Slavoj Žižek & Ash Sarkar

Slavoj Žižek & Ash Sarkar - In conversation

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Join the rockstar philosopher and revolutionary Slavoj Žižek for a 75th birthday celebration of his life and thought. In conversation with writer and broadcaster Ash Sarkar.
Together they will explore his spiritual as well as philosophical journey, exploring his reflections on and respect for Christian thought. And we’ll hear capture his thoughts on the state of the world and our prospects for the future. What does he think about AI, chatbots, and the other new technologies of our age? Is there hope left for humankind in an age of impending climate catastrophe? And what does quantum theory have to say about dialectical materialism?

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@dt6822 2 ай бұрын

"I noticed with my Jewish friends, none of them believe in God, but God still gave them the land of Israel." - Slavoj Zizek. Long live Diogenes. Thank you Slavoj. You have made my life richer.

@greadion4 2 ай бұрын

I could not say it better.

@Kid_Ikaris 2 ай бұрын

Once you get the way Zizek is playing jester most of the time, his stuff becomes so much less dense and more fun. What a guy. Really. By Zeus.

@dt6822 2 ай бұрын

@@Kid_Ikaris He is very much as Diogenes was, and many of the Cynics

@Kid_Ikaris 2 ай бұрын

@@dt6822 did Diogenese ever write anything down?

@TheBarroomHero321 15 күн бұрын

@@Kid_Ikaris He wrote the Big Beat Manifesto

@martinslesinger1419 2 ай бұрын

Around the 19 minute mark it reminded me of this footnote that appears in a physics text book: "It could be avoided if equations could be written in three-dimensional arrays, but unfortunately publishers are as yet unable to provide such a service. A novelist, or the writer of any work for that matter, will have encountered a similar problem many times. Ideas are linked to one another in complicated patterns but in expressing them one is forced to string them out in a line, sentence by sentence." - Bryce DeWitt

@geoffreynhill2833 2 ай бұрын

The line-by-line method of novelists only needs imaginative readers. That's all. 😉( Or do you want 3-D painters too? ) 🤔( Read my "Green Fire", IngramSpark, geoff nelson hill )🌈🦉

@Len124 2 ай бұрын

That's so weird, I remember reading the exact footnote you're referring to; though I haven't thought about it since I first read it.

@lukedmoss Ай бұрын

Brilliant

@DJK-cq2uy 12 күн бұрын

Big deal. Pfffft hmmmmph 🤪

@carterwelker7782 2 ай бұрын

I was happy to see Ash challenge him on some of his ideas. More to learn in their disagreements with each other rather than other interviewers who have no idea what he’s talking about and just nod along.

@bighomiegayass1917 2 ай бұрын

I will mention Piers Morgan’s name here for no particular reason

@howtoappearincompletely9739 2 ай бұрын

@@bighomiegayass1917 Drawing a parallel, or is there an interview between the two?

@dreamwolfnektovich1944 2 ай бұрын

@@howtoappearincompletely9739 there was an interview recently. Among other things Zizek said he likes monarchy in a Hegelian kind of sense because a monarch should be a representation of the common people of the nation against the technocratic elite. But then he said that we can't do monarchy like the old days so the monarch should be powerless and maybe even determined by some kind of lottery system. And then Piers nodded along not realising Zizek just described a president. The whole interview was like that.

@kooshanjazayeri 2 ай бұрын

the problem is as he said it in 2:02 he don't believe in development

@A1un9ine Ай бұрын

@@dreamwolfnektovich1944 The structure of your comment is so f'ing elite that you don't know who you're describing. Hats off to you Sir!

@Yulenka- Ай бұрын

The interviewer was so good to push back just enough against what Zizek said to keep the interview flowing and make it interesting but don't steal the spotlight. I loved it so much! 👍

@froobly 2 ай бұрын

This is the best discussion/debate with Zizek that I've seen so far. I've never seen someone get him off his talking points like this. Ms. Sarkar knows the anecdotes he's about to tell (because we've all heard them anyway), and has probing follow-up questions to all of them. Usually when you have a high-profile "debate" with another public intellectual, rather than analyze and disagree with his individual points, they just use him as a launching point into one of their own prepared essays, and so it goes back and forth. This is the first time I've really seen him challenged on-stage by an intelligent person.

@citadelo5ricks 2 ай бұрын

It was a fun interchange but instead of making points, she was making arguments that became personal, rather than about ideas. Disappointing. Nonetheless it allowed Zizek to go way off script. Lots to think about! My god he is funny, charming, amazing thinker in so many ways.

