Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours In this talk Pro­fessor Žižek will talk about his new book, Against the Double Black­mail: Refugees, Ter­ror and Other Troubles with the Neigh­bours. From within the safety of Europe Žižek argues we face two ver­sions of ideo­lo­gical black­mail – open-door solid­ar­ity with refugees and draw­bridge-minded pro­tec­tion­ism. Both pro­long the prob­lem – so, con­fron­ted with this double black­mail, we find ourselves back at the great ques­tion: what is to be done? The refugee crisis offers to Europe an oppor­tun­ity: a unique chance to redefine itself. The only way, argues Žižek, to truly get to the heart of one of the greatest and most urgent issues con­front­ing Europe today is to insist on the global solid­ar­ity of the exploited and oppressed. Maybe such global solid­ar­ity is a uto­pia. But, he warns, if we don’t engage in it, then we are really lost. And we will deserve to be lost The Forum for European Philosophy

Part 2 of the Masterclass: Surplus-Value, Surplus-Enjoyment, Surplus-Knowledge Jacques Lacan loc­ated the ori­gin of his key notion of plus-de-jouir (sur­plus-enjoy­ment) in Marx’s notion of sur­plus-value, and it is worth explor­ing in detail the homo­logy of the two notions, adding a third one, that of sur­plus-know­ledge, a pseudo-know­ledge in the guise of which our ignor­ance appears (“supreme” know­ledge of God and other hid­den forces, con­spir­acy the­or­ies, etc.). Such an ana­lysis is cru­cial for resus­cit­at­ing Marx’s cri­tique of polit­ical eco­nomy, as well as for prop­erly under­stand­ing today’s global cap­it­al­ism and its ideo­lo­gical effects, up to fun­da­ment­al­ist viol­ence Birk­beck, Uni­ver­sity of Lon­don

Part 1 of the Masterclass: Surplus-Value, Surplus-Enjoyment, Surplus-Knowledge Jacques Lacan loc­ated the ori­gin of his key notion of plus-de-jouir (sur­plus-enjoy­ment) in Marx’s notion of sur­plus-value, and it is worth explor­ing in detail the homo­logy of the two notions, adding a third one, that of sur­plus-know­ledge, a pseudo-know­ledge in the guise of which our ignor­ance appears (“supreme” know­ledge of God and other hid­den forces, con­spir­acy the­or­ies, etc.). Such an ana­lysis is cru­cial for resus­cit­at­ing Marx’s cri­tique of polit­ical eco­nomy, as well as for prop­erly under­stand­ing today’s global cap­it­al­ism and its ideo­lo­gical effects, up to fun­da­ment­al­ist viol­ence Birk­beck, Uni­ver­sity of Lon­don

Hegelian Battles – Lec­ture 3: Hegel in Athens: what would Hegel have said about our pre­dic­a­ment?The battle for Hegel goes on – new inter­pret­a­tions are emer­ging which per­haps pose an even greater threat to Hegel’s leg­acy than the usual rejec­tions of Hegel. This series of lec­tures will provide a cog­nit­ive map­ping of this twis­ted ter­rain, with the aim to redeem Hegel for the rad­ical thought Birkbeck, University of London

Hegelian Battles – Lec­ture 2: What is Recon­cili­ation? Hegel Against Schiller The battle for Hegel goes on – new inter­pret­a­tions are emer­ging which per­haps pose an even greater threat to Hegel’s leg­acy than the usual rejec­tions of Hegel. This series of lec­tures will provide a cog­nit­ive map­ping of this twis­ted ter­rain, with the aim to redeem Hegel for the rad­ical thought Birkbeck, University of London

Hegelian Battles – Lec­ture 1: Against Recog­ni­tion: A Cri­tique of the Lib­eral Read­ing of Hegel (Pip­pin, Bran­dom) The battle for Hegel goes on – new inter­pret­a­tions are emer­ging which per­haps pose an even greater threat to Hegel’s leg­acy than the usual rejec­tions of Hegel. This series of lec­tures will provide a cog­nit­ive map­ping of this twis­ted ter­rain, with the aim to redeem Hegel for the rad­ical thought Birkback, University of London

Sept 25, 2015 Istan­bul. Con­fer­ence organ­ized by MonoKL and the Muni­cip­al­ity of Kartal dis­trict

This is an audio record­ing of an event held at 21. Novem­ber 2015 in Ber­lin, where Sla­voj Žižek and Jela Krečič Žižek spoke in a debate titled »The Birth of Com­edy out of the Spirit of Des­pair«, mod­er­ated by Mat­thias Göritz

Held on 21. November 2015 at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin. A continuation of the ‘Europe is Kaput. Long live Europe!’ panel with Yanis Varoufakis & Julian Assange

Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg