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Bernard-Henri Lévy a laughing stock for quoting fictional philosopher
L’idée du communisme
Slavoj Žižek – Les matins de France Culture
Slavoj Žižek, André Glucksmann, Guy Sorman & Cynthia Fleury – Ce Soir
Slavoj Žižek with Bernard-Henri Lévy – Violence & the Left in Dark Times
Slavoj Žižek – Puissances du Communisme

This is a clip from The Culture Show (Episode 22) which aired on 28. January 2010 at 19:00. The description on BBC’s website reads: “Paul Mason meets Slavoj Žižek, described as the most dangerous philosopher in the West, and asks him about his book First as Tragedy, Then as Farce.”, but it wasn’t really a serious discussion. What we got instead is another manipulation of video material from BBC, so in the end it just looks as a very strange mashup of unconnected statements.

Ce colloque a été organisé à l’Université de Paris VIII par la “société Louise Michel”, les 22-23 janvier 2010, en hommage à Daniel Bensaïd, décédé le 12 Janvier. Žižek apparait dans la quatrième table ronde intitulée «communistes sans communisme” à côté de Michel Surya, Tamas Gaspar, Jacques Rancière, et Samuel Pierre Dardot Johsua. Stathis Kouvélakis était le modérateur.

Voir aussi:
npa2009.org
D’autres vidéos de la conférence
Slavoj Žižek, André Glucksmann, Guy Sorman & Cynthia Fleury – Ce Soir
Slavoj Žižek – Les matins de France Culture
Bernard-Henri Lévy et Slavoj Žižek: le débat
L’idée du communisme

Žižek on Katrina in his article The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape:

The events in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck the city provide a new addition to this series of “subjects supposed to…”—the subject supposed to loot and rape. We all remember the reports on the disintegration of public order, the explosion of black violence, rape and looting. However, later inquiries demonstrated that, in the large majority of cases, these alleged orgies of violence did not occur: Non-verified rumors were simply reported as facts by the media.

Isn’t the same thing happening in Haiti?

See TheRealNews (which includes an interview by Peter Hallward):

See also:
Why Haitians Are Not Victims

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French radio program Les matins de France Culture hosted Slavoj Žižek to talk about First as Tragedy, Then as Farce.

See also/Voir aussi:
L’idée du communisme
Bernard-Henri Lévy et Slavoj Žižek: le débat
Slavoj Žižek – Puissances du Communisme
Slavoj Žižek, André Glucksmann, Guy Sorman & Cynthia Fleury – Ce Soir
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
Cooper Union Lecture
LSE Lecture
Economic Crisis and Ideology Critique Today (upcoming)

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Ce soir débat sur le capitalisme avec le philosophe d’extrême gauche Slavoj Zizek, le libéral Guy Sorman, le reconverti André Glucksman et la philosophe Cinthy Fleury.

See also/Voir aussi:
Slavoj Žižek – Puissances du Communisme
Slavoj Žižek -- Les matins de France Culture
Bernard-Henri Lévy et Slavoj Žižek: le débat
L’idée du communisme

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This was a live broadcast aired on third or fourth of December on NTV, a Turkish News Channel. It’s an interview made while Žižek was in Istanbul to give two lectures in Boğaziçi University.

Thanks to Ali B for providing the information.

Al Jazeera English – Empire – Europe: A fast-track superpower?
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Europe has finally adopted a new treaty to strengthen its union, and chosen a president and foreign minister to speak with one voice for the continent.

Twenty-seven countries, with more than 500 million people, a combined economy bigger than the US and almost two million soldiers under arms, the European Union is to all intents and purposes, a superpower.

However, Europeans remain divided on central issues. Its cheerleaders, and foremost the dominating Franco German alliance, are celebrating the supranational Union they expect to lead globally, just as its detractors warn of a giant leap toward a federalist Europe that looks to compromise their national sovereignties and weakens their democracies…

Soon after the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, treatise “Das Kapital” saw a resurgence in popularity throughout eastern Germany. The 1867 critical analysis of capitalism by Karl Marx became a bestseller for academic publisher Karl-Dietz-Verlag, as a rejection of capitalism set in following intense financial turmoil. More than a year later, questions over the validity of the capitalist economic system remain in focus amid ongoing concerns about the cost to society of bank bailouts, high unemployment and stimulus measures. If anything, the financial crisis has made capitalism more lean and mean, author and philosopher Slavoj Žižek told Reuters ahead of a talk at the London School of Economics. Žižek suggests that those in power should be undermined via “patient ideologico-critical work” rather than direct confrontation.

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For those of you who think that Stephen Sackur is a really bad interviewer, see BBCs ‘Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution’ and compare the portrayal of Žižek there to this video..

See also:
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
Alain Badiou -- BBC HARDtalk

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Žižek visits the RSA to ask the question that is on everyone’s lips: if we can pour billions of dollars into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization, why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis?

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This session features a conversation between prominent radical theologian Thomas Altizer and well-known cultural critic Slavoj Žižek on the continuing and changing currency of the “death of God” idea within theology, religious studies, philosophy, the arts, and the trajectory of global culture in general. How has the notion of the death of God evolved as the secularization thesis has declined? Has the phrase become passé or is it alive, current, and still significant? Must we understand this phrase in new senses in the present globalizing world? What are the most important resources and thinkers for contending with its meaning? Around the core exchange of the two panelists, some thirty or more scholars, junior and senior, who have been closely engaged with the death of God idea have been invited to participate actively from the audience, with the intent to catalyze a lively, multifaceted conversation on these issues.

Unfortunately I couldn’t find a recording of Altizer from this event.

See also:
The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?
The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?

Alain Badiou lecturing about mathematical logic in relation to Aristotles book 4 of the Metaphysics, in particular on the proposition of the excluded middle and its relation to the event as creative novelty. He proposes that of the four types of logic it is the fourth type of negation -- the negation that obeys neither the principle of non-contradiction nor the principle of the excluded middle -- is in fact the total destruction of any power of negativity. It is the null point of the first three propositions in which negation finally exists only as the negated. Badiou uses this proposition to illustrate his ontology that a thing -- be it physical, biological, scientific, philosophic or juridical -- is a pure multiplicity without any qualifying determination. The laws of the world are not laws of things themselves but instead laws between the relationships of things.