Slavoj Žižek on His Stubborn Attachment to Communism

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

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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 5 ай бұрын

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

@nifarious 6 ай бұрын

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

@BrianMedinaOfficial 6 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

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

@madeline6663 6 ай бұрын

zizek is very polite...

@totonow6955 6 ай бұрын

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.

@sedeslav Ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

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

@maxheadrom3088 3 ай бұрын

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

@kaimarmalade9660 6 ай бұрын

22:11 guy is Stafford Beer

@Booogieman 5 ай бұрын

I thought it was a new episode.

@maxheadrom3088 3 ай бұрын

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

@psychologicalsuccess3476 3 ай бұрын

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.