Slavoj Zizek. Materialism and Theology - 2007 5/8
BackSlavoj 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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Video Comments:
Egorend (March 22, 2008 at 4:16 am)
The presumption of a genome without ancestry runs against both fact, and against the central point that there isn't an absolutely "pure" nature that exists prior to and apart from humanity, and that the ideology of the exception as the human ironically & hypocritically asserts the fundamental err of industrialization to be its arrogance of dominion (as new age & ecological mvmts replace it with exception. Any good genetic engineer knows that the most synthetic life itself is still consequent of
composerlafave (December 4, 2007 at 2:26 am)
I admire Zizek for his clarity and his boldness, as well as for the originality and coherence of his viewpoints. But my oh my does he dance around trying to define "materialism" as its opposite! His description of reality as "unfinished" bears no resemblance to what Hegel, etc., meant by materialism. It's much closer to Chesterton's definition of mysticism, given in the previous segment of this lecture. Why not simply say it? -- Materialism is finished, long live to new mysticism.
sickuntodeath2 (December 11, 2007 at 12:39 pm)
Perhaps I'm mistaken but I believe that when Zizek describes reality as unfinished and materialism as incomplete he is pointing to the fact that knowledge is never complete.
0neironaut (April 17, 2008 at 3:37 am)
no, not at all... Zizek is being literal: Reality is the void.
sickuntodeath2 (December 11, 2007 at 12:49 pm)
Regarding mysticism, Lacan speaks of 2 forms of jouissance: 1. the jouissance of the Other 2. the Other jouissance. The latter is the joiussance of feminine sexuality but you don't have to be a female to have access to it; Lacan ascribes this jouissance to the mystics also.
Vairuna (September 22, 2007 at 12:34 am)
that would make a great commercial: New vacuum bombs. Safe bombing for you and your family.
RealityEngines (June 4, 2008 at 5:12 pm)
Vacuum bombs suck. (ah-hem)
Iokultes (September 12, 2007 at 9:49 am)
ecology as ideology; the russians just tested the "father of all bombs", a vacuum bomb that is enviromentaly-friendly :D
alucardzer0 (September 18, 2007 at 9:20 am)
major lulz :D