Full lecture: On Žižek’s theory of perfection

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  • čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
  • Hi guys, thanks for joining me for my weekly lecture! It’s totally open-access and free for anyone to watch.
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    #zizek #slavojzizek #philosophy

Komentáře • 71

  • @merenis7627
    @merenis7627 Před rokem +9

    Pure gold, I love that it's such a current analysis, almost no one is talking about the fake authenticity yet. And it relates to what I was thinking about so much :) thank you

  • @absolutelysanedefinitelynormal

    Thank you for making these videos available for free. I'm interested and invested in learning about philosophy, but it is highly inaccessible to most people.
    Your explanation makes hard topics and often convoluted philosophical terms much simpler and easy to digest.
    Your content is very enjoyable. I'm probably going to binge watch everything you've done so far. :D
    Also, hello to you from Russia!

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  Před 2 lety +9

      Thank you so much! That’s the dream, to prove that education can be accessible and entertaining without dumbing to down. Thank you for understanding

  • @sentimentalsediment3000
    @sentimentalsediment3000 Před 2 lety +18

    So happy this found me, self help is rotting my brain

  • @szymonukaszewski4910
    @szymonukaszewski4910 Před 2 lety +57

    I'm going to stay with the theory that Zizek is your father

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  Před 2 lety +23

      Well my father is a professor so it’s close enough 😂

    • @szymonukaszewski4910
      @szymonukaszewski4910 Před 2 lety +8

      @@julianphilosophy Professor of what? I'm intrested

    • @totonow6955
      @totonow6955 Před 2 lety +3

      Not enough sniffing ; ) ... Love them both. Cheers to you.

  • @jonathanwoodvincent
    @jonathanwoodvincent Před 2 lety +10

    4:55 starts the lecture proper

  • @Slim-Richard
    @Slim-Richard Před rokem +4

    You can look at Saint-Exupery quote as not embracing the imperfection but catching the essence. Especially when you apply it to objects. Its often used in design. You can add features indefinitely but it will distract from items purpose, will make it chaotic, when you strip the object to essencial features, all of them become purposefull and harmonic.

  • @greensleevez
    @greensleevez Před měsícem

    This is an actual tech quote from Civilization IV: "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

  • @17goffshas
    @17goffshas Před 2 lety +5

    Authenticity is imperfection. The ability to be one's whole self, both flaws and graces included. To know both triumph and failure; to live moment by moment as both self and moment change. To be eternally ephemeral.

    • @foodchewer
      @foodchewer Před 19 dny

      I don't know what else to say but based.

  • @wolfgangkohlhof2180
    @wolfgangkohlhof2180 Před 2 lety +2

    All about holding it possible to conclude, to engage, to devote yourself, so all about negation of logic, morality, dignity. What stays is the inviting, the provoking, the joking of yourself, the world, even god.
    And believing as an expression of thankfulness for the precious and fragile and endangered gift of love, setting all the hope available into the "fact", that loss won't - in true, but irrational terms - mean just loss of love, but even in loss of love loss of loss itself, so that resurrection - in even more irrational terms - is, in the eyes of reality itself, a logical turn, a kind of wordless conclusion.
    Thanks for the video (Germany)

  • @huseyinkerem6010
    @huseyinkerem6010 Před rokem +2

    Greetings from Istanbul. Glad to learn you two met here. Keep up the good work!

  • @webquestAUS
    @webquestAUS Před 2 lety +4

    What a perfectly (im)perfect way to share love. Thank you! ❤️

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  Před 2 lety +1

      My pleasure! Thanks for watching. And if you liked the lecture you might also enjoy the podcast I recorded afterwards. Available here: www.patreon.com/jenalineandjulian

  • @mardybum74
    @mardybum74 Před rokem +2

    this lecture is amazing

  • @RuthParodies
    @RuthParodies Před rokem +3

    Do you also have a Spotify, Julian? Would love listening to your lectures whilst biking (Greetings from the Netherlands)

  • @user-il9ze9py8c
    @user-il9ze9py8c Před 2 lety +5

    I know this might be a lot, but would you be willing to drop links to the books you use in your lectures? That or like a reading list. Love the videos!

  • @hewasfuzzywuzzy3583
    @hewasfuzzywuzzy3583 Před 3 dny

    I need an updated unglitched version or revisit of this entire video. I don't mean to be nagging or complaining-which means I'm going to or I already am. This could have been so much more replayabe if not for the technical issues you were continuing to have after trying to fix it.
    * sigh * There's a lot I can salvage though from what did come through. I'll just have to listen in small bites and think a lot more than I thought I would have to. So, i guess this makes me listen better. And think more. And not just consume and move onto the next piece of content to, consume without thought.
    Sooo.... Thank you. Really!

  • @Makiade
    @Makiade Před 2 lety +4

    Good stuff, From Kenya🇰🇪

  • @emanuela4128
    @emanuela4128 Před 2 lety +2

    Thank you for making videos! From Czech republic

  • @luboba1
    @luboba1 Před 6 měsíci

    I just stumbled upon your channel and I like it so much already. So much to think about! Cheers, from Salvador-Bahia-Brazil

  • @soyivanv6609
    @soyivanv6609 Před 2 lety +3

    Wonderful videoooo
    Greetings from Mexico!

