Next Guru Decoding: Zizek
Added 2024-05-01 06:58:47 +0000 UTCThat's right, the next decoding episode is Slavoj Žižek!
If anyone has any recommended LONG FORM content let us know below.
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A completely different side of Zizek (although he does throw in some Stalinist Gulag jokes)...Zizek and Sean Carroll discuss quantum physics and multiverse theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=735mYcl3Lrg
everythingism
2024-05-27 15:28:26 +0000 UTCAwww hell yeah! Stoked for this!!
Sean Doody
2024-05-17 23:08:22 +0000 UTCThis is gonna be LONG
Kris
2024-05-17 01:47:18 +0000 UTCThis made me like him more.
Christopher Kavanagh
2024-05-16 19:20:07 +0000 UTCWe will get to Gabor. But we have a backlog!
Christopher Kavanagh
2024-05-12 00:12:30 +0000 UTC"The Pervert's Guide to Ideology" is a good summary of Zizek's ideas using footage from the films he's talking about as a backdrop. So you get to see Zizek appear in the film "They Live" for instance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrnJw-HNI3A I'll be interested to hear the podcast because I have to admit I have no idea where Chris and Matt would come down on Zizek. Chomsky famously was very harsh towards him and said he has "no content" -- but you can argue the reality is precisely the opposite...
everythingism
2024-05-09 10:26:15 +0000 UTCI was shared your podcast at the outset of the Israel Palestine war. I had posted on Reddit a video of Gabor Mate criticizing Israel for atrocities. I was probably instantly banned from r/worldnews but someone shared the podcast as though Gabor was my guru. Several months and a subscription later I was disappointed to not see him mentioned yet. Wouldn’t mind seeing a mini on Gabor Mate, specifically annoying is his etymological fallacies. Lovely man otherwise.
David Hohle
2024-05-08 17:10:57 +0000 UTCA Gurometer which doesn't pick up on Popper himself is a faulty one. He was a difficult man to love with an IDW personality, yet inspired a religious fervor and true believers. He has provided some of 20th century's most famous, ridiculed and resilient misreadings of other philosophers in his endless wars in writing. Going to a mid 20th century British philosopher for commentary on Hegel is like asking Jordan Peterson about Derrida, or an ISIS fighter about Lady Gaga. You can list intellectual reasons for this, but I think it is mostly agreed by philosophers today that the issues at play were at least as historical as they were scholarly (try asking Brits about Germans in 1945), also relating to some truly awful translations. Some of the most renowned analytic philosophy of recent years works with Hegel, finding Popper a bit ridiculous. Not to simply call him a shitty idiot, of course Popper made some substantive (and generally outdated) contributions to philosophy of science. Without completely discarding people working with him today, I'm just pointing out that a quick smell of Popper should reveal there's a reason he's now mostly popular among IDW-like fandoms.
Exai
2024-05-08 09:28:18 +0000 UTCI have recently been reading Karl Poppers book "The Open Society and it's Enemies" in which he heavily criticizes Hegel, portraying him and his influence in a quite similar manner as many secular gurus are criticized here (basically Hegel would score very high on the gurometer according to Popper). Since Zizek who I actually quite like is a Hegelian I am quite excited for this one.
ClemensMz
2024-05-07 07:41:36 +0000 UTCI am very excited for this one!
Dr Citizen
2024-05-07 02:13:33 +0000 UTCFinal one His chat with Alex O'Connor https://youtu.be/kKX_tkfJ4jE
Sam Mountjoy
2024-05-06 19:09:48 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/545x4EldHlg Oxford union address
Sam Mountjoy
2024-05-06 19:09:11 +0000 UTCNovara media interviewed him too https://youtu.be/6_XHvOGWkCY
Sam Mountjoy
2024-05-06 19:08:26 +0000 UTCZizek on Channel 4 https://youtu.be/xN2ZGSX0cIE
Sam Mountjoy
2024-05-06 19:07:33 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/rHP1OwivAL0 Zizek talking to people about Hegel
Sam Mountjoy
2024-05-06 19:07:06 +0000 UTCZizek talking to the give them an argument crew about his debate with JBP https://youtu.be/R8qU1FkYHIA
Sam Mountjoy
2024-05-06 19:04:27 +0000 UTCI guess this stuff would come up in some of the links above (and searches on YT), but Zizek's position on capital-W Wisdom being a pile of shit for arbitrary faux-intellectual freestyling and ideological manipulation might be a point of interest.
