30 minutes in so far and I must say that Zizek has still got it. This is the most lucid, captivating talks I have seen him give since his salad days in the global media spotlight during Occupy. He's drawing a picture of a developing Cyberpunk dystopia: plague, war, death, hunger, new digital technologies of control, new global and human/posthuman forms of consciousness.
30:21 *retroactivity/ we can change the past* “I like the idea of a kind of _unfinished ontology._ The world is not fully here, so with every progress forwards, the meaning-not the facts (when you kill many people it’s a fact)-but the meaning of the past changes. This is where ideology enters.”
@@ButthurtImmigrant If there's one area of Zizek's philosophy that we would probably do well to treat with suspicion, I think it would be his phenomenology of time.
This is one of Zizek's best public appearances. He makes such a beautiful, eloquent leftist case for Ukraine and I'm so glad he calls out Chomsky and Varoufakis's bullshit. Wonderful. Слава Zizek!
I really struggled to catch everything because the sound is bad and the subtitles are out of sync. If you could repost or post the script it would be helpful. I really want to catch all that Slavoj is saying.
isn't his thought (and way of speaking) convoluted enough so that he should grant you at least a decent audio?! the point is that it gives you a terrible headache all the more interesting and important is what he says... but you sometimes don't get that and is left only with the headache; your own audio is good; thank you for doing and uploading this; I wish all and only the best to Ukraine!! Zizek is worth any headache anyways, he is a brilliant thinker;
what is better than free? disposable. this is where one aquires something with the intent of throwing it away. herein is a liberty/freedom from consequence/responsibility where inherent value is defined by ultimate 'doesnt really matter'/'i don't care' -ness whether based on reason, utility or whim. inevitably, this notion of consumeristic freedom regarding things infiltrates and subsumes as a liberator from all domains that require care, consideration & responsibility -- especially social human realtionships or any anti-individual notions such as cooperation, compromise or collective action where 'me' i.e. the individual ' is focus -- from the most intimate relationships ( including the self ) to the political.
@ Petrus, indeed, and perhaps we could bring into play the notion of papañca (proliferation): the wasteland is a wasteland of proliferation: a labyrinthine-proliferative wasteland, a "dark jungle" [as a footnote: I recently browsed through a Yuval Harari book, in which he offers a hasty reading of Buddhism (riddled with the same old mistakes) and merrily moves on without skipping a philosophical beat ]; the dharma is eminently soteriological precisely because it steps out of proliferation (yes, all is ideology, which is incurable samsara)
Great dressing but a bit of a salad-din underneath. Ok with that cos he eschews being landed with celeb thought leadership branding even though in vain. Easy to be a sympathetic listener. Hard thank goodness to be a follower. Fellow traveller does the job .
please, please, please - better sound! Either a 20 EUR mic or just a signal-call or an offline recording send to the channel. Ty though for the interesting content.
It is so nice to see one of the smartest and sharpest socialists of our time recognizing Ukraine's struggle for freedom, and not vaguely supporting the Russian Federation for some dumb reason
Zizek had a brief spell as a top public intellectual. He was published in the New York times, and the Guardian and interviewed and profiled by the MSM. Then they realized that they'd made a mistake; he was never going to be domesticated,. He's an inveterate subversive and a troublemaker. So he was frozen out and more or less ostracized out of his old stomping grounds. RT was one of the few outlets that allowed him to reach a public approaching the size of the ones he commonly addressed only a few years before. RT commonly gave the spotlight to anyone in the West that stirred the pot, that fanned division and discontent, Occupy, BLM, the Green party, rightwong populistas, and yes, Zizek as well. They used these figures because it aligned with their purposes, but none of them were really tools of Russian policy.
