Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

ZIZ297 UNHOLY ALLIANCES TODAY (17.03.2023)

CENTENARY LECTURE SERIES VALEDICTORY ADDRESS

ZIZ296 Only a Catastrophy Can Save Us (04.03.23)

To conclude this years discourse programme, Elevate Festival welcomes Slavoj Žižek to Orpheum Graz. In his lecture “Only A Catastrophe Can Save Us” he asks, in view of global crises and swelling doomsday scenarios: What if the great catastrophe is … Co...

ZIZ295 Are There Still Masters, or Are There Only Servants of Servants? (21.12.2022)

This is a recording of a Zoom presentation from 21st December 2022 for the Walden Korea Lecture Series, as part of the International School of Philosophy in ASIA (ISPA)

ZIZ294 Why Do We Enjoy Feeling Ashamed (01.11.2022)

Internationally renowned philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek returns to Seton Hall for a public talk entitled “Why Do We Enjoy Feeling Ashamed?”

ZIZ293 Why We Should Not Go To The End of the Revolutionary Road (31.08.2022)

ZIZ292 The Flight of Minerva in the City of God (29.08.2022)

Žižek’s paper was delivered the largest Slovenian annual foreign policy event, the Bled Strategic Forum (BSF), on 29th August 2022, in a special “Night owl session”, followed by a dialogue with Guillaume Klossa on the future of Europe.

ZIZ291 Should We Trust Nature More than Ourselves? (02.06.2022)

Are we above nature? How can we combat extremism? How do extreme ideologies often become their opposite? In a lively discussion between Slavoj Žižek and Yuval Noah Harari, the two thinkers debate extremist ideology, our role in nature,

ZIZ290 What is freedom today? (27.05.2022)

Isn’t Ukraine too much hurt because of its desire for freedom? We will be able to discuss this live with a lecturer who is in the TOP-25 of the world’s best intellectuals according to Prospect Magazine (UK) and Foreign Policy … Continue reading →

ZIZ289 What Is Ideology? (31.03.2022)

Slavoj Zizek and Vivek Chibber debate the role of ideology in promoting capitalist stability. Does capitalist ideology prevent workers from rising up? Or does the class structure within capitalism make non-collective forms of resistance, or worse,

ZIZ288 The revolution and the real (29.05.2022)

Slavoj Žižek is considered one of the best-known, but also most controversial philosophers of the present day, who completely overturns the common way of thinking in his texts. Yves Bossart talks to him about the theories behind his surprising contempo...

ZIZ287 Discussion on Lacan (23.03.2022)

Slavoj Zizek, Todd McGowan, and Russ Sbriglia explore the points of greatest strength and greatest weakness in the thought of Jacques Lacan. They focus on the notion of surplus enjoyment, the formulas of sexuation, and the four discourses.

ZIZ286 Interview with David Feldman (07.03.2022)

Discussion with Slovenian Philosopher, Slavoj Zizek. Co-hosted by Russell Sbriglia, Ben Burgis, Adnan Husain and Ann Li

ZIZ285 Hegel and Hardcore Pornography (15.02.2022)

ZIZ284 GTAA Season 3 Episode 29: The Return of Slavoj Zizek (25.01.2022)

Ben Burgis and the GTAA crew talk about Hitchens and lesser figures who “left the left.” Slovenian anti-capitalist philosopher Slavoj Zizek returns to the show to talk about subjects ranging from communism to AOC’s boyfriend’s feet.

ZIZ283 We Need Further Catastrophes to Awaken Us (23.12.2021)

Briahna Joy Gray asks the Slovenian philosopher to revisit his stance on Biden and Chomsky’s vote blue no matter who take from exactly a year ago. Is it enough for the left to merely hold Biden accountable to his own … Continue reading →

ZIZ282 Yanis Varoufakis & Slavoj Zizek | Festival INDIGO 2021 (21.10.2021)

Cukrarna Gallery (Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana)

ZIZ281 Apocalyptic & Post Apocalyptic – pandemic, dystopia, horror, climate change, & so on (14.10.2021)

Inauguration of the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies on 14 October 2021 with the Inaugural Lecture by Slavoj Žižek.

ZIZ280 The Capitalist Promise & The Paradoxes of Desire (19.06.2021)

The pandemic has not only amplified the ego’s visibility obligations—sitting at home, lonely and tired, trying to sprinkle energy on Zoom—but it has transformed the global capitalist order. How does this combination of fatigue and uncontrollable change...

ZIZ279 About His Debate With Jordan Peterson (09.05.2021)

Ben, Russell Sbriglia and Matt McManus interviewed Slavoj Žižek about his debate with Jordan Peterson. Producer Forrest joined at the end to ask some audience questions.

ZIZ278 Why I oppose Historicism and Remain a Philosopher (07.05.2021)

This discussion is centered around a new text of Lacanian thought entitled The Desire of Psychoanalysis by Gabriel Tupinambá. A symposium was held on May 7th and May 8th 2021 to elaborate some of the main theoretical issues raised in … Continue reading →