  • @noctisumbra4656
    @noctisumbra4656 Před 2 lety +2

    Watching this video from Colombia c:

  • @kamkamkam_
    @kamkamkam_ Před 5 měsíci

    Greetings from Manila, Philippines

  • @abtinshirzadi3195
    @abtinshirzadi3195 Před 2 lety +4

    Blessings from Kurdistan

  • @blacksheep7370
    @blacksheep7370 Před rokem +2

    Can you do something on the intersectionality of eastern philosophy and Zizek thoughts.

  • @evilsdouble
    @evilsdouble Před 2 lety +3

    Loving it!

  • @metrineruth2653
    @metrineruth2653 Před rokem +1

    Greetings from Kenya🇰🇪

  • @greensleevez
    @greensleevez Před měsícem

    I actually think the audio imperfections are part of the .

  • @mrsbrownstone2471
    @mrsbrownstone2471 Před 2 lety

    Greetings from Serbia! Keep up the good work!

  • @soloocio4926
    @soloocio4926 Před rokem +1

    Saludos desde Morelia, Michoacán, MX

  • @Vladimir-Struja
    @Vladimir-Struja Před 2 lety +1

    People on dating profile biographies often claim that they are authentic, when describing their character. Interestingly enough, those same people appear most inauthentic...

  • @fm5399
    @fm5399 Před 2 lety

    Thanks from Italy!

  • @hediehsh4817
    @hediehsh4817 Před 9 měsíci

    This one is speechless

  • @p.l.g.y.9434
    @p.l.g.y.9434 Před 2 lety +1

    joining you from india : )

  • @tyrdunbar
    @tyrdunbar Před 2 lety

    Love these vids. Listening from kentucky love your tiktoks too

  • @SonnyTheJoker
    @SonnyTheJoker Před rokem

    Greetings from Thailand

  • @julian_laso2004
    @julian_laso2004 Před rokem

    Ecuador hahahaha, i love ur videos and it's super helpful to understand some text and concepts that im reading by myself jsjssjsj

  • @JimiFilo
    @JimiFilo Před rokem +1

    Anything **curated** as an “aesthetic” cannot be “authentic”.

  • @caterinaint6963
    @caterinaint6963 Před 2 lety

    Hi from Australia

  • @markromine5103
    @markromine5103 Před 2 lety +2

    Excellent yt clickbait. Zizek on something with no Zizek. Noice.

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  Před 2 lety +1

      I’m sorry you felt that way, but this strikes me as unfair. I’ve posted more than 50 Žižek lectures to my channel, none of which include Žižek.

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  Před 2 lety +5

      But if it makes you happy I can change the title. How about ‘On Žižek’s theory of perfection?’ See new title. Hope that’s better.

  • @salahzarita3022
    @salahzarita3022 Před rokem

    love from algeria

  • @iliyaboyanov558
    @iliyaboyanov558 Před 2 lety +7

    Isn’t it 3 pounds and not 30 😂

    • @iliyaboyanov558
      @iliyaboyanov558 Před 2 lety +1

      With 3 you can empathise how you are closer to perfection and you should stay there close to the perfection barrier

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  Před 2 lety

      You’re right

    • @manueljohn456
      @manueljohn456 Před 2 lety +2

      I think it was 5 ;) but i feel like the difference between 3/5 and 30 is absolutely crucial. 30 pounds more or less is a world of difference in many regards, often with actual benefits, looks-wise and health-wise. Being 30 pounds overweight and wanting to lose some of that has nothing intrinsically to do with perfection, just with improvement. Wanting to lose 3/5 pounds, on the other hand... is exactly the chase for perfection that zizek is talking about.

  • @jimmypk1353
    @jimmypk1353 Před 2 lety

    Love from Pakistan! ❤

  • @mauve9266
    @mauve9266 Před rokem

    22:50

  • @joelexperienced
    @joelexperienced Před 2 lety +2

    Came for the spit, was disappointed

  • @Majkels
    @Majkels Před 2 lety

    Are you formally educated in Philosophy?

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  Před 2 lety +6

      Yes and no. I didn’t do a degree in philosophy but did a BA in post colonial theory, an Ma in cultural studies, and a PhD in politics (theory and IR focused). But that’s actually quite a common trajectory for continental theorists

  • @torbjornkarlsen
    @torbjornkarlsen Před 7 měsíci

    Riveting stuff but the sound is really laggy. No doubt a clear sign of true perfection, but it is a little difficult to hear what you're saying.

    • @julianphilosophy
      @julianphilosophy  Před 7 měsíci

      Just purchased a good mic and hoping to use it for the next lecture. Thanks for taking the time to watch!

  • @talibaltib7280
    @talibaltib7280 Před 2 lety +2

    🇮🇶 iraq

  • @elbowroom3663
    @elbowroom3663 Před 2 měsíci

    The Buddha had this figured out 2500 years ago.

  • @ime90
    @ime90 Před 2 lety

    Croatia

  • @ioscorn4865
    @ioscorn4865 Před 2 lety

    Nepal🇳🇵🤙

  • @Chrisjavier2604
    @Chrisjavier2604 Před rokem

    Leo davinci’s work is perfection, look at David, in this example thus does not apply

  • @user-yt7zo3rf6d
    @user-yt7zo3rf6d Před rokem

    Belarus

  • @mostaphaabdul-samed8573

    Iraq

  • @kestutisa3826
    @kestutisa3826 Před 2 lety +3

    fake Žižek