@@StephenYuan Yeah I knew that. I also understand why he did it. I just thought it was funny, because normally you dont see him so flustered and struggling to respond. Also I really liked how he apologized. It felt real and something you dont get to see that often
I thought that was absurd. During the Cold War, we didn't censor, except during the worst of McCarthy. RT had some outstanding journalists like Chris Hedges and Abby Martin who were opposed to Putin, and remain so. Hedges' entire RT archive was trashed without warning by TH-cam, in subservience to the neoliberals. To suggest that appearing on RT is some form of collaboration with putinism is a despicable claim.
@@StephenYuan Yeah, because the US is the picture of contentment! If only there were no Russian trolls, there would be no Trump, no racism, no inflation, and OF COURSE no mass shootings.
Non è colpa mia se sono intelligente e sono trascendentale , mi dispiace , la mia autorealizzazione si fonda sullo sviluppo delle potenzialità umane come saggezza, compassione , umiltà e amore per il resto non ho soluzioni .
I really don't understand what kind of (heroic) act he has in mind talking about war in Ukraine. What shall we do differently than what we are already doing? We are already sending weapons. Should we send more powerful weapons? We are imposing sanctions and trade ban. Should make them more thorough? His call for action seems to me a little bit vague
Good question! I'm not exactly sure myself, but I think he's talking about the European Left and that we have to get our shit together, because freedom isn't for free, it comes at a price. And he's talking about Russia because Putin is clearly far right and the Russian propaganda interference in the European media has been staunchly anti-Left, so we need to take this shit seriously and not underestimate Russia as just a counter US hegemonic force.. but yeah, what should we do that's heroic according to him? Still not sure, other than uniting Europe as the Left wing
@@lotoreo The European left should be pro Russian against U.S. hegemony, his point it totally stupid. Being in favor of the genocidal us establishment is idiotic and no one who does it should be considered a leftist. Ukraine has literally killed union members and banned communist parties, everywhere Russia goes communist parties and Soviet imagery gets unbanned. Putin is not “far-right”, he’s a bonapartist who has the backing of the Russian communist party in this conflict. Ukrainians are literally fucking nazis, giving them weapons and support is supporting nazism.
It might appear that weapons are being send, but the process of delivery is very slow and most of the time doesn't get past the usual promises which are being made by various European leaders. Sanctions are being imposed, but it took almost 100 day of brutal war to get to a modest oil embargo. The gas issue is not being solved as well. In the meantime Russia gets enough money to fuel its war effort. And an oil and gas embargo WILL hurt Russia, since Europe is their main market, with little interest from the Asian countries to fill this gap. Furthermore, politically, there's more and more pressure on Ukraine to sign a peace treaty based on Russias demands to stop the war. I think what Slavoj means by the heroic act (he talked a great deal about ideology) is to accept that after the 24th of February the old European Status quo is no longer possible, and therefore we should act in accordance. To imagine a world in which Ukraine wins, and in which we can't be complicit with Kremlin's tendency to determine the conditions on the continent.
@@maxburlone3130 , I think I agree with you. Maybe, when he talks about "mobilizing", he also refers to be ready for the dire consequences that would come out from a complete embargo.
His analysis of Don't look up is not quite on point. They didn't act as if a meteor is not handing for earth, even though the know it; instead, it's that, they are being reassured that it is being handled. The meteor in a way is the Big Other; it is something the people can't fully understand
Diggah, gibt so Leute die sich Zizek geben, seine Ideen nachvollziehen können, seine englische Aussprache checken und noch die miese Qualli des Tons in kauf nehmen über 1,5h. Bruder, was los mit euch? Was eure mission so?
The end of the talk is completely a tragic one: while Ukraine is fighting for the supposed idea of the West, Žižek admits that the very West considers their women to be nothing but meat. And the Russians attacking Ukraine know very well that this western stereotype is nowhere near true...
@@Chorismos Not only that, but a sort of ultrafascism (you are excluded from the kingdom of God, therefore, you are not a "brother", and that means not even human - a traditional concept of dehumanisation, drawn up big), and even a kind of ultramonarchism (this is literally where most of our notions of "kings" come down to us in the west, that is, Europe and the "New World" - it's not that different from some kind of Mongolian monarchy, but there is a ultraheaven, a platonic sky). This is mirrored in the notion of the "golden age" polemos treated as an agon.
