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Next Guru Decoding: Zizek (Patreon)

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2024-05-01 06:58:47
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That'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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Gavin Ryan Studio

The Philosophise This podcast has been talking a lot about him the last few episodes…

Loui S

Perhaps 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.

Duncan

His debate with Jordan Peterson was interesting. A contrast in styles.

lun

He did an interview with Piers Morgan recently where he is just monologuing, but I'm not sure that is what you are looking for.

Nina Davies

My favourite is 'coke is it'. The simplest explanation of Lacan ever.

Saksaas

Zizek and Destiny Venn diagram. People who say the N-word.

Matt Dear

Perverts 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)_/¯

Jill

Zizek makes Matt's "nucular" look positively well elocuted :-)

SHOUNAK SARKAR

Hey 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)

N ERIC GEORGE LEKAI

love you guys, i see my 6 dollars have helped you up ur game!😂

Chomagerider

Boy... 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.

Decent Stalactite

It 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.

Ymirsdreams

Here'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

Jesse Rimler

Godspeed — I’ve never made it through a full interview

Ethan Milne

I recommended his interview with Tyler Cowen on Twitter, so just reupping that. I think a 2-for-1 special would be nice :)

Chris Clark

Can’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.

Kyle Dun

Wasn't there an event with him and JBP a while back?

Exai

I 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.

Dr Citizen

I am very excited for this one!

ClemensMz

I 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.

David Hohle

I 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.

everythingism

"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...

Kris

This is gonna be LONG