Slavoj Zizek. Materialism and Theology - 2007 3/8
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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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| thanx 4 posting ( 1 year ago by abovethewaves) |
| thanx 4 posting |
| can you help me ... ( 1 year ago by hi0u91e9) |
| can you help me with the bit where he uses lacan's theory of the non-all. why is modern science's view that there is nothing that cannot be expained by reason- in itself inconsistent and allows for the appreciation of miracles, quantum mechanics and so fourth? is it still to do with the voluntarist theology embraced by descartes- that of a primary and inexplicable will of God? |
| having listened to ... ( 1 year ago by hi0u91e9) |
| having listened to it again i see that zizek was saying the opposite- that mod science has departed from a chesterton position. but i still don't get how mod science overcomes the paradox of a comitment to universal reason and miracles |
| Brilliant critique ... ( 1 year ago by abovethewaves) |
| Brilliant critique of Derridean ontology. Talk about the return of the repressed-Lacan and Hegel turned back on Derrida by way of feminism, very well done, spectral even! |
| Apologies to ... ( 11 months ago by sickuntodeath2) |
| Apologies to abovethewaves. I gave you a thumbs down instead of a thumbs up for you comment |
| I've seen him twice ... ( 8 months ago by justdweezil) |
| I've seen him twice in person... I'm a philosophy student. Zizek speaks in non-sense. He constructs lots of little ideas that are either trivially true or superficially novel into huge, nonsense chains that he touts as coherent hypothesis. If you think you understand Zizek, try paraphrasing or summarizing what he says without simply regurgitating his words. He can't even do it. |
| that's strange, ... ( 8 months ago by richidpraah) |
| that's strange, because i understand perfectly.. and also stranger because i've always had a certain reservation about zizek over his psychology, but his critique of dialectical materialism, and also his surprising (to me) alright understanding of mysticism is why he, to my applauding agreement, wonderfully takes on the truly ignorant, vulgar and dangerous "atheist" positions of dawkins, dennett etc. those pop-discourses has nothing to do with actual mystical experience, which appropriates "god" |
| His coherent ... ( 6 months ago by camipco) |
| His coherent hypothesis is that science and religion both point us to the conclusion that the universe isn't a system understandable in full not because either method is limited, but because incompleteness is a fundamental characteristic of the universe. Further the absence of completeness is crucial, because without it (the absence) we are not free (paralyzed by determinism in the case of science, or God's long-view where all suffering is justified in the case of religion). |
| I don't see the ... ( 6 months ago by partofnopart) |
| I don't see the relevance of seeing zizek 'in person' or being a 'philosophy student' to your failure to understand Zizek. Of course your dismissiveness makes sense here since it not only allows you to project your own failures onto him, but it also catalogues the reasoning behind it: your thinking stops short. By no means do I definitively understand zizek (if it even makes sense to frame things in those terms), but his arguments are more than empty gestures. I suggest you try studying. |
| This makes my head ... ( 6 months ago by bushka5) |
| This makes my head hurt! I think I will stick to the music videos |
| 00:50; hilarious. ( 6 months ago by donnca) |
| 00:50; hilarious. |
| Is this criticism ... ( 4 months ago by thisisnothappening2) |
| Is this criticism of Derrida that he totalizes the exceptional? |
| Are you a ... ( 4 months ago by lavverlylad) |
| Are you a philosophy student? You seem to have decided on an orthodox normality by which to measure what everyone else says. You need to shake your kaleidoscope methinks... |
| "incompleteness is ... ( 4 months ago by rootberg) |
| "incompleteness is a fundamental characteristic of the universe." Actually incompleteness is a fundamental characteristic of a formal system rich enough to contain "basic arithmetics", you can't use the concept of incompleteness in such a loose way, it makes no sense. |
| dawkins is a ... ( 4 months ago by mrfatd) |
| dawkins is a scientist, zizek is a postmodernist. postmodernism is just a mystic branch of pseudophilosophy |
| Thanks a lot for ... ( 3 months ago by tim0608011901) |
| Thanks a lot for uploading these |
| don't you mean " ... ( 3 months ago by lunarlodge) |
| don't you mean "pheudopsilosophy?" |
| mrfatd: Zizek is a ... ( 2 months ago by WolYou) |
| mrfatd: Zizek is a scientist. All sciences are directly triggered by philosophy. Philosophy defines the underlying logic of science. Without philosophy we would find ourselves in a world of myths and with no chance to question them. |
| Zizek isn't a ... ( 2 months ago by spinozareagan) |
| Zizek isn't a postmodernist. You and all the rest of the vulgar materialists/petty atheists (Dawkins fan boys) are way out of your element. Dawkins can tell us an awful lot about evolutionary biology. But he can tell us nothing of our Being. |
| Yes, anyone who ... ( 2 months ago by spinozareagan) |
| Yes, anyone who doesn't subscribe to a reductionistic scientism is a mystic and a pseudophilosopher. Right on. Dawkins is, afterall, a scientist, and can tell us so much about evolutionary biology. He is a REAL philosopher! |
| Yes, anyone who ... ( 2 months ago by spinozareagan) |
| Yes, anyone who doesn't subscribe to a reductionistic scientism is a mystic and a pseudophilosopher. Right on. Dawkins is, afterall, a scientist, and can tell us so much about evolutionary biology. He is a REAL philosopher! |
| I am always amazed ... ( 4 days ago by homerthompsonman) |
| I am always amazed at the nonsense this sort of book maggot can generate. It states in the sidebar that this sort of "theorizing" is an entirely circular undertaking: "...he uses popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and the theory of Jacques Lacan to explain politics and popular culture." Not only that, he states at the beginning that he is laying out a theory that takes as its foundation the "inexplicableness of everything". Here's a theory: Kill brain, you die, try to deny. |
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