I know Mr. Z must have invested a considerable amount of time looking into "Buddhism" (a thoroughly despicable term, at any rate) and I agree with most of his critique of the Mahayana; but "love", universal or otherwise, is not a buddha-dharma notion at all; the concepts at play are metta (friendliness; benevolence) and karuna (compassion), which saccharine "Western Buddhists" have rendered as "loving-kindness" - an utterly obscene compound (one could easily imagine a sort of un-loving-kindness or loving-unkindness, right?); just thought Mr Z should not dispatch the Buddha so readily...it is not only intellectually dishonest - it is just cowardly....his counterparts on the Right do exactly the same because they seem unable to read history without the Bible, etc, etc
Mr. Z has already critiqued this "brotherliness" [and it's precise inversion from within itself], in Christianity, etc. etc., as a feign on "Buddhist" notions which have been westernised: and he's found the appropriate understanding of what is only a translation of something (lovingkindness is a translation of חֶסֶד • [khésed]): which is in the phrase of "Christ being there" between his "flock", "brothers" , what have you. It's homologous with his reading on Western Buddhism as what I typically call (myself, I mean, I've come up with the phrase) 'Earth-Gaia Buddhism'. It's a critique on the overdetermination of these and consumption of these (some might say 'consummation' of) these values of 'compassion' and 'friendliness/benevolence' with the "true" aspect of what is the "golden age" aspect, as such, of Buddhism (exemplified by his reading, most crucially [I'm kidding], of Kung-Fu Panda). So therefore; your critique is summarily noted.
@@CynicalBastard many thanks CynicalBroadcast for taking time to reply - also, I would like to make clear my admiration for Mr Z's work (which has brought humour back into the field of philosophy, if nothing else)
Zizek is all too typical of the Left in its incessant desire to provide the definitions, or redefinitions, of what it deems ideologically legitimate - whether it's love, compassion, justice, enlightenment, and so on. Indeed, some time back, he even stated that since "Communism" as a term had suffered such a complete diminishment, it would need a new term to replace it. Was that intellectually dishonest as well? Time will tell, but it is as good as guaranteed that Buddhism in all its forms will survive any facile opinions of it, even while no such guarantee can be made for ideological constructions of any kind... Buddhism is a supreme vehicle vis-a-vis the temporal wasteland in which ideology appears.
"Pitt’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs will open a new Center for Governance and Markets with $4.2 million in promised Koch funding." "Jennifer and Ilia Murtazashvili, associate professors at GSPIA, are listed as co-directors on the new grant, although Jennifer is listed as the primary center director." Sorry guys. On that don't agree with Mr. Zizek. Stick with Chomsky and Mearsheimer and so on.
What the hell does Koch funding of a school have to do with Zizek? Are you saying that any person anywhere who has even given a talk at a school that recieves donations from powerful people is at fault?? Because I have news for you about Chomsky and Mearsheimer...
for the sake of peace just give him back the eastern-bloc, let's stop this war, and west and east could live side-by-side in reconciliation like in good old times
It's amazing how philosophers constantly avoid the material reality - even the materialistic ones! :D My dear Zizek, your ideas or any other ideas aren't that important at all. Caring for the energy prices first is not immoral - it is essential - come down to earth. Whatever those Russian or Liberal ideologists dream about is peanuts comparing to the capital of the Washington-oligarchs and Kiev-oligarchs and the other capitalistic powers of the world. The oligarchs already have their "internationalen" . When the f will the workers get their, especially when the crazy dreamers such as you continue getting paid by the capitalistic interests and contribute to giving the legitimacy to those who are defending the capitalism and discredit the socialism.