Exai
2024-05-03 18:07:55 +0000 UTCWasn't there an event with him and JBP a while back?
Kyle
2024-05-03 06:15:04 +0000 UTCSpeaking of RM. What do you DTG guys think of inviting him on to help decode for this one?
Jacob pierce
2024-05-02 17:34:11 +0000 UTCI don't know if this is useful but Zizek also have a Substack. Might be worth checking https://open.substack.com/pub/slavoj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=32u5pf
raymond horia
2024-05-02 16:00:04 +0000 UTCHeck yeah. I needed someone like you two to do this work for me. if not for RM Brown, my life would never have been touched by his amazing voice at all. But I haven't made it more than 10 minutes of a video of his. Looking forward to this.
JustTheWorstEver
2024-05-02 02:42:36 +0000 UTCToiletsch
Jacob pierce
2024-05-01 20:30:10 +0000 UTCHe makes more sense when talking about film, I find. He’s quite entertaining.
Chris Clark
2024-05-01 19:53:21 +0000 UTCCan’t wait for this! There’s a new ep of why theory which is Zizek focused. I find Todd McGowan less obfuscatory than the big Z but it’s still from that world. They really revere him.
Chris Clark
2024-05-01 19:51:16 +0000 UTCSeconded! TC really presses Zizek on his commitments and the underlying logic /illogic of holding them.
Alex H
2024-05-01 19:17:49 +0000 UTCI recommended his interview with Tyler Cowen on Twitter, so just reupping that. I think a 2-for-1 special would be nice :)
Ethan Milne
2024-05-01 17:09:43 +0000 UTCGodspeed — I’ve never made it through a full interview
Jesse Rimler
2024-05-01 16:15:19 +0000 UTCHe had a two hourish podcast with Alex O’Connor https://youtu.be/kKX_tkfJ4jE?feature=shared
Zack Katopodis
2024-05-01 15:42:06 +0000 UTCStraight to Gulag. *Sniff*
Ymirsdreams
2024-05-01 14:23:16 +0000 UTCHere's a Google drive folder with some examples. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ptQizJadtiY2D5AybsD1ore3P8kpP1l8/view?usp=sharing Peak (for me) Zizek is between 2000-2010. During this time in his public talks he remains focused on his major insight: reading Lacan as a Hegelian, and reading Lacan's semiotic analysis back into Hegel. (There is one of these in the folder.) Recently Zizek has focused more on political commentary from a Marxist/Hegalian perspective. (Also in folder.) To continue the shipping of Matt and Sean Carol, there is an interview with both Zizek and Carol in there as well, where Zizek reads his understanding of Quantum Mechanics from a Hegalian perspective. (In folder.) Possibly as a direct response to Jorden Petersen, Zizek has recently finished a book on 'Christian Atheism', which is worth looking at. (A talk on it in folder.) For an example of Zizek's initial bailiwick -- which was cultural analysis from a Lacan-ian perspective, the Pervert's Guide to Cinema is good. (Long, but good.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0&t=2926s&pp=ygUZcGVydmVydCdzIGd1aWRlIHRvIGNpbmVtYQ%3D%3D Critics of Zizek (straight to Gulag), even those who accept his basic premises (Heglaian process ontology, reading Hegel and Lacan as sympocompatible, etc) will cite (among other issues) that his 'evidence' is all either from cultural artefacts (films) or anecdote; and that he does not lay out any practical plans of action, pretty much ever. In this interview with Will Self he is directly challenged on these points: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CId1iOWQUuo&pp=ygUTeml6ZWsgYW5kIHdpbGwgc2VsZg%3D%3D Any issues with making sense of Zizek's early works / contributions, scoot me a PM. I looked at him a lot for my thesis (ages ago) and have followed his work ever since. (I adore the dude, but I pretty much disagree with most of it. Expedited to Gulag.) Most comprehensive source of audio recordings of Zizek on the internet: http://zizekpodcast.com
Ymirsdreams
2024-05-01 14:17:54 +0000 UTCIt would be bad form to not watch at least one of his Pervert's Guide films. And also his wedding picture with a black eye, which I'm pretty sure he would allow is a text.
Decent Stalactite
2024-05-01 14:10:42 +0000 UTC*sniff
Par
2024-05-01 13:12:39 +0000 UTCAny guru who’s disciples are driven to create something so horrifyingly perverted must be stopped at all costs😱
Par
2024-05-01 13:12:01 +0000 UTCseconding the Ben Burgis interview. Ben is smart and does a better than average job digging in.
