I've read this, absolutely precious.

Zizek and all the so called Liubliana school is one of the more important events of our time. Mladen Dolar, Alenka Zupancic, etc. are very very important. Neo-lacanians like Lorenzo Chiesa,m etc. are very important as well.

the part when he interprets ilyenkov's cosmology of the spirit and conscious selfdestructive mission of the thinking spirit in the guise of classless communism is epic. thanks for uploading.

00:34 Greetings (in German)
01:16 Introduction (in English)
03:00 The theological-philosophical question of the Absolute
07:34 The Absolute arising from transcendental reflexion (science and anti-Semitism)
15:42 "Can we break out of this transcendental circle?"
17:20 Transcendental positions without Cartesian/Kantian subject
17:42 Claude Lévi-Strauss
18:34 Quentin Meillassoux and fossils
24:50 Alexei Yurchak’s Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
25:26 Foucault’s épistémè
26:08 Louis Althusser
29:18 Ewald Ilyenkov’s “Cosmology of the Spirit”
39:19 Marquis de Sade’s mistake
43:48 Conclusion (cf. Levi Bryant, Jürgen Habermas, Immanuel Kant)
49:05 Example from The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions: A Philosophical Adventure with the World's Greatest Thinkers by Nicholas Fearn
52:50 A Jewish joke about Auschwitz
55:47 Concluding remarks

good to watch after acid trip

21:58 great job extinguishing an unintended provocation.

For more of Zizek on Ilyenkov’s cosmology see this article. The reference to Penzin’s online article in footnote 2 is gold! https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/evald-ilyenkovs-cosmology-the-point-of-madness-of-dialectical-materialism/#_edn2

This is exactly what i needed today, thank you for this, cheers from mexico.

So around 1:28:30 when he talks about the Catholic argument of the eternal soul and the radio transmitter, some theologians explain this type of issue in the way that we as humans have limited capacity, so when the apparatus is overloaded it cannot pick up God's words or whatever it is supposed to be picking up. So the idea is not that the soul would get fundamentally broken from playing with the mind, but nonetheless if you are playing with it too carelessly you are risking a self-inflicted damage (as a pretty much "mechanical" consequence).

This is great discourse.

To honor Zizek you must find out what types of milk they have, and request the coffee be without the type of milk the do not have: in this way you may encounter the spirit of zizek speaking through a confused and frustrated barista

I love how Zizek is pointing out how being a bit of a pervert makes you more human than animal. Haha. How true!

Thanks for uploading!

Zizek, why don´t you debate or have a conversation with Habermas. That would be a great encounter.

23:59 Žižek briefly on Walter Benjamins 'Über Sprache überhaupt und über die Sprache des Menschen'

Quantum particles are disturbances inside a quantum fields. By definition, ideal field is perfectly round sphere, with infinity small dot in the center, where vectors of forces work in a straight lines. Quantum fields are property of relativistic curved space, where ideal geometrical forms are impossible to exist. All we can see, touch or experience are interactions of quantum fields, in a way our species brain remembers and visualize reality. We know this because intelligent live didn't start on Galapagos or any place inhabited by all kinds of life forms but on African savanna deserts, where first people were running away from lions.

Is there anything outside pure scientific experience of reality that is NOT fake and can't be deconstructed by more science? At least something must be real, for sure, or mathematical norms wouldn't be so useful. Or maybe it's just the way we are learned to count stuff, there is a difference if we add + single piece one by one or just multiply x times the same crowds, but axioms of adding and subtracting does prove there isn't. Just the ways we come up with results are different, maybe this is why there is something like Maxwell daemon, a trade off with something we would have to spend more energy and time than the whole thing would be worth it. It's hard to trust your faith in daemon hands, i know, but maybe it's a good daemon. Let's hope Stephen hawking was wrong and galaxy is not a jungle.

Another classic philosophical presentation by the Slovenian polymath.

Zizek is extremely genius

13:20 notions of nature