I can remember the beginning of every Zizek sentence, but never the end

I'm not talking shit but the man who did the sound deserves a fucking medal for taking the hiss out of all of Slavoj's S's. Normally I have to turn him down and use subtitles as a backup but you did it man. You fucking landed on the moon.

This man is constantly like 5 to 10 years ahead of himself, like why do his speeches make more and more sense as time passes

41:32 - "Again, this is my link with Kung Fu Panda" I fucking lost it there!

Right when I was wondering why tf is he talking about Gangnam Style, he brings up Kung Fu Panda.

Zizek wears a suit when he goes to sleep and a pijama when he talks in front of a crowd.

Zizek precisely in pijamas.

Met him the other day. And rarely have I observed a man with a lovelier way around people he was exactly as nuts with everyone talking, posing and signing while Telling jokes. He made me So happy. And of course relating very offensive jokes. So refreshing ❤️❤️❤️

Slavoj historical knowledge is extraordinary. He is a living breathing library, amazing.

Here for my daily cup of coffee without cream.

Oh yes, I've just cleaned my whole apartment to this video

So warm, funny and able to develop keen insights based upon things like his young son making him repeatedly watch Kung Fu panda. Love Zizek. Philosophy shouldn't be completely esoteric, it can be found and applied in the most mundane of every day things.

Zizek was so far ahead of the ironic alt-right movement that appeared four years after this lecture.

Žižek is greatest Philosophers right now, hello from Sarajevo

We're so lucky to be here in the same universe as Slavoj; he makes times like these so much more tolerable.

Two hours of brilliance.

The poets name is Paul Celan. He was a german-speaking jew from Rumania. He is best known for his poem "Todesfuge" (in english "death fugue") where the sentence "der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland" (Death is a master from Germany) comes from.

"Moral absolutes can open up the space of freedom" what a refreshing take

AND SO ON!!!never thought three simple words would make me smile so much

I like how this is before he admitted that he likes Kung Fu Panda.

Zizek with his message - to completely fall into reality - highly reminds me of Alan Watts

This dude is so smart that he's into his third language and is still more profound than I could attempt to be in my first

In relation to his comments on the grey eminence, I am reminded of the account of Richelieu and how he came to match his various emissaries to the tasks he wanted to accomplish. The story is that he would lead his various potential new employees into room with a large table. On the one end of the table were pictures of horrible things. On the other end were pictures of beautiful things. If the person in question went to look at the horrible images, he would not send them on missions that required that the do horrible things. If they went to the end of the table with the beautiful things, he would send them on the missions that required they do horrible things.

I found it. The book is North Korea: Another Country by Bruce Cumings.

I’m surprised that I’m able to follow along,and I’m impressed that he’s made it so that semi literate apes like myself can follow along.

There is no ethnic cleaning without poetry. What a sentence

Žižek is alien! He has forgotten more knowledge than we ever have in my life.

When describing Project X, saying "three nerds decide to organize a party", for some reason my first thought was a political party, lol. I know what the film is about, but I guess hearing it from him made it sound more serious in my head.

Holy shit I love that talk, I've watched it multiple times and every time I get a little deeper. I don't see what point Zizek is getting at, but he does tell an awful lot of jokes.

Slavoj is a genius, always captivating

What a Genius . What a wonderful human being.

"Falling fully into reality and suffering" zizeks buddhist ideology

what an incredible gem of a human being

Se expresa con una claridad magnífica, alucinante y cristalina!

Thank You prof. Zizek for those perspectives.

I love it that he talks about Medea. So few ppl even dare. wow. V good v v good lecture. TY for posting (and i'm not even done watching it all).

it's a pleasure to listen to Zizek.

One of the few online lectures I've finished. Great and profoundly interesting guy

can't believed I missed him doing a lecture a couple years back because I got my thursdays mixed up!

I'm adding this man to my list of professional enigmas. Ofc there's his voice but he has such a way of wording things I've never seen before

Slavoj Zizek is a great entertainer

When this guy talks my mind goes to eternal bliss. :)

This is the best introduction speech I've ever seen given for a speaker.