@mattyartell9575 2 ай бұрын

@@citadelo5ricksFunny, I read this comment at the exact same time as Zizek called her a "filthy liberal"

@citadelo5ricks 2 ай бұрын

@@mattyartell9575 he truly insults exactly as he said, a sort of endearment and signal of trust and friendship. I love it!

@jeff__w 2 ай бұрын

“This is the best discussion/debate with Zizek that I've seen so far. I've never seen someone get him off his talking points like this.” Very true. It wasn’t a debate, really, anyway-it was, as the title of the video says, a conversation with some “confrontation” (in an intellectual sense) along the way.

@alexverdigris9939 Ай бұрын

Have you seen his discussion with Will Self?

@vodoo6502 2 ай бұрын

Happy Birthday Zizek!!! Thanks for everything! :))

@garymelnyk7910 2 ай бұрын

Nicely said. If you love this man you have a good heart!

@alexanderlopez7659 2 ай бұрын

Shout out to crowd for giving up their Q&A. This was wonderful & enjoyable.

@tehdii 2 ай бұрын

I have the biggest smile when I see for the last 15 years Zizek books on their place, in the library, laying there calmly. It will be sad to see a complete, final set... Let us hope that Zizek will also have his torrent with 99GB of videos with him just like the Hitch has. Old school civility and enlightened vulgarity of his would be a thing that I will long for the most in modern times :(

@w8rh8mmer 2 ай бұрын

He will reach three digits. So many words unspoken yet.

@averayugen7802 2 ай бұрын

@@w8rh8mmeras As long as he doesn't spit. I can't listen to him speaking with the waterworks.

@feqanhacibalayev6426 Ай бұрын

are you reading them?

@tehdii Ай бұрын

@@feqanhacibalayev6426 I have read one whole and many fragments from others. I still need to grab the newest one :) There is only so much hours and I have come back to SF and the amount of authors is killing me :) I try to squeze some Zizek :)

@brutalmop 10 күн бұрын

Hitch?

@tinywanderer8567 2 ай бұрын

Happy birthday Zizek! You mean a lot to us

@garymelnyk7910 2 ай бұрын

Yes! He does.

@IvoMaropo 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely. Without him, I'd actually be proud of myself as a Philosopher. Thanks Ziz!

@NinthSettler 2 ай бұрын

Excellent talk. I will remember the name Ash Sarkar.

@farrider3339 2 ай бұрын

As what ?

@finfan7 2 ай бұрын

She's part of Novara Media, also available here on YT.

@jodawgsup Ай бұрын

@@farrider3339 And for what?

@johnpabraham 2 ай бұрын

Wow ash is stunningly effective. Best interview of Slavoj I have ever heard. Great job!

@atwarwithdust 2 ай бұрын

“I think you do a really good job of saying the opposite thing to what you mean by yourself, and you don't need my help.” - Ash Sarkar to Slavoj Žižek

@fergusdunne8303 2 ай бұрын

Line of the night. A lesson in incision.

@GingerJoberton 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting, she was a good host and interlocutor. Wish we had longer.

@akram4139 2 ай бұрын

How can you hate this man! Happy birthday Slavoj 🌹

@benwinstanleymusic 10 күн бұрын

Incredible interviewing Ash! Hands down best discussion I’ve seen with Zizek

@Pqag 2 ай бұрын

Nice to see zizek challenged like that, a good talk.

@pauljones5066 2 ай бұрын

he's looking well for 75!

@halfrousseau69 2 ай бұрын

total legend, and so on and so on...

@toncicoric6327 2 ай бұрын

Profesor Zizek is always interesting. One of the greatest intellectual of our time.❤❤

@auroraorha 2 ай бұрын

Long live Žižek! Happy birthday! ✊❤

@khalida613 2 ай бұрын

Happy birthday our Slavoj Zizek ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

@howtoappearincompletely9739 2 ай бұрын

This needed to be longer. I feel like they only really got into it around the 43-minute mark.

@aagurrego 2 ай бұрын

We may have only a few years left with this man. May God bless him (in the atheist sense, or whatever, blah blah).

@VYBEKAT 2 ай бұрын

OMG I would DIE to see his interpretation of Percival

@infernoglass_ 2 ай бұрын

He speaks about Wagners Parsifal in a talk on KZfaq called "The Hegelian Wound".