Ukraine would have become a NATO country bringing the war effectively to Russian border, Russia beat them to the punch by bringing war to Ukraine and the United States provoked this event. The great thing about this tragedy is that Russia does not give a rats rear about Zizek´s or anyone else´s opinion, what a disappointment to hear Zizek call Elensky a hero. Clearly Zizek has a grudge against Russia like most east europeans.
Why wouldn't East Europe have a grudge against Russia? They've been screwing our countries ever since WW2 ended. Russia is just a power hungry tyrant that's trying to stay relevant in a world that is changing too fast for them. And because Russia has never been too open to the world like the rest of the world did. The russian peole hate the west because that's what their politics are teaching them. The West did not hate Russia as much as they hated us. But today everyone hates Russia. It's almost impossible for East Europe to survive alone, so they have to accept some form of control from the outside. I'd rather have UK, France and Germany, and so some extent USA, control some of my country, instead of Russia. They have a better understanding of the world and are not trying to actively destroy our countries. That is why a United States of Europe is the greatest thing that can happen today.
If Ukraine became a NATO country there would be no war. Did war happen when Estonia became a NATO country?? Why do you think Ukraine wanted to be in NATO? It was the only way to ensure they would not be invaded. NATO and Russia have 0 interest with being at war with each other, and that is a reason why the US did not want to have Ukraine in the alliance.
hes just a bullshitter now, doesnt even know what hes really talkin bout, did u see him avoiding to give comments on azov battalion? he just shifted to wagner
@@TMinozaJ and accusing slavoj by “real”, which is hilarious, apparently he had no idea slavoj žižek is a PhD professor both on structuralism and german idealism
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30 minutes in so far and I must say that Zizek has still got it. This is the most lucid, captivating talks I have seen him give since his salad days in the global media spotlight during Occupy. He's drawing a picture of a developing Cyberpunk dystopia: plague, war, death, hunger, new digital technologies of control, new global and human/posthuman forms of consciousness.
30:21 *retroactivity/ we can change the past* “I like the idea of a kind of _unfinished ontology._ The world is not fully here, so with every progress forwards, the meaning-not the facts (when you kill many people it’s a fact)-but the meaning of the past changes. This is where ideology enters.”
Nice! Thank you for organizing and moderating the lecture
Somebody please send Zizek an external microphone
and higher internet speeds
I was thinking the same, if somebody is willing to collaborate and make it happen, i'm pretty sure there's a way of organizing it !
Yeah sounds like a bandwidth problem
For REAL
Only took 44 minutes to get round to Peter Sloterdijk
“Only” 😂😂😂
@@ButthurtImmigrant If there's one area of Zizek's philosophy that we would probably do well to treat with suspicion, I think it would be his phenomenology of time.
This is one of Zizek's best public appearances. He makes such a beautiful, eloquent leftist case for Ukraine and I'm so glad he calls out Chomsky and Varoufakis's bullshit. Wonderful. Слава Zizek!
It's not bullshit lmao, it's dissidence. Anyone who is a fan of Zizek should be able to recognize that.
@@wachowski9525 What a ridiculously pretentious thing to say.
Leftist, eurocentric, case for Ukraine. Yes
Freedom is immanent, your own. But Liberties implies a liberator, a great "Other" to whom you must always be grateful.
You know it's gonna be good when Žižek 's first words are "Tha-" *lag*
This was amazing, thank you for this!
Phenomenal lecture. Many thanks!
Thank you.
I really struggled to catch everything because the sound is bad and the subtitles are out of sync. If you could repost or post the script it would be helpful. I really want to catch all that Slavoj is saying.
His communication form fits wonderfully to the mind of the listeners. Like Art.
The joy of slavoj lectures is to continually re listen and never understand the words he's using 😂
If you switch the setting to automatically generated subtitles they're pretty good :-)
you get used to it
It’s not because of how he speaks but the breaking sound
lets collect some money for a good microphone for Slavoj
isn't his thought (and way of speaking) convoluted enough so that he should grant you at least a decent audio?! the point is that it gives you a terrible headache all the more interesting and important is what he says... but you sometimes don't get that and is left only with the headache; your own audio is good; thank you for doing and uploading this; I wish all and only the best to Ukraine!! Zizek is worth any headache anyways, he is a brilliant thinker;
Thank You ...