Thank you Dr Slavoj Zizek, on Reality and Authentiicity, meaning and Buddhism.

This guy is so fascinating to listen to

He has anxiety issues, side effect of his mind jumping all over the place. His talent is a gift and a curse.

ABSOLUTE BRILLIANCE. Ticks n all!

I was mesmerized for complete 1 hour and 53 seconds. Love Žižek ❤️

"Another experience which brought me a lot of hatred in my own country..." on kaže. Zašto, nije mi jasno. A nije prvi put da sam čula da u Sloveniji ima dosta kontroverze oko Žižeka i da ima dosta ljudi koji ga ne odobravaju, ili ga ne vole. I ovaj primjer, da nema pokolja bez poezije je fenomenalan, istina živa. Potrebno je idealizovati i ublažiti strahote koje se čine, stvoriti svojevrsnu psihološku distancu da bi se neke grozne stvari uradile. Ne shvatam, šta je tu sporno, i kome?

Finnally someone who can stand up and admit the human condition as i see it. Evil and beauty in all extremes coinciding in one person. Pity most ppl are scared of this truth

Watching this is the only safe and engaging way I can take in a human being. It keeps me patient and not wanting to kill myself from feeling disinterested and violently incredulous nearly all of the time.

A thousand great ideas or more? I’m really thankful for this talk.

Slavoj Zizek is awesome.

The point in the lecture where he says that throughout poetry it is posible to see a lead into a social movement remained me at this poem that say more or less “ Mexico I believe in you because you smell at tragedy , perhaps because you laughter too much , because you know that the laughter is the cover of a deepest sadness” So this relates also at the point that it was stablished here , that when a society had the capacity to laught at themselves in the self criticism of their politician and social believes is a healthy way to had a valve of pressure that relief that hostility perhaps that could easily fester without this efficient social mechanism .

a calm lesson to the mind.

He makes a lot of good points.

Well that's what life is all about. Living and learning and discovering knew things you do not know. Meeting people outside your normal circle, people with different habits and behaviors and beliefs. People who do and act differently than yourself. I know the middle school child in all of us wants to make fun of anyone who acts weird or does things a little out of the norm. That's life too. I've met a few people with tics and they are not weird in any way, it's just an impulsive behavior.

this is the second talk of Zizek i hear, the first was him vs. Peterson and as a Bavarian iam astounded how often (in a Philosophical Manner) he talks about the 3. Reich, i never thought about it as an Philosophy rattern then an Ideology. i will look into that. Thanks Slavoj

Perfect introduction.

I loved the introduction.

loved hearing his take on wittgenstein

One has to be extra crazy to try to debate this man. Zizek is an absolute madman in terms of gathering information about history, philosophy and human mind. I wonder who would really be able to debate him on a even level? The amount of references he makes, the shier variety of perspectives he unites as a person is, to my standart, unmatches. Please name me any nowadays thinkers that can withstand this. I'm interessted in learning new stuff!

Thank you. Watching from Alaska.

1:06:35 Zizek’s musings on New Age spirituality Nowadays, you could throw in Silicon Valley ayahuasca trips into the mix. Enlightenment for the purpose of increased productivity.

Not sure if this maps in psychoanalitic terms but I always saw a link between 'sentimentality' and extreme distanced 'violence' at least on a socio-cultural level. The excuse for the violence is the inner sentimental nature that values the object of sentimentality over the consequences of a distanced violence, (desensitized or whatever), or maybe a resensitivization of the that inner idealization drives the denial of external responsibility.

Slavoj is like a created ruler on CK3 who has all the intelligence traits but to balance it out has all the madness ones 😂

I'm Glad that you are still studying Slavoj even though you despise him. Ive seen your comments on other videos of his.

Zizek drinking game: Drink every time he says "and so on and so on", tugs on his shirt, or touches his nose.

Nobody: Zizek: ...however, this is my link with Kong fu panda.

he is super duper!

1:11:20 Was impressed that about 8 years ago when this was posted he knew about Darpa's 4th Industrial Revolution goals to alter thought processes and belief systems (basically the entire ego of a person) through altering DNA.

Extraordinary lecture.

