Florence Read satisfies Slavoj Zizek.
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In his new book 'Surplus Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed', psychoanalyst and also Marxist thinker Slavoj Zizek suggests that Western decadence has actually reached a point of no return. When it concerns the synchronised crises of climate change, the pandemic and also the war in Ukraine, he insists, only a cooperative global effort will certainly steer us away from catastrophe. But have the culture wars weakened the West excessive to reclaim order in disordered times? Slavoj Zizek signed up with UnHerd's Florence Read, live from his home in Slovenia, to discuss the cure for chaos.
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00:00 – 00:49 – Introduction.
00:49 – 09:24 – Slavoj Zizek explains the concept of 'surplus enjoyment', and also how we escape it.
09:24 – 12:45 – Just how does Zizek see the role of Huge Pharma throughout the pandemic?
12:45 – 19:05 – What should NATO's function be?
19:05 – 23:57 – Is Putin's intrusion of Ukraine similar to Hitler's expansionist Germany?
23:58 – 26:02 – Should the West defend Taiwan if China invades?
26:02 -31:52 – Slavoj Zizek on Jordan Peterson and also woke culture.
31:52 – 41:30 – Is the genuine danger a union between Western Right-wingers as well as authoritarians like Putin?
41:30 – 46:21 – Is the option to return to practice?
46:21 – 47:18 – With power as well as water being rationed, is the West seeing the results of its unsuccessful ideological backgrounds?
47:18 – 49:44 – What is Slavoj Zizek's definition of communism?
49:44 – 51:51 – Are we addicted to turmoil?
51:51 – 55:47 – Should we be getting rid of the signs of excess pleasure from our societies?
55:47 – 57:06 – Concluding ideas.
#UnHerd #SlavojŽižek #SurplusEnjoyment.
Girl Freddie is very good.
The word salad king.
Spit guard on that mic is the real unsung hero of this sad story
Dear mr.
I would like very much if you could interview one of our farmers in the Netherlands. They are being threatened by the government to loose their land . Our protests are not reaching yet the majority of the people outside the Netherlands.
Could you please help us ?
Fight back 💪🏼🤝
Zizek advocates political assassinations, and laughs about it, in a time when one of his team actually was going to do it, but called 911 on himself. This is no longer acceptable, if it ever was. It’s something you say when you’re drunk, not on a podcast acting like some sort of thought leader.
And the interviewer says nothing. Complicit.
I absolutely love this man, even when I don’t agree with him 🙂 Thank you for this interview!
The one man that always forces me to lower the speed from 2X
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I’d love it if UnHerd interviewed Adolph L. Reed Jr., professor emeritus of political science at U Penn, a specialist in racism and U.S. politics. Like Žižek, he’s a Marxist; unlike Žižek, he’s not a Lacanian. Reed’s arguments against “wokeness”—against “woke-ism”—are as fascinating as they are convincing.
Lol, yeah I lowered it too, though 2x is usually a bit much for me… I usually stick to 1.5 or 1.75
The other guy I always have to do this is Sam Vaknin. Also a great philosopher and psychologist in my opinion
It’s indeed not a part of the Ukraine that is the problem, it’s the people living there, and a certain way they have been threaded the last couple of years.
And is he reflecting his own addiction to chaos to the rest of the World? Or is he only watching the world leaders that seem to be addicted to chaos.
Followed Žižek for years but he seem to have lost the ability for holistic thought. Only seems to reason things in light of his own fears.
While giving you a shower of spit😂😂
We are not transiting to green economy Slavoj. Germany just opened thermal power plants. India had a climate lockdown for using too much coal last year. This year climate lockdown will happen in Germany, because they switched gas for coal rather than opening their nuclear power plants.
When we look for something new we create it to be found
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@J B The super spreader at every in-person event.
I’m drawn back to Zizek repeatedly by his eccentric manner and repeatedly surprised by how painfully conventional he is.
The world is not addicted to chaos, it’s leaders are because they never experience it.
If he lived in China in Mao era, his eccentric manner could put him in prison 😂
Are they related? xD It’s uncanny. Too lazy to look it up
At time 2:42, Zizek, said “fluidification”. The caption mentions wrongly “solidification”.
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It’s delicious to watch a collectivist idealogue hysterical in knowing we’ve had enough and it’s over.
He seems to be more restrained than usual
@King Crimson3x6 Maybe it’s Freddie cross-dressing
All to the contrary.
You need an education.