Enlightening for a secure social life...
Allowed
Amazing! Thanks
He wears better Clothes at Home than in TV Shows
what is better than free? disposable. this is where one aquires something with the intent of throwing it away. herein is a liberty/freedom from consequence/responsibility where inherent value is defined by ultimate 'doesnt really matter'/'i don't care' -ness whether based on reason, utility or whim. inevitably, this notion of consumeristic freedom regarding things infiltrates and subsumes as a liberator from all domains that require care, consideration & responsibility -- especially social human realtionships or any anti-individual notions such as cooperation, compromise or collective action where 'me' i.e. the individual ' is focus -- from the most intimate relationships ( including the self ) to the political.
Žižek if fucking spot on, as always.
Damn uploaded 10 days ago... Now I know what freedom was 10 days ago and not now :((
@ Petrus, indeed, and perhaps we could bring into play the notion of papañca (proliferation): the wasteland is a wasteland of proliferation: a labyrinthine-proliferative wasteland, a "dark jungle" [as a footnote: I recently browsed through a Yuval Harari book, in which he offers a hasty reading of Buddhism (riddled with the same old mistakes) and merrily moves on without skipping a philosophical beat ]; the dharma is eminently soteriological precisely because it steps out of proliferation (yes, all is ideology, which is incurable samsara)
I missed this man so much
Great dressing but a bit of a salad-din underneath. Ok with that cos he eschews being landed with celeb thought leadership branding even though in vain. Easy to be a sympathetic listener. Hard thank goodness to be a follower. Fellow traveller does the job .
Can someone tell me who the American lady is appearing at 1:02:31 and also interviewing him throughout?
please, please, please - better sound! Either a 20 EUR mic or just a signal-call or an offline recording send to the channel. Ty though for the interesting content.
Топ!
Freedom is definitely not Assange today!
It is so nice to see one of the smartest and sharpest socialists of our time recognizing Ukraine's struggle for freedom, and not vaguely supporting the Russian Federation for some dumb reason
Great talk and also interesting questions (I especially liked how he scrambled for words, when you confronted him with his collaboration with RT)
Zizek had a brief spell as a top public intellectual. He was published in the New York times, and the Guardian and interviewed and profiled by the MSM. Then they realized that they'd made a mistake; he was never going to be domesticated,. He's an inveterate subversive and a troublemaker. So he was frozen out and more or less ostracized out of his old stomping grounds.
RT was one of the few outlets that allowed him to reach a public approaching the size of the ones he commonly addressed only a few years before.
RT commonly gave the spotlight to anyone in the West that stirred the pot, that fanned division and discontent, Occupy, BLM, the Green party, rightwong populistas, and yes, Zizek as well. They used these figures because it aligned with their purposes, but none of them were really tools of Russian policy.
@@StephenYuan Yeah I knew that. I also understand why he did it. I just thought it was funny, because normally you dont see him so flustered and struggling to respond. Also I really liked how he apologized. It felt real and something you dont get to see that often
I thought that was absurd. During the Cold War, we didn't censor, except during the worst of McCarthy. RT had some outstanding journalists like Chris Hedges and Abby Martin who were opposed to Putin, and remain so. Hedges' entire RT archive was trashed without warning by TH-cam, in subservience to the neoliberals. To suggest that appearing on RT is some form of collaboration with putinism is a despicable claim.
@@StephenYuan Yeah, because the US is the picture of contentment! If only there were no Russian trolls, there would be no Trump, no racism, no inflation, and OF COURSE no mass shootings.
@@StephenYuan He used to be published by Verso, and was on the editorial board of New Left Review, but was eventually removed for some reason.
