Slavoj Zizek. Materialism and Theology - 2007 1/8



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http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Zizek lecturing about materialism and theology, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and the psychoanalysis of culture and societies. Videolecture focuses on fundamentalism, materialism, theology, atheism, atheists, humanists, humanism, reason, logic, rationality, intelligent design, believe, faith, religion, christian, christianity, islam, fundamentalists, fundamentalism, god, nature, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2007, Slavoj Zizek.
Slavoj Zizek, a Slovenian sociologist, postmodern philosopher, and cultural critic is a professor at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana and at the European Graduate School EGS who uses popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and the theory of Jacques Lacan to explain politics and popular culture. He was born in 1949 in Ljubljana, Slovenia where he lives to this day but he has lectured at universities around the world. He was analysed by Jacques Alain Miller, Jacques Lacan's son in law. His research focuses on Karl Marx, Hegel and Schellingfundamentalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock.
He has published many books and translations in several languages. He is the author of The Sublime Object of Ideology, 1989, Beyond Discourse Analysis (a part in Ernesto Laclau's New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time), London: Verso. 1990, For They Know Not What They Do, London: Verso. 1991, Looking Awry, MIT Press. Enjoy Your Symptom!, Routledge. 1992, Tarrying With the Negative, Durham, New Carolina: Duke University Press. 1993, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan, But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock,1993, The Metastates of Enjoyment,1994, The Indivisible Remainder: Essays on Schelling and Related Matters, 1996, The Abyss of Freedom, University of Michigan Press. 1997, The Plague of Fantasies, Multi-culturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multi-national Capitalism, New Left Review, issue 225 pgs. 28--51, The Ticklish Subject, 1999, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (authored with Judith Butler and Ernesto Laclau), Verso. 2000, The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway, Washington: University of Washington Press. The Fragile Absolute, 2000, Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? 2001, The Fright of Real Tears: Kryzystof Kie
ślowski Between Theory and Post-Theory, British Film Institute (BFI), On Belief, Routledge. Opera's Second Death, Repeating Lenin, Zagreb: Arkzin D.O.O. 2001, Welcome to the Desert of the Real, 2002, Revolution at the Gates: Žižek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings, Organs Without Bodies. 2003, The Pupp
et and the Dwarf, 2003, Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle, 2004, Interrogating the Real, London, Continuum International Publishing Group. 2005, The Universal Exception, London, 2006, Neighbors and Other Monsters (in The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology), Cambridge, Massachusetts: University
of Chicago Press. The Parallax View, How to Read Lacan, New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2007