S Garvey
2024-05-01 12:27:55 +0000 UTCBoy... What was your mid journey prompt for that picture? "Guy who looks like Slavoj Zizek knocking on death's door"? I thought eye had pretty bad "Augenringe" (German for these dark circles under the eyes. Is there a proper term for this in English?) His debate with JBP was interesting. I liked how he told the audience not to clap as if they were at some sports competition.
Chomagerider
2024-05-01 12:11:30 +0000 UTClove you guys, i see my 6 dollars have helped you up ur game!😂
N ERIC GEORGE LEKAI
2024-05-01 11:14:18 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/3jjRq-CW1dc?si=q_8UwVtRLUIE8StJ
Henry Journeaux
2024-05-01 11:10:32 +0000 UTCHey guys, he did a long-form content interview with Ben Burgis recently. The episode is around 1 hour 37 minutes long and it encompasses a wide variety of topics. So it might be very useful for your decoding purposes. See link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpHaPSCtLq8) Also, if you wanted to decode his abstract, philosophical ideas specifically, there is a nice 37 min video of him on the The Institute of Art and Ideas YouTube page, where he talks about "How Philosophy Got Lost". See link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06KiOj6gjbs) And if you wanted to listen to Zizek's views on contemporary politics, well he went on the Politics Joe show (UK based I think) to shares his thoughts on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, the future of liberal democracy across the world, and why he thinks Oppenheimer was ruined by the Bhagavad Gita. This video has been viewed half a million times! Link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkQ0vEYry20)
SHOUNAK SARKAR
2024-05-01 10:59:02 +0000 UTCZizek makes Matt's "nucular" look positively well elocuted :-)
Jill
2024-05-01 09:39:52 +0000 UTCPerverts Guide To Cinema is fun, that and the 'graphic guide to Zizek' is as deep as I ever got w him. Those are bad suggestions for what you're asking ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Matt
2024-05-01 09:36:51 +0000 UTCYeah, and after that Peterson got into a comma.
Donkey kong
2024-05-01 08:51:33 +0000 UTCZizek and Destiny Venn diagram. People who say the N-word.
Saksaas
2024-05-01 07:45:14 +0000 UTCA good and succinct introduction to Zizek's thinking, in particular his analysis of ideology (his first "big book" The Sublime Object of Ideology) is Why Only an Atheist Can Believe https://youtu.be/8Kck_YJQEvs?si=VAiFtDLWvKZRoVtm And as supplementary material, I found this interview quite good if not the best online (only the introduction is in German, the interview is 99% in English) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm5tpQp6sT4
Alex Blogu
2024-05-01 07:36:35 +0000 UTCThis is long and annoying: https://youtu.be/6_XHvOGWkCY?si=bRwheOryxkNxdXqt
Nina Davies
2024-05-01 07:34:46 +0000 UTCMy favourite is 'coke is it'. The simplest explanation of Lacan ever.
Nina Davies
2024-05-01 07:29:45 +0000 UTCConversation with Yuval Noah Harari
Henry Journeaux
2024-05-01 07:23:26 +0000 UTCI'd never heard if him before Philosophise This...
Kit McLean
2024-05-01 07:15:41 +0000 UTCEnjoy https://youtu.be/80X0pbCV_t4?si=EysXEWBFZg5rjemV
aneladgam_varelse
2024-05-01 07:15:20 +0000 UTCForgot the link: https://youtu.be/Otsv5sHHzs8?si=TY0YsGQxiBRjJ4eS
lun
2024-05-01 07:12:58 +0000 UTCHe did an interview with Piers Morgan recently where he is just monologuing, but I'm not sure that is what you are looking for.
lun
2024-05-01 07:11:17 +0000 UTCHis debate with Jordan Peterson was interesting. A contrast in styles.
Duncan
2024-05-01 07:09:23 +0000 UTCGet used to hearing: " and so on and so on"
Quietscheentchen
2024-05-01 07:06:10 +0000 UTCPerhaps some background reading (well listening) you might like to give you a perspective on his major ideas, Philsophize This! on Spotify has been covering his ideas lately (eps #196-#200). I know you are both VERY fond of philosophers so may enjoy this.
Loui S
2024-05-01 07:03:22 +0000 UTCThe Philosophise This podcast has been talking a lot about him the last few episodes…
Gavin Ryan
2024-05-01 07:01:30 +0000 UTC