3 minutes from the start for the first old soviet joke
Non è colpa mia se sono intelligente e sono trascendentale , mi dispiace , la mia autorealizzazione si fonda sullo sviluppo delle potenzialità umane come saggezza, compassione , umiltà e amore per il resto non ho soluzioni .
Wow! Thanks for such a great speaker!
can anyone please tell me where in bosnia the wagner group is active - according to him - and maybe does anyone have a source for this?
He is not sniffing anymore...wooooow
I’ll watch this very soon but I want to inform the admins of this channel that subs in this video are not synced. Please fix! 🙏🏻
Коментар на підтримку каналу і ідеї. Дякую
Hyperreality...It look like we went back to one hundred years ago
whar happened with subs?
Nice
I really don't understand what kind of (heroic) act he has in mind talking about war in Ukraine. What shall we do differently than what we are already doing? We are already sending weapons. Should we send more powerful weapons? We are imposing sanctions and trade ban. Should make them more thorough? His call for action seems to me a little bit vague
Good question! I'm not exactly sure myself, but I think he's talking about the European Left and that we have to get our shit together, because freedom isn't for free, it comes at a price. And he's talking about Russia because Putin is clearly far right and the Russian propaganda interference in the European media has been staunchly anti-Left, so we need to take this shit seriously and not underestimate Russia as just a counter US hegemonic force..
but yeah, what should we do that's heroic according to him? Still not sure, other than uniting Europe as the Left wing
@@lotoreo The European left should be pro Russian against U.S. hegemony, his point it totally stupid. Being in favor of the genocidal us establishment is idiotic and no one who does it should be considered a leftist. Ukraine has literally killed union members and banned communist parties, everywhere Russia goes communist parties and Soviet imagery gets unbanned. Putin is not “far-right”, he’s a bonapartist who has the backing of the Russian communist party in this conflict. Ukrainians are literally fucking nazis, giving them weapons and support is supporting nazism.
Leftists should stop being pro Ukraine that’s what they should do.
It might appear that weapons are being send, but the process of delivery is very slow and most of the time doesn't get past the usual promises which are being made by various European leaders.
Sanctions are being imposed, but it took almost 100 day of brutal war to get to a modest oil embargo. The gas issue is not being solved as well. In the meantime Russia gets enough money to fuel its war effort. And an oil and gas embargo WILL hurt Russia, since Europe is their main market, with little interest from the Asian countries to fill this gap.
Furthermore, politically, there's more and more pressure on Ukraine to sign a peace treaty based on Russias demands to stop the war.
I think what Slavoj means by the heroic act (he talked a great deal about ideology) is to accept that after the 24th of February the old European Status quo is no longer possible, and therefore we should act in accordance. To imagine a world in which Ukraine wins, and in which we can't be complicit with Kremlin's tendency to determine the conditions on the continent.
@@maxburlone3130 , I think I agree with you. Maybe, when he talks about "mobilizing", he also refers to be ready for the dire consequences that would come out from a complete embargo.
Q:
Isn't Ukraine too much hurt because of its desire for freedom?
A:
Which freedom? The one you sold to Victoria Nuland & co in 2014?
Freedom? Well, it all sucks but it feeds differently. Next
His analysis of Don't look up is not quite on point. They didn't act as if a meteor is not handing for earth, even though the know it; instead, it's that, they are being reassured that it is being handled. The meteor in a way is the Big Other; it is something the people can't fully understand
The pr person of Zizek should really but him a microphone. Terrible audio quality.
subbed
What happened at 41:22?uahuhauhuahuauauauauhuhauhauh
oh god!your twitter account doesn't exist..
Slava Ukraini!
Slava Rossii!
Nazi
1:09:29 yes, there were atempts but only lenin gave this ukraine it's southern parts and only bolsheviks allowed their culture to thrive
1:15:15
She really wanted to rid of him 😂
I don't know if he is spitting facts or not but he is definitely spitting
Wollin - Inverted Totalitarianism
А українською можна перекласти?
