I saw Slavoj Zizek at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

@@boskopils4153 bruh i dont think he gets it

@@boskopils4153 I don't believe any of this

@@nukepizzaa i think its a copypasta

@@boskopils4153 i dunno why i have to read the whole thing everytime i come across this, but its so funny ahhahah

Fuck

Shit mate

Hey man

zizek does that when he reads jaques lacan ...

I have an addiction

Hahahahahahahahahaha right on :)

That is the one of the best comments I ever read , why it has only 19 likes ?

Hahahahahahahahaha.... I just shit myself... Good thing I was sitting on the toilet...

That's exactly what I thought when I heard that bit. You're spot on.

again at 1:01:22

You think that Finnegan's wake is "intellectual", doesn't every high schooler read it?

What if the laughter that comes from cans were just videos??? 😬

I like how he gestured to the audience to complete the joke by providing canned laughter, but nobody did.

axaxaaxaaxaxax

The fact that this video contains the most moving exegesis of Christianity I’ve read outside of Augustine, an anecdote about cybermice and also this exchange is why I stan Zizek.

So funny

Sooooo.... gay? Men can love men in romantic platonic etc ways.

It took 6 year's but, we got him

@@lifepuddle3036 lol

SPARTANLIFECOACH considering his psychoanalytic background and the tension between conscious and unconscious elements of ideology in his work, I'd say that's a fair comparison.

SPARTANLIFECOACH but isn't it true that, my godt, ideology today IS just a neurosis. even fukuyama is not a fukuyamaist how should i put it

mlonyenioner brilliant

my got!

nice find, thank you for sharing. I am concerned about my parents and the new "wave" of christian movements that is heading (in my opinion) very far from the basic teaching of Christ...leading a new "prophetic movement" that is really dangereous toward the harsh judgement of "God." The final days and so forth. I would even go so far as to say, pretty narcissistic... masked as "false humility." But who am I to judge right? I just had to walk away years ago when I saw the "reality" and refused to make ammends with my own parents in denial (which was submitting to authority that was unaccountable) Talk about. Being humble, loving and non-judgmental. Silence of lambs...

He does know about Girard. In his talk with Jean-Pierre Dupuy (day two, i.e. post-lecture) they talk out Girard's Christianity. Apparently they both agree but Girard, but Girard changed his mind later - so Girard is the only one of the three who doesn't believe Girard.

Unless reading Zizek leads you to reading Hegel.

@@ethanthomas7372 Wait....what changed Girard's mind?

@@Synodalian No idea. They didn't say anything besides that.

@@ethanthomas7372 Girard (who was a personal friend) didn’t “change his mind.” I surmise that they were expecting that Girard’s apparently paratheistic remapping of Christian theology should have resulted in his own atheism (as do most people when they first encounter his thought; as did I). It did not, because he viewed it as a genuine decoding, without presuming that a teleological examination is somehow equivalent to an alternative epistemology. Egotistical, perhaps, but it confirmed for him the social necessity of religion and the social advantage of functioning Christianity specifically. Zizek’s interesting move here is to locate that functional valence between persons rather than within.

Your comment makes me very happy! Of course in a pseudo-intellectual; "I-also-get-it!" kind of sense but this is only a break in the struggle. Keep well!

The most exhausting is his conversation with Cornel West. Not only have they read everything, they can quote from them like rapid fire tennis balls flying out of one of those machines. It's absolutely terrifying. I love how Zizek prefers the minimalistic use of language in Beckett over the blah, blah, blah of Joyce, but has to make people not worry that he's Castro and will talk for 7 hours, which he could do without a 2nd thought. I absolutely love his fascination and openness to every aspect of culture and his liberating humour. He is pure joy.

10 years late but can we just talk about how he absolutely ruined the joke by answering? 😂

​@@upalgangopadhyay7117Agreed.

No, Calvin give stuff like the Man Devil not Rousseau.. Rousseau is all about virtue and happyness, Man Devil is all about vice = virtue

You have to be polite with those who are dead inside.

you're right there I believe the root in those declarations come from his psychoanalitical training,

Its not about what is "real", the point itself is as real as it can be. Its wrong question to the answer to ask if its canon or what prejudice toward the conclusion you might have.