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So excite to hear ... ( 5 months ago by falstaffswims)
So excite to hear someone like Zizek engaging this. I'd like to force Ludwig Feuerbach down Christopher Hitchens's throat. I'm sure he's never bothered to read him.
I think that ... ( 5 months ago by zweer13)
I think that Descartes was actually talking about, or in the very least was affected by (or misunderstood) the doctrines of the secret societies such as the Jesuits. Such societies are based on hierarchy of deception similar to masons. This I think is reason he asks such an illogical, if you don't know the historical context, question as to whether God will lie. Yet, I cannot decide if Descartes was trying to tell us the truth, or collaborated with the codifiers of power.
He looks like ... ( 4 months ago by dildopsychologist)
He looks like stupid, I think he is. His "...object ideology" looks stupid after Barthes's "S/Z" and works after
He still stupid ... ( 4 months ago by dildopsychologist)
He still stupid when he says "too much vulgarity 2day!!!". Really, Zizek? Wasn't it popular allways? What is marxism than?
geez so many people ... ( 4 months ago by iaeruo)
geez so many people are quick to criticize when they have the obscurity of youtube to hide behind. im not in complete agreement with any philosophy, but i do humble myself towards the intellecutal rigor it takes!
go back to eating mcdonalds and watching television, most of us are Lyotard's consumer of knowledge, where knowledge is a matter for tv games.
geez so many people ... ( 4 months ago by iaeruo)
geez so many people are quick to criticize when they have the obscurity of youtube to hide behind. im not in complete agreement with any philosophy, but i do humble myself towards the intellecutal rigor it takes!
go back to eating mcdonalds and watching television, most of us are Lyotard's consumer of knowledge, where knowledge is a matter for tv games.
When he says " ... ( 3 months ago by zomailver1)
When he says "vulgar" at the beginning this is intellectual elitism. Hitchens, Dawkins et al may be vulgar in how they promote their names or the arguments they put forward (some inane). But describing them as vulgar says more about Zizek. Do you have to be a philosopher to not be vulgar? It is elitism and Zizek is on the surface scratching the surface.
Anything to avoid ... ( 3 months ago by dingorex)
Anything to avoid Jesus. A whole life avoiding God and human spirituality. What a waste.
Is that all you're ... ( 3 months ago by DaimonTheFallen)
Is that all you're getting from his lecture? The fact that he's an atheist and you quickly dismiss anything he has to say? Anything to avoid critical thought, what a waste.
What I like about ... ( 3 months ago by Altheiaih)
What I like about Zizek is that he speaks in simple and well structures English everyone is able understand, because usually philosophers use complicated words and complicated metaphors we people by and large don't grasp...
hell yeah ( 3 months ago by mrfatd)
hell yeah
yeah, i think you ... ( 3 months ago by mrfatd)
yeah, i think you have a good point, calling them vulgar doesnt really mean anything
Etymologically ... ( 3 months ago by jmcgeoug)
Etymologically vulgar means common; Hitch, Dawkins, et al consistently appeal to common sense. It is not enough to simply (i.e. vulgarly) oppose religion. True atheism refuses the very choice between belief and non-belief. Rather than appeal to the common, Z presses upon the need to think the exceptional or uncommon without transcendence or shared finitude, while exposing the actual complicity of religion and rationality. Plus: ever hear Hitchens tell a joke? Dude is totally vulgar. ; )
Avoid Jesus? Get ... ( 3 months ago by MicheasTheMighty)
Avoid Jesus? Get off your high horse. You say that as if Jesus' divinity is taken for granted and materialists simply are ignoring it.
Is he an atheist? ... ( 2 months ago by Dennio83)
Is he an atheist? what a waste
dingorex, you will ... ( 2 months ago by icommunism)
dingorex, you will find that Zizek spends his life meeting God and human spirituality head on. Christianity is no simple matter, philosophers (christian and otherwise) have attempted the whole of the thing for centuries in varied capacities. Spirituality is an ongoing issue, argue it or sit aside. or maybe try not telling Zizek or even God what they believe.
haha to people ... ( 2 months ago by 0neironaut)
haha to people complaining about his atheism, "what a waste"... etc. Doesn't it bother you that, though he is an Atheist, he can speak of theology with such force? even your dear Pope doesn't stand a chance!
not sure how anyone ... ( 2 months ago by solvealways)
not sure how anyone gathered his theological stance from this... this was not a profession of his beliefs
Spiritualily = ... ( 1 month ago by code933k)
Spiritualily = Culture. Check t your historical backgrounds please.
code933k: Most ... ( 1 month ago by WolYou)
code933k: Most cultures are based on materialistic world views. People band together and form cultures to form a stronger entity, helping each individual with materialistic issues like i.e. survival. If there is enough spare time they take care of spirituality. Stating that "culture = spirituality" is like stating that "rain = umbrella".
Reason and faith ... ( 1 month ago by WolYou)
Reason and faith can never come together. Those are diametrical views.
That word 'vulgar' ... ( 1 month ago by timmythetoolshed)
That word 'vulgar' has many layers of meaning and I would say it is not indicative of any condescension towards those personages on the part of slavoj zizek...
interesting! ( 2 weeks ago by arbereagle666)
interesting!
Charitably, the ... ( 5 days ago by Jamesbharris2)
Charitably, the guy's got a cold: uncharitably, he's coked up to the nostrils.



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