Down with ideology? Talk with Slavoj Žižek | Sternstunde Philosophie | SRF Kultur
He is considered philosophy's enfant terrible, provokes those on the right and on the left and analyses events from the perspective of Marx and Hegel. Above all, Slavoj Žižek is hip, and has been for decades. The eloquent all-rounder defends his ideology criticism on The Finest Hour - Philosophy.
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For Slavoj Žižek everything is ideology: whether capitalism or tolerance, Islam or simply day-to-day life. Buying a mobile, choosing clothes, toothpaste - it is all cloaked in ideological terms. Therefore for him, Marxist social criticism is not a thing of the past, it is more current than ever.
Where before people used to be blinded by religion, today they are subjugated by technocracy and capitalism, Žižek finds. Nevertheless, the Slovenian philosopher holds on to the idea of truth and advocates human rights and Eurocentrism. He explains how all this fits together in his conversation with Barbara Bleisch.
Literature on the subject:
►Slavoj Žižek: Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism. Penguin, 2015
►Slavoj Žižek: The New Class Struggle - the Real Reasons for Flight and Terror. Ullstein, 2015
►Christopher Kul and Piero: Introducing Slavoj Žižek - A Graphic Guide Icon Books Ltd, 2011
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This is the most European thing ever filmed: A Slovenian madman and a Swiss interviewer, one speaking German and the other English, without any translators, while discussing philosophy and ideology... Beautiful ❤️
Actually, you can hear Zizek speak a few german words every once in a while, and indeed, I was very surprised and impressed to learn a few days ago that he does speak german verly fluently. beautiful indeed.
Indeed 😊
wow a swiss person speaking german, insane right?
@@generalerica4123 Zizek also speaks French and Serbo-Croatian and also Slovene of course..
Somehow Swiss interviewers always end up interviewing Zizek... there was an ARD interview and the interviewer was also Swiss.
interviewer: asks a question Slavoj: 2 Y E A R S G U L A G
*** re- education Lmao I love this interview
"That's why in my People's Republic you will only have two years of re-education and not gulag" I like his way of saying compliments
i like how he mixes English with German.
Maybe because there is no word for it in English :-D LoL
The best was at 15:25 "my Russian freunds"
This interviewer is one of the best that I have ever seen with Zizek. The questions where he puts on the glasses are great. So many interviewers aren't familiar with Zizek's work, etc. This interviewer clearly did her homework
She is by far one of the best German interviewer of intellectuals. The reason might be: She is a philosphoer by herself.
She's a legit philosopher!
It's called journalism
I'm in love...
Very interesting and engaging. Great interview, and great interviewer.
I love her half fascinated, half alarmed expression!
Her: are you describing your life. Him: No, I don’t eat bananas. 😆
@CiPoint He eats from the trashcan of ideology.
@wes_harding hahaha he does i can give a testimony to that
"I sleep on a banana peel"
"Maybe Earth is our mother, but it's an evil bitch!" - Slavoj Zizek Gotta love this man (and so on and so on.)
"Now im seeing a beautiful woman" Smooth....
Hector Z. Timestamp please
And then "now say we are flirting with each other"
Kamaki.
Hes also really smooth in the way he flirts with cathy Newman in his video On Brexit and Corbyn
11:54
Ich habe noch nie ein so gutes Interview mit Zizek gesehen. Chapeu an Frau Bleisch für diese Arbeit, so muss man mit Slavoj umgehen, damit er einen nicht mit seinen Ergüssen erschlägt.
The pure Swiss puzzlement of the question: "DO YOU NEVER BUY ORGANIC PRODUCTS?" I just adore it!
Hahaha:D
Absolutely fantastic interview. It is so refreshing to see someone able to step up to Zizek's intensity and not only hold the stage with him but also bring out both his best and his bullshit with intensive and fearless questioning. Thank you Barbara Bleisch! P.S. I am subscribing and would definitely love to see English subtitles available on more of this channel's videos. I know it's a lot of work so won't count on every video but more often would be great. Thanks in advance for making that happen!
Thanks for the positive feedback! For future videos with English speaking guests (in Sternstunde) we plan on always uploading the videos in both languages (with subtitles). Have a nice day.
