CENTENARY LECTURE SERIES VALEDICTORY ADDRESS

Exploring global crises and doomsday scenarios as a wake-up call. Critiques of anti-gay sentiment, Western imperialism, and alliances. Delving into human sexuality through a Freudian lens. Positive change from catastrophe, ethics, and ecological complexity. Questioning God's belief and exploring disillusionment. Artistic references and bitterness in conversations. Ethical quandaries of technological advancements altering human traits before birth.

The podcast delves into the failures of the left, challenges of liberal capitalism, resurgence of patriarchal values, defiance of state laws, catastrophic scenarios, anarchism in expert-dominated societies, and the paradox of choice and authority.

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

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.

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, the notions of good and evil, and catastrophes of the past. The conversation is moderated by Günes Taylor, and was filmed on June 2, 2022 as part of the HowTheLightGetsIn Festival.

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 (USA). He was nicknamed “Elvis of Theory of Culture” and “the most dangerous philosopher in the world.”

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, resignation, more likely than collective action?

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 contemporary analyses.