They're all in suits and he showed up looking like he just finished mowing the lawn.

This guy is like my thoughts after 8 coffees when I’m trying to sleep

I like to think this had nothing to do with whatever they were talking about before.

"Sir, this is Wendy's."

Best dressed

He looks like he is photoshopped into that meeting.

omg imagine his lectures if he didn’t use “and so on and so on”, they’d last 3 years

Žižek is the quintessential example of the thin line between genius and madness.

Why does he look like he's a Linux user

He is the only guy around the table who shows any sign of life.

I like your funny words magic man

"Allow me 2, 3 minutes to make this point with ALL AGGRESIVITY" - Slavoj Zizek

You don't need to dress up for the meeting when you are the only reason anyone comes to the meeting

I love his passion

Beautiful ending. Zizek fading out with no sign of stopping and so on and so on

“Thank you Mr. Zizek. The question, however, is what is the purest form of government.”

Okay, the point he is trying to make is subtle and invisible to those unfamiliar with the composers mentioned. It is NOT a tiny history of music, he just mentioned composers he felt were relevant to a certain point he wanted to make. To prove that I understand more or less what he is talking about (where others dared say he was just incoherent), I am going to attempt a translation/paraphrase and you guys correct me wherever I am wrong, mkay? Zizek might be trying to say something akin to the following: "The proof is in the pudding: the art of the geniuses of music is larger than the things they were conscious of. For instance, Wagner was a terrible person, full of prejudice, but his music is full of noble ideas, totally transcends his small personality. Having said this, for my main point, I am going to contradict the view I detected previously in this debate, that Mahler saw everything and started the future. There is something crucial he did not see. The finale of his 5th symphony, where we would expect the climax of the modernism in his art, in fact throws back to romanticism. He did not realize that true modernism would come in the dissolution (by Schoenberg) of the compositional devices that he, Mahler, inventoried." "When I say modernism, I mean musical thought which is radically abstract. This is why I call modernists the more abstract composers in history: Bach with his fugues comes to mind, then romantic composers such as Schumann, who demonstrated great abstract thought in the treatment of musical material that did not originally come from abstract thought (rather from popular sources, folk songs etc. such as Chopin, Grieg, Dvorak etc.). I would place Mozart in the opposite end of the spectrum: the more "spontaneous" composers such as Schubert, composers of songs, would reveal perhaps less abstract musical thought than someone that struggles like Beethoven. When I (Zizek) listen to Schoenberg and Berg, I feel the abstraction is like a reality inside another reality, or perhaps the scene in "The 13th Floor" in which a character goes to the edge of the world and sees where it ceases to exist and physical objects become geometrical lines. In musical modernism of the XX Century (after Schoenberg) the musical material is dissolving in the same way." "It is this abstract dissolution that I do not hear in Mahler, who is really still just expressing the myth of the hero, like a true Romantic."

as a musician I'm very impressed, I didn't expect such deep level of knowledgeable about music and esthetic from a philosopher that usually speaks about society, economics and human behavior.

Two thick things are not letting me understand this 1. His accent 2. My brain

I love that he’s not wearing a suit or even looks generally presentable; that’s some main character shit.

Proof that the clothes do not, in fact, make the man.

“Sir, you’re the janitor”

Mai Gott!

This is the guy at the water cooler in work who gives you a lecture about the inner workings of the big upside down bottle of water and the mechanism it uses for pumping. When all you wanted was a glass of water. Love Zizeks stream of consciousness rants. No-one knew what they were talking about by the end.

I'm studying classical and jazz in college so when I saw this title I was like yeah right but...he's...he's kind of right.

Zizek's thinking (and so on and so on) really fascinates me. But what I love even more is the comments section 😂

The question was "what is your favorite Batman movie?"

i love how it ends with the iconic "and so on and so on"

He jumps from pre-modern music to quantum physics and sci-fi within 3 minutes

He's going to need more than 3 minutes for this theory. A lot more.

I saw my reality dissolving more and more as I watched this. This guy makes you trip without consuming anything but focusing on his train of thought.