@@srfkultursternstunden Thanks! I live in the UK and there is absolutely nothing on our television coming close to this level of analysis and intelligent engagement. Discovering this video was refreshing, and I'm excited to think that there might be any more english language content to be discovered on SRF Kultur, who I'd never previously heard of
@@srfkultursternstunden Thanks a lot, from the U.S.
Slavoj Zizek is always spectacular, but his nimble-minded exuberance is often distracting to interviewers. Full marks to Barbara Bleisch - what an intelligent and well conducted exchange! I guess it takes a philosopher to interview a philosopher.
Barbara is absolutely fantastic!I saw many debates or conferences ...the host role is always key but not totally fulfilled...Barbara is really surfing and diving with a high efficiency following Zizeks answers and asking brilliant questions !
best part: Slavoj ranting with radish clump in his hand
What if they are ordinary radishes and if you look at the glasses with another set of glasses you find that they do not show the truth but another layer of ideology?
the incongruence became so distracting that Barbara Bleisch felt she had to take them back.
When you put in a random item for a joke but your guest takes it as a challenge.
this made me laugh HAHAHA
Making Zizek wave around vegan chocolate while wearing those sunglasses and shirt is pure meme material. All this reporter wanted to do was provide fresh meme compositions for an hour. Success.
Can you send me the respective links? Or are you even the one producing them? 😍
What he said while waving it around was pretty spot on as well. But yeah, memes first
F N My gott... (tugs shirt) Do you not shee that your anti-meme ideology is predicated entirely on its dialectical opposhit? Without memesh (sniffing intensifies) the meme-haters of the world would have nothing to jushtify their redundant exishtensh. To demonstrate, I will now tell a racisht joke I heard from a Kosovan:
@@eosapienrancher4045 *sniff*
@F N I think you might have a good message in there somewhere, but it kind of gets drowned by the overriding "I'm better than all of yous" vibe. Personally I thought it was a humorous comment. No need to go making blanket statements...
I think he liked the interviewer very much ... he is sweating much more than usual
You must be quite fond of him too if you know how much he usually sweats
cocaine bro
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
With the temper of his i would sweat as much
@I'mposs ible you win sir
I really loved this exchange! Please open up more of your contents to international audiences with English subtitle: it greatly helps me with my not-so-good German.
I'm in the same boat. Tho I still hope to work in my German one day haha
Would have helped if she asked in English :P
Thats the advantage of swiss television. Its still more focused on educational themes rather than pure entertainment.
Hit like if you want zizek to wear them glasses in the debate with Jordan Peterson.
You miss the point. He doesn't need the glasses, he's not blind to the ideology around him. And btw the topic of the debate is "Happiness" and as I see it they argee.
@@johnsmith1474 Did u mean argue or agree?
Every good demagogic performer must have their props.
@@johnsmith1474 ''he's not blind to the ideology around him'' Boy, are you gullible. Zizek believes men dominate women. He is definitely blind to his own ideology.
he sure does Trevor wtf u talking about lol @@citycrusher9308
When i am depressed .. i run to watch this guy.
Danke für den Upload ohne Synchronübersetzung🙏🏼
Doch wäre es schön, Slavoj auf Detsch zu hören :P
@@juantoledo5248 die deutschsprachige Version findest du hier: kzhead.info/sun/f9ecYclrp4uqha8/bejne.html
@@srfkultursternstunden Eure tollen Dokus wäre auch super mir deutschen Untertitlen. :)
"Are you describing real life?" "No, I don't eat bananas and so on"
I'm vegan. I only drink coffee without soya milk.
Sorry, we've only got coffee without dairy milk here
Farahen Den why don’t you like it without almond milk
I prefer it without almond milk
Is it still funny if I turn the joke around again and correct you "Im vegan. I only drink coffee without milk"? No :(
and? so what
This is excellent. I much prefer this german-speaking (this swiss) interviewer to most American/British ones.
She's wonderful
I prefer the swiss interviewer over all germans
German culture is much more polite than English/American, so yeah there you go.
The tree branches in the background are so beautiful
they seem to speak of a realm outside of ideology?
