Explained: I Would Prefer Not To
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3 ай бұрын“I would prefer not to” has become Slavoj Žižek’s unofficial slogan. The n this video I try to explain it’s importance for his philosophical thinking.
Thanks for watching,
Julian
#zizek #slavojzizek #philosophy
@julianphilosophy 3 ай бұрын
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@onepartyroule 3 ай бұрын
It works as long as the question isn't "which knot would you prefer, 1 or 2?"
@davidsanjenis2778 2 ай бұрын
I would prefer knot 3
@custos3249 2 ай бұрын
Or isn't "how many would ya like?"
@blyysm 3 ай бұрын
"I would prefer not to" as a strategy for retaining potentiality/possibility. This is a way of keeping the space open for some distant and anticipated event in the future, which is denied in every symbolic order.
@teleologist 2 ай бұрын
"Freedom should never be about a choice between things, but about being able to change the horizon or platform such choice is based." This is exactly the argument that David Deutsch advances in The Beginning of Infinity.
@aravindappat 3 ай бұрын
I love this new shorter video format on this channel. Thank you!
@Lonesurvivor256 3 ай бұрын
Yes!! I’m pretty new to philosophy, I know just enough to get in trouble. 😂. But the short ones i sometimes watch twice to make sure it sinks in! Thanks Julian. Grateful for your content!
@marcovini4590 3 ай бұрын
This actually blew my fucking mind bro
@littlesigh 2 ай бұрын
I would prefer not to was exactly my reasoning for stopping my 43 year long working history and retiring. Now I find myself exactly in that arena of the undead. And it is both invigorating and perplexing.
@tehdii 3 ай бұрын
This particular problem of living between the gaps is so interesting for me. If there is more to say about it please maybe make in the future another video:) Thank you for your positive attitude :)
@joseanibalmartinez 3 ай бұрын
Thanks ! Finally I sort of understand this concept
@Air36874 3 ай бұрын
Excellent - spot on. 😎
@soaked189 2 ай бұрын
Thank you that was increable
@wassertrager6555 14 күн бұрын
The German term "Geziefer" was originally a word for "sacrificial animal", and today it is found almost exclusively in the Bible. "Ungeziefer" were all animals that were not considered sacrificial animals, which then became a term for vermin, disgusting animals, undesirable animals (usally Insects). Well, I found that out on Wikipedia, I thought it might be interesting...at least if you want to interpret Kafka (I prefer to let him sink in). Great explanation Julian, thank you for your work, sorry, "unwork". ;-)
@stephan137 3 ай бұрын
Did you private all your previous video's? I'm missing that incredibly inspiring new years video you made a few months ago
@korpen2858 3 ай бұрын
Yes he did.
@stephan137 3 ай бұрын
@@korpen2858 weird move
@adambranch8692 3 ай бұрын
When I decided not to go down a certain career path in 2004 as an undergrad I summed up my argument (after refusing what seemed given) as; "I beg to differ".
@grosbeak6130 3 ай бұрын
This is the "non-ordinary reality" of Carlos Castaneda.
@Tsuferman 3 ай бұрын
Is this slogan also related to Herbert Marcuse's "Great Refusal"? I mean, does Marcuse also make this move of stepping outside the current symbolic order, or is he more about the usual forms of resistance? Thanks.
@juvenalhahne7750 2 ай бұрын
Boa pergunta! Espero que venha uma resposta. Marcuse, pelo que me lembro, falava de uma liberdade não de negação do que era mas de afimacao para o que poderia ser? Se o autor do vídeo pudesse dizer que sim ou não estaria clareando a mente obscura de Zizek.
@warmedtoaster 2 ай бұрын
This slogan is why I love critical theory!
@rossawilson01 3 ай бұрын
So lean into alienation.
@MinecraftAddict991 3 ай бұрын
I think that's a really ideological way of looking at the act of seeing past ideology, lol. It's sometimes nice just to equip yourself with tools to increase your own self-awareness and situational awareness, even if you're not gonna necessarily do anything about it in most situations.
@adambranch8692 3 ай бұрын
Temporarily, you eventually settle inevitably
@twistedbydsign99 2 ай бұрын
I want to get it, but I still don't. What is the crack the employee falls into when he says I would prefer not to do it to his boss? Is it because he is refusing to say I will or I will not and has somehow escaped the order?
@o0blizZzard0o 3 ай бұрын
bro got a Tech Deck for eastern?...sick
@cheech23911 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for the video. Its always nice to see someone be able to make a complicated philosophical concept seem so simple. But i hope you can help answer my question of how do you take it one step further? You cant imo live your whole life at a critical distance, you eventually have to create something that consists of a way of living. Affirmation of a non predicate cant be a way to organize an entire population. And when i look at Zizek he clearly has beliefs that align with the Left, and push towards emancipation. At what point do you articulate these views and wouldnt it contradict being at a critical distance from all views that he wishes to express? To go further, the right also is in the position of being at a critical distance from the 'liberal elites' and now hold the counter in society for so many people. But the Left would say this is wrong...so after a certain point you have to say yes I would prefer too...the goal of the philosopher is to arrive at this point, not always occupying a gap, is it not?
@juvenalhahne7750 2 ай бұрын
Acho que você colocou bem as perguntas consequentes a afirmação inicial do vídeo de que a do filósofo é ser do contra a do " significante mestre". E daí? Vamos ficar sempre na do " preferiria que não fosse assim"? Caindo na real: as coisas foram sempre assim e o assim cabe inteiro dentro do signicante mestre? Pro Zizek ele é o capitalismo? Vemos ele as voltas com as questões do feminismo, LGBT... etc., todas como denúncias da estreiteza da esquerda
@DJWESG1 3 ай бұрын
I broke the rules.. i took both pills, in copius amounts. I suspect there something in the water.
@11-AisexualsforGod-11 3 ай бұрын
Outer circle containing the ying and yang ☯️ The master ring
@Suyanto231 3 ай бұрын
If you want to do it, then "I would prefer to do it" ?
@zoomer619 3 ай бұрын
To be or not to be.
@conforzo 3 ай бұрын
What the hell is an non-organic apple?
@MegaLozenge Ай бұрын
Artificial and natural is a false binary, or at least something that requires a "I would prefer not to."
@custos3249 2 ай бұрын
There's a reason why this video feels like art history class and instruction on "proper" interpretation. I'd find it, but I'd prefer not to.
@biggels123 2 ай бұрын
are you unproblematic because if so you are my idol now bro
@elenabalyberdina2393 20 күн бұрын
Julian, speak louder pls
@andrebarbosa224 2 ай бұрын
Zizek recently made some very racist statements calling Russians "worse than Arabs". So there's that to consider.
@diegesisfreak 2 ай бұрын
he said of Putin and his supporters that they are no less religiously fanatical than Arab religious fanatics. race isn't even being discussed, genius.
@MH-ln6pv 2 ай бұрын
@@diegesisfreak Thanks for the clarification