Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

ZIZ246 Why I Am Still A Communist (07.12.2019)

Dec 13, 2019

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Is There a Concept of Revolution in the Present Context?

03:51

What Interests Me in Lenin?

02:46

What I Like About Singapore Is That It Has No Natural Liquor

01:34

Introduction

3min

What Is Happening in China?

3min

What Is Repressed From the Dissident Imagination?

3min

Piketty's Dream of a Rejuvenated Local Democracy

4min

Why Do I Still Cling to the Curse Name of Communism?

2min

Apocalyptic Threats, Migrations, Ecology, Digital Control

3min

Is There No Ethnic Cleansing Without Poetry?

4min

Nomadic Immigrants Are Not Proletarians

2min

The Second Apocalyptic Threat

3min

10.

Ideology at Its Worst

3min

11.

The Third Threat - The Commons of Internal Nature

3min

12.

Is Direct Mind-Machine Interface a Threat?

4min

13.

Is This Not a Utopian Utopie?

2min

14.

I'm a Pessimist

3min

15.

Is China the Biggest Success Story of Communism?

3min

16.

Are You a Moderate Right Pro-Taiwan Communist?

2min

17.

Do You See These Threats as Serious Threats?

2min

18.

The Threats of Biogenetics in China

3min

19.

Stalinism and the Nazism of the Soviet Union

4min

20.

I Don't Like the Novel, but I Will Tell You Where I See Real Nostalgia Today

2min

21.

You Don't Need Communism, Right?

5min

22.

Is There a Model of Catastrophism?

2min

23.

The Name of a Problem Is Not a Solution

2min

24.

Why I'm Against Happiness

2min

25.

The Humor of a Right Winger

2min

26.

Are You a Right Winger?

2min

27.

The Problem With Identity Politics

5min

28.

Singapore Is a Wonderful Country

2min

29.

The Nostalgia Is Not a Communist Thing.

2min

30.

Are You a Fascist?

2min

31.

What I Like About Singapore Is That It Has No Natural Liquor

2min

32.

Trump Wins

3min

33.

What I Like About Greta Thunberg

3min

34.

What's the Alternate Scenario?

3min

35.

The Third Version of Crayon and Antigone

2min

36.

Questions From the Floor and Twitter

6min

37.

What Interests Me in Lenin?

3min

38.

The Role of Academics as Independent Critical Engaged Intellectuals

6min

39.

What's Great About University?

3min

40.

Is There a Concept of Revolution in the Present Context?

4min

41.

The Fukuyama Dilemma

2min

42.

What I'm Not Sure About Is Political Correctness Outside the Western Tradition

5min

43.

The Idiot King, Right?

5min

44.

The Science of a Possible Communism

2min

45.

How Can We Turn the Proletariat Towards Our Cause?

3min

46.

APPLAUSE I Don't See... Do You?

2min

Speech and debate with Tyler Cowen at the The 2019 Holberg Debate

Bergen, Norway

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