Slavoj Žižek on His Stubborn Attachment to Communism | Conversations with Tyler

This bonus episode features audio from the Holberg Debate (www.uib.no/en/udir/131536/201...) in Bergen, Norway between Tyler and Slavoj Žižek held on December 7, 2019. They discuss the reasons Slavoj (still) considers himself a Communist, why he calls The Handmaid’s Tale “nostalgia for the present,” what he likes about Greta Thunberg, what Marx got right about the commodification of beliefs, his concerns about ecology and surveillance in communist states like China today, the reasons academia should maintain its ‘useless character,’ his beginnings as a Heideggerian, why he is distrustful of liberal optimism, the “Fukuyama dilemma” we face, the importance of “empty manners,” and more.
Transcript and links: conversationswithtyler.com/ep...
Recorded December 7th, 2019
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[@vaughncollins1386]

I could listen to Slavoj all day, what a compelling and intelligent guy.

[@nifarious]

I've no idea how someone can read half of Zizek's work and not get his stance on Communism and Capitalism/Democracy.

[@BrianMedinaOfficial]

Oh, Tyler Cowen. Asking the same "gotcha," predictable question over, and over again.
Slavoj answered it clearly, multiple times, and he still doesn't get it. How annoying.

[@christianlesniak]

This *Tyler, the Debator* guy is really obnoxious.

[@totonow6955]

Tyler Cowen ignores what Zizek politely tells him, that he prefers communism over fascism. I wonder if Mr. Cowen ever even stopped to think that Zizek may not see his "freedom capitalism" as being so very free. No, ofcourse not.

[@madeline6663]

zizek is very polite...

[@sedeslav]

I've learned so much from Žižek, But it always remained unclear to me why he persistently avoids Nietzsche (although he constantly mentions Hegel Marx and even Engels from that times...) I also find it interesting what he thinks about Wittgenstein. He often refers to the Holocaust, but never mentions the Armenian genocide, Holodomor in Ukraine or the pogroms of Jews in Eastern Europe before fascism. And so on and so on...

[@DJWESG1]

'You have nothing to lose but your nostalgic pickles' 😅

[@maxheadrom3088]

What the hell Mr. Tyles has against Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Aram Khachaturian???

[@maxheadrom3088]

1.5 billion people! Why can't we all live in Luxembourg.

[@kaimarmalade9660]

22:11 guy is Stafford Beer

[@Booogieman]

I thought it was a new episode.

[@psychologicalsuccess3476]

God, attacking him over an aesthetic humour, that's it, that is humour might be 'bad', it's bad as in that this guy didn't think any of the humour were jokes.

[@fikriyazc4305]

Not a communist even in his words, but a court jester for the established order.

[@ulises6442]

k but a tree plantation is not a forest

[@Nate_Tan]

46:45
Zizek: "Why do you call it right wing humor, it's the humor of my youth my God!"
Cowen: "Yes thank you."
My God indeed

[@everybodyhadtopayandpay8]

painful stuff...

[@user96384]

NOW THAT I'VE JUST READ THE TITLE, I'M SURE IT IS A RESULT TOO OF COWLEN'S PRETENTIOUSNESS

[@alexander63736]

annoying host

[@MomentsGap]

What a rude interviewer

[@user96384]

TAWAIN IS JUST A WORD WHICH DISTINGUISHES CHINESE PEOPLE WHO THINK DIFFERENTLY; CHINA AND TAWAIN ARE CHINA.

[@DJWESG1]

Han Chinese? Or another sort of Chinese?