Slavoj Žižek: The Courage of Hopelessness (podcast)

[Abstract by Schauspielhaus:] True courage is to admit that the light at the end of the tunnel is most likely the headlights of a coming train. This move has recently appeared in a fivefold form: as a new fundamentalist-terrorist threat; as geopolitical conflicts with and between new non-European powers (China and especially Russia); the rise… Continue reading Slavoj Žižek: The Courage of Hopelessness (podcast)

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Transcendental Subjectivity, Sexual Difference, Brain Sciences – Masterclass 1

With the recent turn towards realism, the notion of transcendental subjectivity is (again) dismissed as philosophically outdated and politically harmful. Furthermore, the progress in brain sciences seems to render this notion irrelevant. But what if we still have to learn a lot from the transcendental approach? The two classes will examine how Lacan’s teaching enables… Continue reading Transcendental Subjectivity, Sexual Difference, Brain Sciences – Masterclass 1

Rage, Rebellion, New Power (podcast)

http://zizekpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/ragerebellionnewpower.mp3 [Abstract by Mosse Lectures (translated by Ippolit Belinski):] The relationship of rage, rebellion and new power forms a kind of dialectical triad of the revolutionary process. In the beginning there are the more or less chaotic outbursts of rage, the dissatisfaction of the people, which they demonstrate more or less violently; however unorganized and without… Continue reading Rage, Rebellion, New Power (podcast)

Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, with Stephen Kotkin (podcast)

[Video version available here.] http://media.nypl.org/audio/LIVE_2015-3-31_Kotkin_and_Zizek.mp3 Books byKotkin [amazon template=thumbnail&asin=0143127861][amazon template=add to cart&asin=0143127861] [amazon template=thumbnail&asin=0812966791][amazon template=add to cart&asin=0812966791] [amazon template=thumbnail&asin=0195168941][amazon template=add to cart&asin=0195168941] [amazon template=thumbnail&asin=0520208234][amazon template=add to cart&asin=0520208234] STEPHEN KOTKIN: I think there are a lot of people out there, but I can’t see anyone. Which is fortunate. I get stage fright. I have to thank… Continue reading Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, with Stephen Kotkin (podcast)

The Transformation of Civilization and the Future of Asia (podcast)

http://zizekpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/197thetransformationofcivilization.mp3 [Perhaps one of his clearest lectures of Žižek, addressing his own views of what needs to be done politically – including his opposition to localism, the emphasis on recreating a new political organisation, what happens the day after the ‘revolution’, etc. Lecture delivered at Kyeonghee University, Seoul (South Korea) on September 26th 2013.]

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The Absolute Recoil (podcast)

Talk: http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/archive/audio/2013_05_10_BIH/2013_05_12_The%20Actuality%20of%20the%20Absolute_Slavoj%20Zizek_talk.mp3 Q&A: http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/archive/audio/2013_05_10_BIH/2013_05_12_The%20Actuality%20of%20the%20Absolute_Slavoj%20Zizek_questions.mp3 [Abstract from Birkbeck:] Hegel is the ultimate bête noire of the last two centuries of philosophy:proponents of Lebensphilosophie, existentialists from Kierkegaard onwards, materialists, historicists, analytic philosophers and empiricists, Marxists, traditional liberals, religious moralists, deconstructionists and Deleuzians, they all define themselves through different modalities of rejecting Hegel. But when enemies start to speak… Continue reading The Absolute Recoil (podcast)

Slavoj Zizek and ‘The Year of Dreaming Dangerously’, interview with Anna Maria Tremonti

[Abstract from CBC:] Come with us on a journey, through the logic, the musings, and the divergent thoughts of a philosopher with rock star status. Slavoj Zizek examines the Occupy movement, the Arab Spring and everything from HBO’s ‘The Wire’ to Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight Rises’. […] Anna Maria Tremonti: Now, you know, I’ve got… Continue reading Slavoj Zizek and ‘The Year of Dreaming Dangerously’, interview with Anna Maria Tremonti

Communist Absconditus (podcast)

http://zizekpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/communistabsconditus.mp3 [Abstract from EGS:] Slavoj Žižek talking about the European debt crisis, the revolutions of 2011, and where things stand now. In this lecture Slavoj Žižek discusses the concepts of exploitation, unemployment, the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street in relationship to Yanis Varoufakis’s “Global Minotaur,” Keynesianism, deficits, Paul Volker, Fredric Jameson, surplus value, recognition,… Continue reading Communist Absconditus (podcast)

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Let Us Demand the Impossible: Communism (podcast)

[The video of this talk is available here and on YouTube.] http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/fodi_slavojzizek_full.mp3 [Abstract by ABC:] In the late 90s, political theorists, economists and politicians were talking confidently about the end of history and the undisputed triumph of liberal “democratic” capitalism. Communism was written off as dead and buried. But after 9/11, the GFC, the Arab Spring,… Continue reading Let Us Demand the Impossible: Communism (podcast)