This might be the best Zizek interview I've ever seen. Amazing work by the interviewer.
I'm always amazed at how quickly he organizes such complex thoughts and explains them clearly (most of the time)...
The fact that public intellectual debates like this still happen in Switzerland almost make me want to move there
"Imagine if you some day slip on a banana peel and a woman helps you up, you look at her and it's the love of your life" -Are you talking about real life? "No, I don't eat bananas."
“No no no I don’t eat bananas and so on” hahahaaaa
24:44 "you plug in yours, i plug in mine" 😂😂😂😂 I love this man... metaphysically XD
24:24 Nevermind me, just leaving a timestamp for myself in the future
Great interview. Žižek is difficult, but like a book that you can't put down.
like listening to a schizophrenic
Haha, very well put!
I just started getting into Hegel because of him and it's frickin hard, but in a couple of days I already found out some stuff and how it connects to other philosophers because he's not afraid to use examples of pop culture to make it easier to understand. It's quite amazing.
In my younger days I would have to wait for some kind of lost home-recorded VHS tape from a friend, or hope that some alternative TV station of my country would broadcast this interview late in the night (probably years later). Now I just click a «play» button few hours after it has been uploaded. What a time to be alive! What a great interview!Thanks!!
And for that wonderful time we live in, we can only thank capitalism. :)
As a youngster, I take that for granted. But I gotta tell you, your times were probably better to grow up in, growing up with the internet is pretty hard.
@@tomislavveg *inspite of capitalism
@@tomislavveg 5% Capitalism, 95% State-funded scientific research. Oh, and SRF is also a state-owned corporation. In fact, that's specifically why this interview is free here, rather than on a paid streaming service.
Miles Anderson even though srf is state owned, i believe the term state has a completely different meaning in switzerland. Politics and ideological oppression don’t really exist there
Barbara is so fast on her feet!
well it's not much of a compliment since he can barely walk
Slavoj: "Materially, coffee without milk is the same as coffee without cream." Interviewer: "Get out"
She says 'Genau' which is german for 'Precisely', 'Exactly'
@@stennostenno1346 How can she agree to such an obviously false statement, these are two different things
@@fidetrainer How so?
@@fidetrainer What do you mean lol.
@@fidetrainer coffee without milk and coffee without cream is both just plain black coffee, but implies that coffee is either to be served with milk or cream
_I keep touching my nose after watching Zizek for a while_
its so nice that Zizek is answering in german at times :D love it :D
5:14 her face in the end of his explanation is priceless
Zizek: "I'm not a cynic" Great fun was had by all after that sentence.
One of the best interviews Ive seen with Zizek. Great questions and Barbara Bleisch really did her homework. She put up just the right amount of fight to get a few words in while also leaving enough room for Ziezek to ramble. Will surely come back to this one!
Barbara Bleisch should be the only interviewer in the world, lol. Hats off to her, excellent job!
19:14 "Beat the sheet out of yourself". Slavoj Zizek
Really impressed by these interviews, wonderful that you add subtitles for the international audience.
Great interview, props to the interviewer
She enabled him to show him at his most refreshing, as an entertainer within an intelectual context. I would love to have friends like her.
She really shocked him with that "so you don't buy organic?" question haha. Loved the interview
Fantastic interview! An actual interaction between the interviewer and Slavoj! I want to see more of this
It is impossible not to like this man. Even if you disagree with him, he inspires you.
In what way did he inspire you?
inspires you to what?
@@iraja9918 to seize the means of production
I think you wanted to say that it is not possible to dislike this this man.
I wouldn't say he inspires me, but I love the way he talks. Also its interesting to see someone so thoughtful, aside from how I feel about his opinions.
"To beat the enemy you must first beat the sh*t out of yourself." (19:20) What a lovely Sternstunde der Philosophie!
Zizek comes across as incredibly salient here, but I have to say, what a phenomenal interviewer. She really got the best out of him.
In my perception I've never come across a more intellectually capable interviewer than her. From my point of view she formulated exactly those questions that I immediatly asked myself. And on a personal note, I loved how she did neither give up on getting a precise answer nor penetrated him by merely repeating the same question. Really, well done. A truly insightful post!
