Slavoj Žižek talking about object small a, digital civilization, desire, psychoanalysis, prosthetic extension, virtual reality, projection, science, language, universality, sexuality, in relation to the authors Freud, Lacan, Kierkegaard and Hegel. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe

Masterclass – Lecture 3 – Communism: An Idea that Divides – Struggle Towards a New Master

Birkbeck, University of London

Masterclass – Lecture 2 – Communism: An Idea that Divides – Ideology: The Terror of Permissive Biopolitics

Birkbeck, University of London

Masterclass – Lecture 1 – Communism: An Idea that Divides – Economy: The Vicious Cycle of Capitalist Reproduction

Birkbeck, University of London

Zizek on what goes on in the new techno digital development

Birkbeck, University of London

Sao Paolo

Although most of the critiques to which my work was exposed in the last years are “so-called,” fast denunciations not worthy of a serious reply, some of them do at least raise pertinent questions : which, exactly, is the status of violence in social life, and how can one justify resort to it? Is in our societies a radical social change — not just a revolt but the imposition of a new order – objectively possible? What is materialism today, beyond the usual versions of deconstructionist discursive materialism, Deleuzian “new materialism,” and scientific naturalism? And, last but not least, what immanent role do jokes play in theory?

One of the topics dealt with here is just how easily ecological disasters are incorporated into the capitalist “system”, thereby casting doubt on whether capitalism will naturally cease to exist as the result of the ecological crises it is criticized for causing. In this way, and much to the horror of Leftist doomsayers, capitalism is not just going to break on its own.

Zizek on the parallax and the function of ideology