Slavoj Zizek. Materialism and Theology. 2007 1/8

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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 Kieślowski 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 Puppet 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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Komnenos1234: I agree with what you said. If he said something undeniable like "two plus two equals four", snorting all the coke in the world would not make him wrong. It's the same with all things.

RichNeuro: It is already since Kuhn and Lakatos that we know that a "scientific method" is not universal, and the inductivist problem shows, already since Platon, that empiricism is influenced by pre-cognition. Different paradigms are incommensurable, and for human beings and ideologies you cannot have testable indicators as for physics! Empirical logicism is only one way to see things, but already Popper showed the inconsistence of this

g41thomas: this a-hole shacking clown needs a shower and some mannerism.

Brett Sanders: wow, I never realized Zizek has no conception of scientific method or knowledge, dismissing Dennett and Dawkins as vulgar materialists with no attention to scientific theory or method

CommunistWarrior1917: Great point on the new anti-theist atheism and religious fundamentalism. I'm a strong opponent of both.

Schizopantheist: I think youre wrong, or somewhat wrong; but i also wonder about something to the extent that he's still a Lacanian. Isn't there an idea in Lacan that the 'analysand' will, whilst originally idealising the analyst eventually reject them as a source for 'the answer' to their problems, and that this idea will result in a moment of transformative insight? Something like that. So in this view Zizek would deliberately intellectually bewitch an audience and allow for a 'positive' disillusion.

Johanan Raatz: Sorry smug new atheists, but research into Quantum Gravity has knocked both materialism and physicalism out the window: watch?v=4NP4QmrbBww

H Makhdoom: what about to students in general? :-)

nerfmyaccount: Maybe one of you Zizek experts could help me out here, I seem to remember a lecture where it was illustrated that the gospels started out very radical but by the later gospels had been subdued by their cosmopolitan authors. I thought this was a zizek lecture but can't remember, does it ring any bells to anyone?

shivator: you are esooccult

j hu: Actually Zizek is one of the most readable, easily understandable philosophers around. He doesn't try to sound smart; he's very down to earth. And if you are familiar with his work, you would know that much of it is a critique on postmodern relativism. I get the feeling you're the one trying to sound smarter (or, rather, more informed) than you actually are.

s8ist420: : He's not a real "clear" thinker though. In fact, every esoteric and unprovable thing he says is designed for the purposes of making him seem so highly intelligent that you just don't get it. Those who claim to understand him have the benefit of being appearing to be just as clever. The problem is that he's not saying anything. He's just trying to sound subversive while using the postmodern voice.

Ray Slim: Intentions of a founder and this being a reason for dismissal is nothing more than genetic fallacy. That said, creationism is to intelligent design as religion is to apologetics. Furthermore, with the existence of God, it is reasonable that evolutionary processes would have intention even if occurring without divine interference and that distinctly human faculties have further meaning. Thus, with God, evolution is likely to have aim. Philosophy shows the fault of secularism in science.

stillceaser: Actually, if you examine what you've just said, it's irrational.

g4macdad: Debating is GREAT, as long as when we are finished, we can shake hands, give a hug, and go home peacefully. * Darwinism and modern science? There are as many religious scientists as atheists. This is an IRRATIONAL argument. * Assuming that Darwinists are rational and Christians are NOT, is IRRATIONAL. Peace is rational. Zizek's insecurities are OBVIOUS, and indicative of his irrationality.

Justin Osmond: Indeed. I hope my comment helps those looking for a copy of the lecture.

spaceghost1313: what a twat. how do you know what any of us have read. automatically think youre better than everyone, what a nice guy

ILoveRavenc: want me to hold that rock of yours up so you can crawl back under it?

alliant: how cynical of you

egsvideo: the lecture was given in 2007, the book was published in 2009. faculty members generally present and discuss the research they are working on at european graduate school. some of the lectures and seminars can then be found in books and articles.

Justin Osmond: He is reading almost word-for-word from his first essay in "The Monstrosity of Christ" (2009).

howcynicalofme: isn't everything he talks about here obvious stuff that people already know? what's the point of talking about these things?

alleey7: Does that mean, conclusively, that those can not be made public?

FeelOfFriction: This guy needs to work on his presentation skills...dear god...

eotto2001: The thing that makes him easy to listen to as a Marxist is that he is more grounded in Hegel than Marx. Most aren't. If you don't like Marx, listen to him for the Hegel. He is cleaning up the ontological problems in understanding Marx. Even if you are conservative or a reactionary, he is laying it out for how your political and intellectual processes are working. If you are liberal, you might see why the Right's label of liberal of Marxist is incorrect.

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