Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

ZIZ246 Why I Am Still A Communist (07.12.2019)

Dec 13, 2019
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
What Is Happening in China?
03:05 • 3min
3
What Is Repressed From the Dissident Imagination?
06:15 • 3min
4
Piketty's Dream of a Rejuvenated Local Democracy
09:37 • 4min
5
Why Do I Still Cling to the Curse Name of Communism?
13:44 • 2min
6
Apocalyptic Threats, Migrations, Ecology, Digital Control
15:57 • 3min
7
Is There No Ethnic Cleansing Without Poetry?
19:02 • 4min
8
Nomadic Immigrants Are Not Proletarians
23:00 • 2min
9
The Second Apocalyptic Threat
25:16 • 3min
10
Ideology at Its Worst
28:17 • 3min
11
The Third Threat - The Commons of Internal Nature
31:10 • 3min
12
Is Direct Mind-Machine Interface a Threat?
34:29 • 4min
13
Is This Not a Utopian Utopie?
38:11 • 2min
14
I'm a Pessimist
40:20 • 3min
15
Is China the Biggest Success Story of Communism?
43:17 • 3min
16
Are You a Moderate Right Pro-Taiwan Communist?
45:50 • 2min
17
Do You See These Threats as Serious Threats?
47:47 • 2min
18
The Threats of Biogenetics in China
49:38 • 3min
19
Stalinism and the Nazism of the Soviet Union
52:15 • 4min
20
I Don't Like the Novel, but I Will Tell You Where I See Real Nostalgia Today
56:39 • 2min
21
You Don't Need Communism, Right?
58:22 • 5min
22
Is There a Model of Catastrophism?
01:03:00 • 2min
23
The Name of a Problem Is Not a Solution
01:05:11 • 2min
24
Why I'm Against Happiness
01:06:59 • 2min
25
The Humor of a Right Winger
01:09:00 • 2min
26
Are You a Right Winger?
01:10:41 • 2min
27
The Problem With Identity Politics
01:12:20 • 5min
28
Singapore Is a Wonderful Country
01:17:28 • 2min
29
The Nostalgia Is Not a Communist Thing.
01:19:00 • 2min
30
Are You a Fascist?
01:20:56 • 2min
31
What I Like About Singapore Is That It Has No Natural Liquor
01:23:18 • 2min
32
Trump Wins
01:24:52 • 3min
33
What I Like About Greta Thunberg
01:27:24 • 3min
34
What's the Alternate Scenario?
01:30:43 • 3min
35
The Third Version of Crayon and Antigone
01:33:42 • 2min
36
Questions From the Floor and Twitter
01:35:43 • 6min
37
What Interests Me in Lenin?
01:41:17 • 3min
38
The Role of Academics as Independent Critical Engaged Intellectuals
01:44:03 • 6min
39
What's Great About University?
01:49:49 • 3min
40
Is There a Concept of Revolution in the Present Context?
01:53:03 • 4min
41
The Fukuyama Dilemma
01:56:54 • 2min
42
What I'm Not Sure About Is Political Correctness Outside the Western Tradition
01:58:59 • 5min
43
The Idiot King, Right?
02:03:52 • 5min
44
The Science of a Possible Communism
02:08:41 • 2min
45
How Can We Turn the Proletariat Towards Our Cause?
02:10:19 • 3min
46
APPLAUSE I Don't See... Do You?
02:13:09 • 2min