@bertiemarshall3391 2 ай бұрын

I was there and it was grande…

@martinwilliams4318 2 ай бұрын

Great bloke !

@axelsandi 2 ай бұрын

He is in top Form! Happy birthday from your Munich friends

@tomg268 2 ай бұрын

When Zizek talks about his friends, I’m never sure whether he is talking about personal conversations or things he has read.

@Grappapappa 2 ай бұрын

Congratulations! I know we have had many fierce battles, but you know that I still regard you as one of the world's leading intellectuals today.

@howtoappearincompletely9739 2 ай бұрын

Hmm...

@CharlesOwen93 2 ай бұрын

This is a real meeting of the mind.

@RedRosa Ай бұрын

75 years old and doesn't miss a beat!

@James-wy6qu 2 ай бұрын

I like Ash but she flies close to saying that no one prominent can criticise cancel culture because it's always an example of a privileged victim complex. It means no one prominent can criticise it. It also forgets that it's the people who are not prominent who really suffer.

@simonnilsson5356 2 ай бұрын

She seem so intelligent but has somehow (likely due to ego) not been able to free herself from wokeism or slave ideology as seen by her very tired and predictive take on cancel culture. Doesn’t these people see themselves from the outside? How in the world can they see themselves as avant garde?! The twisted thing is that this position will become avant garde within ten years. Then of course, these people’s moral compass will have been recalibrated according to the new moral paradigm and feminine dogma.

@farrider3339 2 ай бұрын

I fully agree to both of You. She is ridiculous and a true pseudo intellectual offering empty phrases only. No space for real thinking. Her brain is mostly concerned with growing hair 😊

@teissemey9918 19 күн бұрын

I interpreted it more as that she were trying hard to be a good host and moderator, giving Slavoj some pushback. Not sure that it's fair to attack her for ego or wokeism on that account.

@johnd2058 2 ай бұрын

Third! Also, happy birthday, Professor!

@maxxone3765 28 күн бұрын

to me this was one of the most beautiful interviews with Slavoj ever...

@lilwater7358 2 ай бұрын

He came into the room, basically called everyone an idiot and left. Love it 😂

@garymelnyk7910 2 ай бұрын

Yep, that’s our man. But I always feel……..he means no harm.

@lilwater7358 2 ай бұрын

@@garymelnyk7910 I think that depends on his position lol

@jeff__w 2 ай бұрын

@@garymelnyk7910 “…he means no harm.” My take is that Slavoj Žižek is stating what is for him an obvious truth and, in that sense, he means no harm.

@JayKumar-hw7ko 2 ай бұрын

Happy Birthday Zizek

@EstelaZutic-tb8ie 2 ай бұрын

Dragi gospod Žižek.Zelo rada vas poslušam.Hvala za vaše intervencije.Bravo. Tole pa kot izziv.Mislim, da se motite, ko pravite, da človek naj ne išče po sebi, ker bo (šele?) takrat butnil v grdoto.Ravno nasprotno, ko se grdega v sebi najmanj zavedamo, je le to najbolj aktivno in destruktivno, menim. Zato je treba biti aktiven tako navznoter (ko res pogledamo grdemu v faco, je tu končno priložnost, da z njim tudi opravimo, prej je ni) IN navzven, v slednjem se strinjava.Če bi vsak sebe moralno malo bolj izzval, bi bil tudi ta svet boljši. Še enkrat hvala!

@danielmartines3859 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@eliasE989 2 ай бұрын

Happy birthday Zizek!

@TheSutov 2 ай бұрын

Well done, Ash Sarkar. Vse najboljše, Slavoj!! It's all in a name.

@dasicdorde6975 Ай бұрын

Živo..thank you my friend and hope to meet you one day

@yungsloth420 2 ай бұрын

Slavoj is so cute in an innocent kind of way!!!😊❤️❤️

@joshtroufield Ай бұрын

youre wrong

@andrewbarzal1650 2 ай бұрын

The chemistry between these two is perfect

@dieguerson 2 ай бұрын

thank you Slavoj and all of you for giving him some love!

@valariemgutierrexa.k.a.map6085 2 ай бұрын

Happy Birthday wishes, Zee! May the Universe "Phil" the day with Y0R heart's highest desire! 🍎 Apple for the teacher! 🍎

@shahlaahy4372 2 ай бұрын

Love deprh of Zizek's morality ! Yes when we are deeply connected we laugh together at jokes about each other...this would be impossible when any deep harbour of prejudice is held.