As someone who gets forced to pay for SRF (365.- annually) and actually hates to do it, I am very happy to see a production like this. She (the interviewer) is actually awesome and did her job very good. If there are more productions like this and if they put them on the internet to make the world a little bit smarter, I am acutally happy to pay my part of it.
6:07 "Coffee is not coffee, coffee is sex" - George Costanza
I just recently started diving into Zizek about a month ago. He can be hard to decipher at times as he's so sporadic in delivery and slips into many many tangents. Sometimes his main point can be hard to pin down but regardless, his stream of philosophical consciousness is something quite amazing to behold. I appreciate his particular style of criticism due to the fact that he knows how to ruffle up feathers but just in the right way to make you think instead of reacting in ideological defense. I'm treading these waters lightly but this seemingly shallow stream is proving to be far deeper than I honestly would have wanted. You have my attention but I'm not quite sure what to make of you yet Zizek... Time will tell. I think a debate with Jordan Peterson is exactly what the internet needs right now.
Jordan Peterson is not on the same level as Žižek... and I think you're looking this "debate" as a binary battle of intellectual wits you're missing the point. Žižek has described Peterson in the past as a "trendy" philosopher only speaking half wittingly on any forefront topics. Peterson has actually said he "skims" through things only scratching the surface then making decisions based on a minute amount of information.
Whilst Peterson has some valid points, they aren't original and can be found elsewhere. He seems to me a villain and a charlatan; intellectually dishonest and a willing puppet to political ideologues. Only those who refuse to look will fail to see it.
I don’t think my last comment submitted It sounds like people make excuses for this guy in the same way people did for Manson. I’ve read some of this mans articles, watched debates and speeches, listened to interviews and still find myself knowing nothing about what this guy is saying
"I'm treading these waters lightly but this seemingly shallow stream is proving to be far deeper than I honestly would have wanted" Wow you are so deep
Jordan is not even on the same planet.
5:17 the look on her face is priceless. she can't tell if she's listening to the ramblings of a madman or the teachings of a genius. Perfect reflection of how Zizek's audience must feel.
One of Žižek's best discussions. Thanks for posting this!
Danke SRF für wirklich gutes Qualitätsfernsehen.
Dieser Mann ist echt faszinierend. So viel Energie und am Ende dieses Bekenntnis. Wirkt super dieser Mann. Danke diesem tollen Sender SRF! Gehört mit ARTE auf meine DauerListe an Bildung. Schön, dass es euch gibt.
VIelen Dank für die Originalton-Version! :)
When I put the glasses on Zizek says "Stay paranoid".
He could be referring to the allegory of the cave by Plato, which might be the oldest example in European culture that refers to this notion he describes of how ideology surrounds all things and once you notice this there is no real way of going back to that place of innocence. It's quite amazing this was my first lesson in art school and I always thought it didn't matter but here I am, watching Zizek with sunglasses and suddenly my head goes *ding*
the interviewer is so adorable and the fact that she is taking deep interest in the ramblings of this madman makes her even cooler.
“ i would prefer not to” from Melville’s , ‘Bartelby’ .
Genius of 21st century. Loved the 'love' allegory; his view on parenting, Hollywood, Wikileaks, politics. He speaks it as it is. And when he said 'happiness is for the idiots', I killed myself laughing. So very true. All is perfect as it is. His negation on his shirt is very true and the way he describes it. It is 'non duality' or meaning that there is no separation. Keep doing a great job.
Oh, how I wish we had such intelligent interviewers and deep conversations here in the U.S.! Viva Zizek!
This was origially supposed to be a 5 minute interview
Congratulations and thank you so very much for such a fantastic interview. This is one of those beautiful conversations that you wish lasted for hours and hours. Barbara is such a fantastic interviewer.
Great interview! I'm so glad that you guys subtitled it! By the way, great intro!
Like a swiss clock, she, the interviewer, was so well engineered and finessed to speak to him, prodding him, asking him and even teasing him with the right precision without hurting him to go offkey - a wonderful interview - Bravo. And the best part is it brought out the best of S Zizek. Thanks so much for uploading this.
My God. This guy exhausts me. But I can't help but like him.