This is one of the best presentations of this great European philosopher. As he always confesses, as he did when he came and addressed a forum in Bombay, he is at his very best when discussing theory. In his facile system of referencing, professor Zizek casually brings in the thoughts of such disparate thinkers as Levinas and Lacan quite effortlessly, merging their positions seamlessly into his own presentation.

This was wonderful. The moderator was a jerk at the end, though, with his “this isn’t a democracy” comment. Plus, he looked impatient when Zizek was talking. Nobody should expect short answer from Zizek.

He is pointing out that one can use the concept of the greater good to justify to ones conscience ones own evil actions.

Made some good points. I agree with his idea (can't remember his actual words) that you can believe in something but your brain does it's best to ignore the belief if it doesn't agree with the reality it wants.

*smiles*: It's pretty horrifying

1. One of the most brilliant lectures I have ever heard. 2. The vicious comments, that seem to be trying to outdo one another (in banality) while imagining they have hit their mark, taught me something I needed to face and come to terms with.

pure enjoyment on this side..thank you I am serious too

1:37:32 he finally gets Buddhism right about falling into the world per Kojin Karatani. Buddhism deals with ideology by referring to it as “views”, embraces ideology by modeling it as stages and offers different remedies for each stage until you are able to fall into the world.

On buddhism and magic pills: I agree with Zizek that morality is not a part of achieving enlightenment. Troughout the years I've met many people who took a lot of psychedelic drugs, namely LSD and psylocibin mushrooms, and I've read a lot about historical figures who did so as well. With all of these experiences I can say one thing - achieving an ego death and observing the world through the lens of enlightenment did not switch the moral basis of anyone who took these drugs. What happened to all these people, is that it made them more radical in these moral values. By that i mean that people who were compasionate became compasionate to the point of believing that through giving eveyone these drugs we would achieve world peace, end of poverty and so on. But conservatives were an entirely different story - they were even more dedicated to their ideas. There weren't as many of conservatives who took those drugs as progressives of course, not today (although I've met some, and I can tell you that while not most radical politicaly speaking, they were the most radical in explanations why they were right, and the most sure of it, and actually most coherent), but historically I encourage you to look into Ernst Junger - a wehrmacht officer who invented the term psychonaut, the history of neonazis taking psychedelics and in these days Joe Rogan - a conservative who's known for taking DMT. Ego-death does not ensure you will be a good person. It allows you to reinforce your beliefs with a new argument, and a very strong one at that.

Interesting to note that the same scene from Bhagavad Gita was quoted by J. Robert Oppenheimer (17:00 or so).

Breaking the waves -my favourite

38:39 I love those unexpected observations.

Please can you enable transcripts! A marvellous talk.

35:20 What I hear when he says this is " Don't sacrifice yourself for a higher cause, sacrifice yourself for no reason whatsoever." I'd rather not sacrifice myself at all nor sacrifice anyone to myself. Thank you very much.

Zizek is so pure

Life changing thoughts slavoj

More like Slavoj V-neck hehehe

Yes, he is right. You can be an ABSOLUTELY authentic Nazi, or an authentic rapist, or an authentic murderer. This is jarring because we only experience these people, for the most part, through media. They’re hyper real to the point where if you met one in real life, you might be disappointed. “Why aren’t you acting like Darth Vader?” Or like Michael Meyers or whatever your particular favorite might be

1:29:45 A pearl of truth.

So refreshing

Someone tell this man to watch the work of Ryan Murphy. He always follows the pattern of starting a show with subversive, satirical overtones. Yet over time, his shows always become what they were satirizing, unironically. And the reality is that they were always just that. The irony is a way of trojan horsing cynical viewers into becoming invested in something they think they don't like, but actually do.

I can't believe he just said Medea was his hero. I've been saying this for years. WOOT! Love you, Slavoj.

I know , One KEY for ALL - ALL is ONE Is ALL.. it’s that simple in anything and everything. Applied Transforms ALL

I love this guy cle

To pay a lot of money to watch this old man talk about the movies he has seen - this is the true ideology.

Everything is a joke, until people expect you to laugh at your Mother's death.

It's actually insane his breadth of knowledge l

this is just so legit. i love him