Zizek is unfortunately hard to follow but my impression is he says one thing and then counters himself.
People like Zizek mistake order for what is right. A more powerful government may be able to get the trains running on time, but at some point you’re no longer transporting people, rather units of the state.
Great! One of the best Slavoj discussions in recent times. Thanks!!
Great conversation. Our hope lies in catastrophe. My lord, Zizek paints a very dark future. I may fear his solutions. I absolutely fear the transition towards them.
I don’t even not like the guy for a sort of commy is alright to be fair. I may not agree with him but he does have some very unique ways of seeing problems and some novel solutions to them
@Dan Croitoru
It could be, though.
Here, hear.
@Jane Taylor-Powell
Because that’s all collectivism is – sharing.
Perhaps the auto caption doesn’t speak daffy duck.
@Jay Beaton You only can share your hate.
@Matthew M Perhaps the auto caption isn’t perfect.
@Matthew M
Auto captions must take an inclusivity course.
@Zuzanka The Petsitter from California😂😂😂
I prefer Cornel West,but have huge respect for both Reed & Zizek! They are all leaders in their respectful fields! Btw dr Richard Wolf is the best man for breaking down Marxism for dummies.
@Jay Beaton you too
@Kon Berner not necessarily! Many shamanistic cultures regard the Universe as “predatory” (and it seems to me that they are more right than wrong) but human morality, on the other hand, is absolute. No space for relativism. You can conclude about the absolute nature of morality by watching complex organisms as a whole. All of them have specific and absolute morality. All cats, for example, behave in certain ways and interact within certain limits. Same with all species. Morality, imo, is species-specific and humans are not the exception. They may think they are but, at the end of the day, a dubious moral modus operandi leads to failure. For example there’s seldom an employer that treated customers and employees in an immoral way and got away with it. If that ever happened that would be the rare exception to the rule. Morality is absolute, yet the plague of this era is moral relativism.
@Benoît Guillette oh my god, what life experience and cultural reference points led you to such a conclusion?! Get some therapy tout suite! Truth is a matter of perspective…
@Jane Taylor-Powell your reply is pitiful
There is nothing new under the Sun. Only the names change. The more it changes, the more it stays the same.
baloney
@Benoît Guillette oh, thank you ♥️ I’d much rather be beyond contempt than something that engenders hostility. You’ve made my day ♥️ Duck and cover and all that…
You forgot the “s”
@Bob ?
@Benoît Guillette ?
@Bob !
@C_R_O_M__________ So how has the US done after their Native genocide? Pretty good it seems. I am a moral fallibilist, which means while I agree there could well be a human objective morality, we can never know what it is.
@Kon Berner On the contrary, we can easily know what objective morality is by how things progress within a society. If the American society was the bloodthirsty society that some leftist ideologues want to portray it is (was), I guess people would avoid it. Yet, they flock towards it!
BTW, the “Native American genocide” was basically death by illnesses than anything else. You see Europeans brought with them illnesses that the Native Americans didn’t have immunity for. Most died from that.
Moreover, the mass massacres the Native Americans performed among themselves, prior and after to the European settlers’ arrival, is an asterisk in history or how things were dealt among them? That’s a rhetorical question. Just look up the history of the Commanches and how they massacred anybody else and what they did to them. Just do it on an empty stomach! My advice…
Mr. Źiźek puts out very confusing arguments and yes he seems addicted to his own chaos.
@C_R_O_M__________ All you are doing is assuming “oughts” without explaining why. Science is value neutral, and claims like “humans ought to do those things that make more humans” are not grounded in any science.
Par for the course…
My laughter shattered the void when Zizek accused political correctness of “fake radicalism” (it is) while simultaneously advocating authoritarian state measures on behalf of global megacorps and deflating the notion of “communism” to simply mean “we need international cooperation and healthcare.” Talk about coffee without cream, it’s embarrassing that this parody of a philosopher still has the nerve to call himself a Marxist. Very far indeed from “let the ruling classes tremble…”
That’s what ‘surprises’ me as well. Almost 99% of the time he regurgitates the most monotonic mainstream globalist talking points. But then there are moments when he malfunctions and argues outside his general worldview, like when he talked about the pacifism – a critique that made sense. But then he went back at the room temperature IQ argument that putin = hitler, a talking point that was already criticized in other editions by our UnHerd journalists. It’s already too smoked to make sense.
Probably the charm of him is that he’s so incoherent that he becomes coherent in this, that sometime he argues against his own worldview by mistake.