic to any problem, we exclude possibility of recognizing agency or intellect of any kind.

Nice talk! But I doubt that the (counter-marxist) "anarchist state(ment)" is to be looked for back in Hegel - however platizised it may be (ca.min 28). Paradoxically, the place to look for might be the late Schelling, who not only inspired mid-19th century anarchists like Bakunin and French socialists like Pierre Leroux; but was himself since very early a cripto-anarchist; Schelling, whose proto-philosophical anarchism was blatantly disavowed by young Hegelians to the point that Marx even called him "the Prussian policy sub specie philosophiae".

Your first talk I've listened to, really enjoyable thank you. Ps. Greetings Frank from former student 👋

great talk!

Cornel West 2024

*PromoSM* 😋

Keep it simple Dr West

No voice brings me more comfort than that of this man.

love is all that matters, really.

what is this beautiful music at the end of the interview? Can anyone tell me what piece of music it's coming from?

Let the american people be Aware that the u s. Military Is being used as a agency Of war for zionist landgrabs Thats why they have blacks Whom they hate upfront as the Spear

For "RATIONALLY SANE" Leadership, Dr. "CORNEL WEST" for President 2024 "or BUST!!!" Everything "CAN" be taken from US, except "OUR" CHOICE! It would be "TRAGICALLY IRONIC," for "AMERICA" and the "ENTIRE" WORLD'S (99%) "POOR/WORKING-CLASS" population "CASTE," if the "UNITED" States of America, as we "CURRENTLY" know it, "SQUANDERS" this "ONCE" in a multiple generation/" LIFETIME" OPPORTUNITY, to have the LEVEL of "INTELLECTUALLY POWERED" MORALITY available in the likes of a Dr. "CORNEL WEST," as an American "PRESIDENTIAL" LEADERSHIP CHOICE! And, only to "REJECT IT," in the "CLEAR LIGHT" of "ONGOING" PUBLIC CITIZEN'S TRIAL(S), "CONVICTING" the SUPPORTERS of America's NEWLY "DEFEATED" EX-PRESIDENT Donald J. Trump for FOLLOWING his "BLATANT" INSTRUCTIONS to "FIGHT" in a "FAILED" COUP ATTEMPT, to "OVERTHROW" the AMERICAN GOVERNMENT; so, that, he would MAINTAIN POWER, in "DICTATORSHIP," circumventing "DEMOCRACY" in the Democratic process of America's "EXCHANGE-OF-LEADERSHIP-POWERS!"

A madman cocaine-adict pretending to be a a serious thinker and so on and so on. No wonder he sells so much of his bs.

I like this idea of yours very much!

He said it right about the leadership. They want us to choose between WW3 and Civil War

Wow Dr. Cornell West the man, the myth, the human encyclopedia and the legend

he never utters a word agains technology and technique ... How lame. Instead the same broken record of Blues, Coltrane and lost black purity... Bogus!

Cornel's unvetted record sports a neoliberal imperialist reality. The reason this nation has moved so far to the right is because the self-identified "left" is either no left at all, or absolutely disinterested in confronting reality.

Ranciere is one endearing old man philosopher.

It’s a rare and priceless thing to watch a video with DrWest. Grateful of this time, in spite of the pain we go through presently.

I'm happy to sit in to hear from an educated teacher. Thank you for this experience.

What was the book that Zizek referenced about Hitler for the context for his rise?

Wait what? There a debate going on soon with Zizek and West. No way, do we have details? Is this a public event? Can we get details? I will be there in a heartbeat. I love both of them. Is this real.

Dr Cornel West for President 2024. ❤️

Dr. West, its skinny Matthew from Stop Stop & Frisk. Please start doing regular short videos, 4 minutes. These long segments you film are great. But the attention span of the average viewer is considerably shorter. We need to see vids of you every other day, short ones.

Veering into the daunting I see. Is the philosopher one for power though? Imagine Zizek in control!

Fascinating discussion 👏👏👏

Idk who you guys are,but you can not "provoke" dr West with Zizekian gospel questions☝️😂😂😂 I like Slovenian pervert,but he's not Cornel! Žižek does have best critique of ideology,to this day tho

People are so blind & deaf, western culture is so devastated when greatest living intelectual goes into run for president of US, with underdog status, below rest of......🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

America 🇺🇸 needs a compassionate intellect after all the self-centered greedy basTards and idiots we've experienced 🤮 Cornel West wins either way it goes 😅the more he talks 😂the fact he's sharing America's trash history on social media outside mass media is absolutely fantastic 👏 all the world 🌎 will hear the truth about the state of affairs and discover the predicament of its citizenry 😒

Vote Dr Cornel West for president of the United States in 2024 the president for truth, justice and love

Imagine and make happen, Intelligence, kind soul, brave heart brother of us all to be the helm of ship in need of a navigator.. Forget democracy, forget the environment, forget peace if we don't get this right. Wake the zombies up now, all hands on deck. Corporate captured, jury rigged and overwhelmed government is only maintained by the MSM propagenda machine and the might of the printing press and our taxed labor. ShakeUp XR