Glory?!? Really? Calling for glory???
Diggah, gibt so Leute die sich Zizek geben, seine Ideen nachvollziehen können, seine englische Aussprache checken und noch die miese Qualli des Tons in kauf nehmen über 1,5h. Bruder, was los mit euch? Was eure mission so?
The end of the talk is completely a tragic one: while Ukraine is fighting for the supposed idea of the West, Žižek admits that the very West considers their women to be nothing but meat. And the Russians attacking Ukraine know very well that this western stereotype is nowhere near true...
the usual Zizekian misunderstanding of Buddhism, lovely, lovely
I don't think he misunderstands Buddhism ITSELF but rather criticizes some of the western Buddhists...who use a bastardized version of Buddhism.
Sort of how he argues that Western INTERPRETATIONS of Christanity believes in radical individuality which results in unethical consumption.
@@Chorismos Not only that, but a sort of ultrafascism (you are excluded from the kingdom of God, therefore, you are not a "brother", and that means not even human - a traditional concept of dehumanisation, drawn up big), and even a kind of ultramonarchism (this is literally where most of our notions of "kings" come down to us in the west, that is, Europe and the "New World" - it's not that different from some kind of Mongolian monarchy, but there is a ultraheaven, a platonic sky). This is mirrored in the notion of the "golden age" polemos treated as an agon.
What does it matter anyway just forget about it.
Horrible audio !
I know Mr. Z must have invested a considerable amount of time looking into "Buddhism" (a thoroughly despicable term, at any rate) and I agree with most of his critique of the Mahayana; but "love", universal or otherwise, is not a buddha-dharma notion at all; the concepts at play are metta (friendliness; benevolence) and karuna (compassion), which saccharine "Western Buddhists" have rendered as "loving-kindness" - an utterly obscene compound (one could easily imagine a sort of un-loving-kindness or loving-unkindness, right?); just thought Mr Z should not dispatch the Buddha so readily...it is not only intellectually dishonest - it is just cowardly....his counterparts on the Right do exactly the same because they seem unable to read history without the Bible, etc, etc
Mr. Z has already critiqued this "brotherliness" [and it's precise inversion from within itself], in Christianity, etc. etc., as a feign on "Buddhist" notions which have been westernised: and he's found the appropriate understanding of what is only a translation of something (lovingkindness is a translation of חֶסֶד • [khésed]): which is in the phrase of "Christ being there" between his "flock", "brothers" , what have you. It's homologous with his reading on Western Buddhism as what I typically call (myself, I mean, I've come up with the phrase) 'Earth-Gaia Buddhism'. It's a critique on the overdetermination of these and consumption of these (some might say 'consummation' of) these values of 'compassion' and 'friendliness/benevolence' with the "true" aspect of what is the "golden age" aspect, as such, of Buddhism (exemplified by his reading, most crucially [I'm kidding], of Kung-Fu Panda). So therefore; your critique is summarily noted.
@@CynicalBastard many thanks CynicalBroadcast for taking time to reply - also, I would like to make clear my admiration for Mr Z's work (which has brought humour back into the field of philosophy, if nothing else)
I would bet money that this comment was written by Slavoj on one of his troll accounts haha
Zizek is all too typical of the Left in its incessant desire to provide the definitions, or redefinitions, of what it deems ideologically legitimate - whether it's love, compassion, justice, enlightenment, and so on. Indeed, some time back, he even stated that since "Communism" as a term had suffered such a complete diminishment, it would need a new term to replace it. Was that intellectually dishonest as well? Time will tell, but it is as good as guaranteed that Buddhism in all its forms will survive any facile opinions of it, even while no such guarantee can be made for ideological constructions of any kind... Buddhism is a supreme vehicle vis-a-vis the temporal wasteland in which ideology appears.
either way it doesn't matter, he didn't actually criticise Buddhism itself nor does it matter to his point if it was perceived in that way.