I must have watched this interview probably 20 times. Doubtlessly one of the best interviews roaming around the www.
This interviewer and the way she shows deep understanding of his work and also how she guided the conversation was very impressive. I've subscribed. Gut gemacht, Barbara Bleisch!
so cool to be able to watch two people maintain a conversation, speaking two languages. and that too about philosophy no less
what an excellent interviewer! i am a huge fan of Slavoj Zizek, was even lucky enough to meet him and talk to him. however, I rarely find an interviewer, who makes his ideas pop and truly is a partner for a discussion with him. excellent piece of journalism! subscribing now to the channel, hoping to get more content like this in english :)
"Real freedom is very painful. It hurts!" So true!!!
This is a really great interview. It's smart, it's witty and....it's very clear. And all my respect to Mrs. Bleisch for being able to channel this constantly erupting fountain of words into a deeply meaningful talk. Very well done. It's quiet clear by her questions and pointers that Mrs. Bleisch did her homework on this guy, which made this video so much fun to watch. I've seen enough bad interviews to recognize an excellent one when I see it. Thank you for posting this.
Absolutely fantastic interview. The right kind of questions that slowed down Zizeks ranting, while also giving him the time to articulate his points.
Thanks for speaking English, Slavoj. Great interview Barbara!
Der Mann ist eine Wucht. Er ist wie eine Frucht, die über das Hören und Sehen verzehrt wird. Die Moderatorin steht ihm auf Augenhöhe. Das ist sehr beachtlich angesichts ihres wuchtigen Gegenübers.
I am very grateful for this interview. Thank you to the interviewer for her thoughtful questions and to Slavoj for being so honest. I feel very moved by many of his ideas and am always intellectually fascinated and often surprised by his answers.
My seatbelt is, as usual, on with my mind attempting to keep pace with his jet-fuelled intellect. #bravo
One of the niecest interviewers I've come across
"Each of us has an inner calling....and you must discover this and follow this up to death...and if you don't succeed in doing this, your life is lost." Somehow I found this insanely funny and it had me laughing on the floor. Somehow genius that line.
What a beautiful set. and what a beautiful set of questions knowing very well that he can just talk alot of terminology, she's guiding him into getting into a little bit more
Great interviewer, congratulations. Thank you for the subtitles.
One of the best Zizek interviews I've seen! Interviewer and Zizec did a great job! Bravo! "damn, girl. you lookin so goooood... " WHO SAID THAT?!?!
How often do you see a profound, non-aggressive philosophy chat on normal TV? Amazing! Thank you so much.
Großartiges Format SRF! Eine ausgezeichnete Moderatorin und immer interessante Gäste mit wichtigen Themen. Muss ja auch mal gesagt werden. :)
Even if you don't agree with Zizek's answers or interpretations, you have to concede to his underlying premise of asking the right questions. Without asking the right questions, you will only find the incorrect answers.
Great interview, as someone who doesn't know anything about philosophy, this was one of the few interview with this guy that was actually intelligible.
What a fantastic interviewer. It’s so rare to see someone able to truly challenge their subject in an interview without interrupting too much or being combative. She was assertive and held her ground, but the entire time I felt it was because she had a true curiosity and couldn’t stop until she got to the bottom of what she was asking about. Also, I can’t help but agree with Zizek - a beautiful woman indeed! Zizek was brilliant per usual.
One of the clearest and most exhilarating interviews I've seen with Zizek. Thanks.
habe vergessen zu atmen und bin dehydriert! unglaubliche dynamik. super sendung. vielen Dank :)
First time listening to zichek My summary of the first half is that he’s trying to bring awareness to ideology’s function, which is to suppress and falsify reality through external symbols such as language and visual advertisement.
Surrealism in a nutshell, but now it's pop.
That was brilliant! She is the best interviewer I have seen take on Zizek with such intelligence and clarity. Fantastic.
what a great interview, shes very precise and brings out the best in him
"Ah! I can answer you this one perfectly!" So great! :D
11:55 Zizek spitting that game
Zizek is Zizek, but the Lady is well prepared for the interview and she handles him marvelously!
Damn, he really can speak German! There's always something new to learn about this guy