Everyone at this table is waiting for security to take him away and they are terrified to leave before that happens

the way the scene looks like from an anime

If you are the only one wearing a suit in the room, you are in charge. But if everyone but you is wearing a suit, then you are Zizek.

I love that in every shared even he speaks in he looks like a guy who was constantly heckling so they decided to bring him up

His tombstone will have written: "Slavoj Zizek and so on and so on"

Had to double-check my playback speed to make sure it wasn't on 2

Me and my gf after walking in late to Philosophy class:

I would love to hear Slavoj’s lecture on music lol

There's seven men on this table, six of them dressed in a sleek black suit, a collared shirt, and a tie. And then there's Zizek.

I have the same theory about The Spice Girls

"I claim" "You know" "And so on, and so on."

These subtitles are something else

This man skips all the way from "pre-modern music" to Bach in like 10 seconds

Love the generated subtitles for this one.

this man started talking about classical music and ended up talking about the matrix im dead

I wonder how Zizek is doing with all these pandemic guidelines.

wow! such passion.

Greatest comedian intellectual of our time, if you permit the premise/claim.

I always wanted to watch this in full but never found the whole conversation, only snippets

I was innocently heckling at his 2 mins of all aggresivity, but at the "13th Floor" I suddenly went silent.

Man, I love this song

Best analogy I've ever heard on what Schoenberg was trying to do with modern music 2:00

The wide shot at 0:11 should be an oil painting

Great T-shirt!

It’s in interesting point and so on and so on.

I turned the subtitles on and was even more confused

Showman.

0:52 "Now, if you'll allow me just 2-3 minutes to make this point with all aggressivity." 0:56-0:59 If I were Tomaž Šalamun, I’d always be happy, I think. I’d dance on the Small Market Square until all hours to a melody no one could place. I’d play Mahler’s Fifth gaily on the accordion.

Nice subtitles

This man is like, amazing, he explained art in 3 mins, epic. (and everything if you think further, we're based on logic although we do not want to think that)

The hero we need but are not ready to except yet.

Alternate title: "Random hobo of slovenian nationality rolls up on a serious emergeny meeting and talks about whatever he came up with last night."

Understandable, he talks so fluently wow

This is one of the best comment sections I've ever seen haha

turn the subtitles on and thank me later, it gets even deeper with the captions on and makes much more sense :P

The only one dressed differently - built differently - in a panel of (what I assume to be) intellectuals. What a GOAT.

My got he is soooo nice

This fellow stresses me out

“We’re discussing the rezoning of the portillos, did you have any comments on that?”

"And so on and so on."

Why are the autogenerated captions Italian lol

Zizek does another sport. Genius

Zizek is absolutely insane

His speech is an example of complete gymnastic.....

The video starts @ 1:09. You're welcome!

The other guys at the table like " we should put a serious face atleast"

is zizek just hegel reincarnated? they look to similar

am i the only who doesn’t understand a word tht he’s saying

Does he discuss this in any books that he has written? I wonder if there is a concise history of music with respect to such analysis?

I heard him and i just hiss now.

I think I can smell slavoj from my spot

Slavoj "But in Reality" Zizek.

The others seem incredibly disinterested in everything he’s saying lol

youtube captions are on point

I absolutely have no idea what just happened

This is what is happening now. We've reached and exceeded our pinnacle. Time to start over "he" says.

How did he not knock the glass of water over.

i need subtitles for zizek talking i literally didn't get anything he said can someone help?

If I were sitting on the panel I would have been like "um... yeah... intresting point."

>"A longer version of the debate can be viewed here" >links to a 12 minute video seriously?

This was just a meeting to open the new bridge.

I truly thought that was Dan Harmon in the banner

Oh god, his favorite composer is Berg, too...

Is the full video of this accessible?

And so on and so forth

thank God it's a mic I thought it was a large glob of food or fluff on the starboard mandible of his beard

Wagner's centerpiece was a strong but lonesome Jew, loved that shit!

This is a specific corner of music from a specific culture grouping of the world. not the history of music

The Z keeping it real as always!