Qs
hu
"Pitt’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs will open a new Center for Governance and Markets with $4.2 million in promised Koch funding." "Jennifer and Ilia Murtazashvili, associate professors at GSPIA, are listed as co-directors on the new grant, although Jennifer is listed as the primary center director." Sorry guys. On that don't agree with Mr. Zizek. Stick with Chomsky and Mearsheimer and so on.
Lol wut
Exactly. Thanks for the accurate information.
Stephen F Cohen was above them all.
What the hell does Koch funding of a school have to do with Zizek? Are you saying that any person anywhere who has even given a talk at a school that recieves donations from powerful people is at fault?? Because I have news for you about Chomsky and Mearsheimer...
for the sake of peace just give him back the eastern-bloc, let's stop this war, and west and east could live side-by-side in reconciliation like in good old times
Good old times when Russia killed anyone who is against communism? They were good in the Western but not Eastern Europe
He needs milk!
It's amazing how philosophers constantly avoid the material reality - even the materialistic ones! :D My dear Zizek, your ideas or any other ideas aren't that important at all. Caring for the energy prices first is not immoral - it is essential - come down to earth. Whatever those Russian or Liberal ideologists dream about is peanuts comparing to the capital of the Washington-oligarchs and Kiev-oligarchs and the other capitalistic powers of the world. The oligarchs already have their "internationalen" .
When the f will the workers get their, especially when the crazy dreamers such as you continue getting paid by the capitalistic interests and contribute to giving the legitimacy to those who are defending the capitalism and discredit the socialism.
he has lost it
he never had it
He lost what he never had - there's no better way to describe the Lacanian lack
Do my moutsch fartsch perturb you? *nasal beatbox*
Ukraine would have become a NATO country bringing the war effectively to Russian border, Russia beat them to the punch by bringing war to Ukraine and the United States provoked this event. The great thing about this tragedy is that Russia does not give a rats rear about Zizek´s or anyone else´s opinion, what a disappointment to hear Zizek call Elensky a hero. Clearly Zizek has a grudge against Russia like most east europeans.
Why wouldn't East Europe have a grudge against Russia? They've been screwing our countries ever since WW2 ended. Russia is just a power hungry tyrant that's trying to stay relevant in a world that is changing too fast for them. And because Russia has never been too open to the world like the rest of the world did. The russian peole hate the west because that's what their politics are teaching them. The West did not hate Russia as much as they hated us. But today everyone hates Russia. It's almost impossible for East Europe to survive alone, so they have to accept some form of control from the outside. I'd rather have UK, France and Germany, and so some extent USA, control some of my country, instead of Russia. They have a better understanding of the world and are not trying to actively destroy our countries. That is why a United States of Europe is the greatest thing that can happen today.
If Ukraine became a NATO country there would be no war. Did war happen when Estonia became a NATO country?? Why do you think Ukraine wanted to be in NATO? It was the only way to ensure they would not be invaded. NATO and Russia have 0 interest with being at war with each other, and that is a reason why the US did not want to have Ukraine in the alliance.
Impressive, that he is both so myopic and obtuse.
Nonsense. He’s not myopic; he’s, in fact, among the most farsighted intellectuals, EVER. Obtuse, perhaps, but only to the gormless.
hes just a bullshitter now, doesnt even know what hes really talkin bout, did u see him avoiding to give comments on azov battalion? he just shifted to wagner
@@TuuguuSMD so because someone doesn’t give you a hot take on every current issue of the day, they must be bullshitting?
@@TMinozaJ and accusing slavoj by “real”, which is hilarious, apparently he had no idea slavoj žižek is a PhD professor both on structuralism and german idealism
@@TuuguuSMD nonsense! He knows precisely what needs to be said, and it often involves neglecting a question that deals with irrelevancies
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the pish about Ukraine Nazis being freedom fighters means not even worth a viewing¬
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