Slavoj Žižek: "Why I Am Still A Communist". The 2019 Holberg Debate with Slavoj Žižek & Tyler Cowen.
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Published 2019-12-07
00:23:00 Slavoj Žižek's keynote speech
01:07:28 Slavoj Žižek is interviewed by Tyler Cowen
01:59:25 Q&A
At the 2019 Holberg Debate, we were honoured to be joined by two big thinkers: Slavoj Žižek and Tyler Cowen. Žižek delivered his keynote address, “Why I Am Still A Communist”, before being interviewed by Cowen.
The event took place at the University Aula in Bergen, on 7 December, 2019.
For more information, visit the Holberg Prize website:
holbergprisen.no/en/2019-holberg-debate-slavoj-i-e…
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Don't miss the 2023 Holberg Debate on December 2. Anil Seth, Tanya Luhrmann and Rupert Sheldrake will debate the question: "Does Consciousness Extend Beyod Brains?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofSUaZOW9h8 Feel free to follow the event page on Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/315569814476878 More information on the Holberg Prize webpage: holbergprize.org/en/2023-holberg-debate-does-consc…
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1:02:00 The extremely rare triple and-so-on.
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Hating on current cancel culture does NOT make you a conservative.
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"I'm ready to sell my mother into slavery to watch V for Vendetta part 2" - Zizek
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It's kind of funny that for all his interjections, lack of focus, impatience, digressions and rambling it seems like it is Zizek who actually listens to and understands Tyler Cowen, while Cowen is just repeating his one point over and over regardless of what Zizek says.
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22:45 Zizek start
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how silly to assume zizek's fascination with stalinism must be nostalgia... yugoslavia was not stalinist and tito was famously vehemently opposed to stalin and vice versa.
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Zizek: Explains his views in detail Tyler: You're Humour is right wing!!, YoU have nostalgia!!11!!
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I find it funny how the other guy tries to coax Slavoj to stop using the communist label. It really seems to bother him that a communist would make so much sense.
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So the interviewer basically had just one question to fill an hour? "Because of nostalgia, will you stop using the 'communist' label?" Such a broad mind!
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I love how Zizek cracks up at himself when he said he was a member of Liberal Democratic party haha.
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This is essentially Zizek trying to spur fruitful conversation while Cowen tries to ensnare him in some kind of cheap 'gotcha!' moment
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"Happiness is for pimps" Zizek 2019
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I love seeing how anyone who speaks to Zizek tries to be funny and fails miserably
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I'm not a huge reader of Zizek but I admire that when his critics are polemic to his face he just responds with an argument and encourages debate rather than tautologies like 'That's just nostalgia', 'That's conservative humor', etc.-- or like a conclusion without premises. When one disagrees with a conclusion it is because one disagrees with the premises that support it. Because Cowen's interjections lack premises they are inherently irrational and dialectical dead-ends.
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I like how Zizek just talks about whatever he wants regardless of what questions he's asked. What a subtle but effective tactic for dealing with the Neo-Lib establishment. Lol
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what kind of sadist designed these chairs? :D
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Cowens only argument seemed to be “why don’t you just not call yourself a communist” as if that was somehow earth shattering or was a valid argument against Žižek
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I like how in Tyler's view of the world, everything can be kind of plastic, everything can change and morph, except for the rightist position, because everything is in relation to them in his view. We all love to eat from the trashcan of ideology, don't we? :D
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Tyler Cowen literally sounds like a right wing radio host and it didn't even seem like an interview so much as it was just him trying to persuade Slavoj
