Slavoj Žižek - The Spectators Malevolent Neutrality
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- Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher and Psychoanalyst from Ljubljana. His
lecture on the specific roles of viewers and doers is entitled "The
Spectator´s Malevolent Neutrality" and was held on June 8, 2004 during
the Theaterformen festival in Brunswick (DE)
because of him I start to read Lacan, Derrida, Adorno.....:)
All what is said here in this monologue is absolutely right, it became clear for many although not talked about often from the fifties onward about this duplicity and censorship working at all levels of what Slavoj Zizek describes as décaféin coffee. As an artist all my life l have seen such phenomena in the art world. The best works of guifted artists is never going public, only the decaf coffee goes public. The best goes in private collections, never the public ones. We are a long way to be free thinking human beings, where ever you set your eyes you see humans in chains, if you don’t you are blind and lobotomised.
This is one of the best lectures from Zizek i've ever seen, this is good stuff
this may be the most focused Zizek lecture I've seen yet
One of the most profound lectures on youtube
starts at - 6:46
thank you
Thank you
thank you
Of course all people are unique; but Zizek is uniquely unique - like few of us!
this just blew my mind
I have my Chemistry exam but first I want to listen to this lecture.
glad to see this finally back on youtube.
This is great.
"This gaze is the gaze for which appearances have to be maintained is the same as the gaze which projects dirty meanings." Great insight, that is. "Reality is for those who cannot stand theatre acting. Fantasy is closer to the Real - in the opposition between fantasy and reality, the Real is on the side of fantasy, which is why, I think, we need theatre."
👌yes. Later years Zizek put it like : 'The illusion is The Real." There is no other untouched, our senses escaping Real. By that he also wiped the beyond and transcendental from the table. Which I personally find spot on 🎯 and very much liberating. I can stay the way I am. Stupid, deluded, just a monade wiggling around.
6:45 to skip the spiel
his talks usually have good titles but i think for purely superficial reasons this one may be my favourite yet
As for where it comes from: the ideologies always stage themselves before the gaze of a Big Other - they are always for someone watching. In Lacan's formulation, the Big Other is inherent within language as the ultimate and final destination of linguistic utterances: if you will, it is the kind of massive, universe-sized, all-time totality of language and thought themselves. May sound strange, seeing as Zizek disagrees with it, but read "Anti Oedipus," subbing Big Other for Despotic Signifier
@wesnfred He is talking about Otto Weininger, and i think the book in question would be "Sex and Character: An Investigation Of Fundamental Principles".
Nobody noticed that the video stops too early?
There's something missing at the end...
Zizek saying “ for exemple l am going to give you an exemple” starting like that l have to listen even more carefully what follows to make sure l understand if he talks about the exemple of the exemple or simply the exemple itself. You cannot listen casually Zizek, you miss the bus if you do, and probably the next one as well.
ahahah true - following his style of speech with all the tangents, examples, illustrations, etc requires full attention but is usually rewarding
do you have the continuation?
Those nervous tics are what make Zizek Zizek.
To be highly reductive in such a modular talk, would the following formula be useful for applying the ideas of this talk?:
"farce protects belief"
@jamesbubbastewartjr Yes, He use to say that the duty of the philosophy is to redefine problems, there are not only wrong answers but also wrong questions I totally agree with that, my experience shows me that many times great part of the problem, or sometimes even the whole problem (in that case the only problem would be the definition of a problem who doesn't exist) is the way we perceive it. Yes, is like the first step is to see things properly, as they really are.
He used it as an stimulous who helped him to achieve a certain state of well being.He also made some scientific approach to the use of cocaine on medical aspects such as local anestesia on the eye nerve.But we have to consider that in that time the use of this substance wasn't illegal and they (scientifics) where about to discover the addiction problems this particular substance causes.After the substance was prooved to cause addiction Freud stoped using it and xperimenting.(one friend died tho)
and what is your conclusion about those guys?, i'm thinking of reading for Lacan
53:32 can someone explain and or elaborate on this example? thank you
Can anybody tell me what book are they all referring to at the beginning of the lecture? (I am no German speaker, unfortunately). Thnaks in advance !
Also, does anyone know who Robert Fahler the Austrian philosopher Zizek refers to at the end may be? I don't seem to be getting a reading of him on Google.
thanks
in which of his books Zizek writes bout these subjects? about the gaze, thanks
He's a psychoanalyst, too? Amazing.
not a practising one - he draws from psychoanalysis very heavily though
Which book is the interviewer referring to while introducing Zizek? I can hear organs without Bodies said but I'm not sure if that is the same one which is referred to once Slavoj resumes.
im very modest, im the best at being modest, nobody is better at being modest than me.
where can i find this short story after casablanca
what does he say in german at the start? Is his German good?
Thx
@jozeer88 why? even though his accent is strong, his English (and most importantly his thinking) is really clear
My body knows they have their intentions and means
i don't have time to develop it now...:p.. only a 2 hour lecture
Adorno is german Philosopher from Frankfurt school and he is good. He was opponent to faschism and nacism. Lacan is psychoanalytic and he is crucial for understanding mechanisms of Žižek's aproach to any subjects or theme. Žižek is also faithful Hegelian. But Derrida have very bad place on a Žižek's thinkers list! :)
Thanks a lot, nice introduction, I will start step by step, I'm new in the field.. I study economics, but these days i'm having an interest on the social darwinism, now i'm stuck with zizek.
:D No he is like that always, naturally (but the first time I saw him I've thought the same)
This came up when I searched for tips on golf technique, confirming that Zizek is everywhere and all-seeing.
I was drinking a decaf coffee as I watched this....
@Paseosinperro I think you're right, but if the goal is to be free from these things, the first step would necessarily have to be awareness of the nature/existence of the problem/issue. I dont think zizek has the answers, but he at least sheds some light on the nature of the problems, more than anyone I have ever known.
His thing about marijuana being decaffienated opium is very true.
don't wanna crash the party, but what's the book that they mention in the beginning? in which the author says "Women doesn't exist"?
The philosopher Zizek is a teacher of such power and passion . . . achhhh, does this mean I have to start reading Lacan, who I never heard of till last week on another Mr Z video? Do I have the stamina to walk the path of the Real Thinker? I guess issue-toughened intellectuals have to learn pacing. Thanks for reading the whines of some proletarian auto-didact! :o)
It's in Adelaide
1. 1:37:45 - 1:43:00 feel the same way about love expressions
2. 1:57:10 ha-ha-ha
nice... but cut at the end...
hahahahaha... Indeed!!! To his relatives, familiars, co-workers, etc, etc.
what is Zizek doing if not just describing things which affect us but we never think about? Is like if, when we understand how things are, we are free from them. Curious
Well, I could brush up on my Hitchcock, too, I suppose. Thanks, logotrix. I was jolted, BTW, to watch the recent short video of Chomsky giving his opinion of Zizek. Quite the put-down! Brilliant minds are not always harmonious, of course.
Well I have some negative opinions of both of them even though they both make excellent points at times.
Ants taught me numbers
for a minute i thought i have to search for subs.
"Sex and Character" by Otto Weininger
I think it's a an involuntary tick.
Gruutsviik
Yep
If you nicht sprechen sie Deutsch, (or you just don't speak German) skip to 7:15 to get to the English Start, (Or, if you prefer, die Englisch Start) [I don't speak German, sorry that I suck at your language.]
7:15 to also skip the German.
I get it.
I think light
Weird, I understood Slavoj's German much better than the local's.
They speak German in Slovenia?
This was filmed in a Theaterfestival in Germany...
Kids go missing on them hols
No! :) He don't even smoke . His neuroses become part of his performances.
@RolandOnTheRoad no success. its weird, because Josefina Ayerza recently held a talk on the same topic..... and there is no direct reference as to where it comes from, as if it's obvious, I feel stupid
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A merry car
Sick sad world
It's red all over
And then we all become narcissists in that case as theatre satisfys desire..displaces what may be truth, for the theatre of the real, and when there is a rupture in the game play, when we dont read our lines according to the script , what then..we become murderers , acting out assassinations day to day with stroke of pen and reinforcement of learning our lines......:)
I don't really get the ambigous gaze stuff
Well! La-ti-da... ;P
Betting on Phoenix feathers?
1:31:25 Love is disgusting!
The biggest number is...
@LuisManuelLealDias Hi, I don't follow your comment, why humble?
ThunderCock SoulPuncher
To everyone who has studied it, it should be clear that psychoanalysis is methodologically philosophy over science (there is a reason psychology faculties at large don't teach it for gods sake) but there is a reason to use philosophy... as soon as you tie yourself to empiricism or hard natural sciences, you basically have no points that can well deal with notions of reason, will, choice, justice, morality, etc.
he has nervous ticks
Some of the narcissists would be better on stage than in the theatre of politics, safer for all the rest of us, that is! The stage can portray ugly desires, but also beautiful desires from the heart and the soul, of course, for better worlds and happier endings, and it may be hoped that the stage brings some relief for the shocked survivors of the many violences.
"regress"
I'm cahartic
Not pill but pyra..
didn't know he spoke german
And, according to Murphy's law, it is in german.
well his german is really good actually, but of course he has his special accent like in english.
he said that although he can understand german, his german is not good enough for improvising because his thoughts would simplify in idiotic tautologies.
Revolt
Rapunzel
it leads to double past tense grammar errors, sorry had to say it
I will black out n wake up with
@100FingeredMonkey all decent philosophers speak German
6:44
I should be ?
Pillars of salt on mirrors under son?
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