@LechugaWable 2 ай бұрын

Best Q&A ever 🎉

@howtoappearincompletely9739 2 ай бұрын

No democracy!

@Life_Of_Mine_ 2 ай бұрын

I love you my Slavoj Zizek ❤

@user-nb9nj1wo6d 2 ай бұрын

Happy Birthday. I LOVE u

@blyysm 2 ай бұрын

2024: Žižek speaking about the Grail

@onepartyroule 2 ай бұрын

I seem to remember Slavoj saying he used this tactic with his therapist.

@ElectricityTaster 2 ай бұрын

This is also why he didn't eat any cake. You can't speak with your mouth full of cake.

@rafaelcarvalho3928 2 ай бұрын

Slavoj looking great

@Alex-hu5eg 2 ай бұрын

Happy Bday Slavoj!

@SpaceDolphinPosadist 2 ай бұрын

Happy birthday Legend ♥️🐬

@kf8113 2 ай бұрын

Pretty decent talk, not many new thoughts from Zizek that aren't already mentioned in much greater detail in his latest book (Freedom: A Disease Without Cure) or in prior conversations. Ash had a bit of an itchy trigger finger though, but testing Zizek on grounds of possibly being a self-victimizing 'cancel culture' whiner was at least a productive trial with an ultimately exonerating outcome. For a journalist dedicated to truth, it appears she did not find the truth she may have expected. He handled the pressure well; even the last gesture of humiliation with the cake and birthday music was overridden with Zizek's interminable talking.

@au3014 Ай бұрын

I love this guy.

@marintiamayolanavagarcia6377 Ай бұрын

He is really great!

@bourdieufan7433 2 ай бұрын

big slav playing all the hits

@TheRealNickG 2 ай бұрын

That sexy beast was looking amazing! And the interviewer was nice too!

@onepartyroule 2 ай бұрын

That ending with the cake was so awkward xD I love it.

@TheGinglymus 2 ай бұрын

Why are these things always so short?

@stfnba 10 күн бұрын

"Atheism in Christianity" is actually a book from the famous Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch, published in 1968. Just wonder if there are any links there. The subtitle was "The Religion of the Exodus and the Kingdom" which meant the possibility of socialist 'coming' on earth.

@leedb1 2 ай бұрын

What a duo!

@MegaLozenge Ай бұрын

Zizek looking at his two candles should be a meme format.

@tenseman08 2 ай бұрын

zizek rizzing on ash sarkar was not on my 2024 card

@nnnnsaakadamanas218 2 ай бұрын

Two modern day intellectual archetypes. This conversation is the tipping point

@nnnnsaakadamanas218 2 ай бұрын

Around 30 mins in I found myself thinking: "Intellectually / analytically and especially conversationally speaking, Ash is a real match for Slavoj" - questions were totally incisive and sharp. Him goading you into counter attacking is ultimate sign of respect IMO - he would've rather discoursed with you than go to Q & A. Total credit to Ash's sharpness.

@nnnnsaakadamanas218 2 ай бұрын

Hadn't even gotten to "Fuck them, their Q&A" yet LOL

@Itsleakim 2 ай бұрын

Ash Sarkar is the best interviewer or Slavoj I’ve seen. Her humor and whit works great with him.

@DacianRider 2 ай бұрын

Happy birthday ! *sniff

@SA-ff9uc 2 ай бұрын

Assumed he was about 20 years younger.

@Mdahbar 2 ай бұрын

Ash Sarkaris sooo impressive. So hard to handle Zizek interrupting every fucking time.

@MistThief 15 күн бұрын

from actuarial tables, at 75 one's life expectancy is still about 10 years or so. That's enough to write an opera or two. His brain certainly seems in good condition still and I hope he still has many years left.

@ElectricityTaster 2 ай бұрын

This was the best birthday present for Zizek: to be called a liberal, an elite and a fake victim.

@markantrobus8782 2 ай бұрын

It was not a scientist who questioned the Bohr horse shoe but a young journalist.

@tryharder75 Ай бұрын

Love how Ash knows how to pronounce consonants (judging from her education) but has made a calculated decision to not bother

@hubertussuppenstiefel5590 2 ай бұрын

The man is unique 😅

@garymelnyk7910 2 ай бұрын

Like Blake. Like Emily Dickinson. Like Thelonious Monk. Like Howlin’ Wolf. Rave on Slavoy, rage against the machine.

@LaLasta Ай бұрын

good job ash!

@erminadiegrosse 2 ай бұрын

Žižek kralj!

@czarquetzal8344 2 ай бұрын

The god of high theory.

@nikanikasept 2 ай бұрын

75 A.Ž

@christophedejonge918 2 ай бұрын

What a bastard! He very much resembles my (rather intelligent) father who just passed away last Christmas, who was also very much a marxist. I guess he would have enjoyed a life of/in philosophy. Rather than his government job in VAT regulations for the Netherlands and EU (in the midst of all the Dutch liberal socialists). I like mister Žižek's sense/amount of humour. Just as cynical as my father's.

@coleabrahams9331 2 ай бұрын

So your father is living vicariously through Žižek. Pretty cool.

@pomomxm246 2 ай бұрын

Ash is my hero 🙌

@Hadi.Najjar 2 ай бұрын

zizek watching the candles and wondering what to do is something else 😂

@fireball43 Ай бұрын

I don't know if it's just me, but there's something off with Zizek. Maybe it's just old age.

@guven6350 Ай бұрын

What is off? He is the most wild genius mind out there.

@kassokilleri2ff 2 ай бұрын

As a right wing free market capitalist, Zizek is my favorite filthy commie. I can't believe he is 75! I never would have guessed he was that old.

@totonow6955 2 ай бұрын

When classical economist said free market, they meant free FROM rent. So who is filthy now? Wink.

@kassokilleri2ff 2 ай бұрын

@@totonow6955 Who cares what they think? Free market people aren't based on classical economists.

@Life_Of_Mine_ 2 ай бұрын

Greatest philosopher of all time is Zizek

@Rayhuntter 2 ай бұрын

get help.

@Stereotype23 2 ай бұрын

@@Rayhuntter I think a more reasonable argument would be that he is one of the greatest contemporary philosophers.

@johnd2058 2 ай бұрын

You do you, I say in our time.

@clydechristopher7797 2 ай бұрын

I love Zizek, but I wouldn't glaze that hard. His contribution to with his readings of hegel are Extremely important tho.

@stal5143 2 ай бұрын

Zizek would say it's hegel

@mattd8725 2 ай бұрын

In the west when we see outside countries exploiting fault lines of bigotry and prejudice, we cannot afford to blame the outsider and ignore the fault line. Similarly, when looking at African countries we can see minority groups from the USA exploiting fault lines of bigotry and prejudice, and again we shouldn't allow ourselves to blame the outsider and ignore the fault line. This, I think, is Zizek's point of Hegelian universalism, where we don't put ourselves in the position of the "lords" of Africa.

@ritapompana 2 ай бұрын

As alway, Zizek remains a great intellectual and an exciting theorist without viable solutions to any current problems.

@farrider3339 2 ай бұрын

"Philosophy has to ask the right questions." (Zizek)

@AppearDispairDisappear-xi1gt Ай бұрын

Not true. To think that reality can be treated as a simple problem, like a mathematical problem, is an error that Zizem teaches to correct.

@FG-fc1yz 2 ай бұрын

ab7:10!!! für Dr.: Geld ist nicht ein einfaches Ding, sondern ist das Resultat von unserem Verhalten bzw. IST unser Verhalten, das strukturiert ist durch Fetischismen, Begehren, soziale Strukturen, (Aber-)Glaube etc...

@joeyrufo Ай бұрын

58:23 it's not a Paradox! It's a dialectic!

@FelonyBellend 2 ай бұрын

Happy birthday comrade! ❤️✊

@perkodanny 3 күн бұрын

Slavoj… you’re my boy. But it’s time to shut it down.

@thomasmacmillan 2 ай бұрын

I really like Zizek a lot, but he doesn't half repeat himself. 😅 His anecdotes, I mean. I think I heard basically all of them before from other lectures.

@PetaloudesTouYialou 2 ай бұрын

Yep, time to think about graveyard real estate prices😂

@rauldjvp3053 2 ай бұрын

If you go to a Žižek event and they say there’ll be a Q&A, you should expect there not to be one 😅😂

@axelbruv Ай бұрын

14:31 Well, what did you expect when you agreed to speak with Žižek? You can't interview him like you would a politician, expecting direct answers to your questions.

@rafaelvalseca551 2 ай бұрын

I do belice in bees, humming birds,river,ocean...,but omnipotente & $$$...In Gold we Trust,shit isn't It! Happy new free Palestine. Free Julian Assange. Better future Slavov...