What is the true nature of the Self? | Slavoj Žižek, Carlo Rovelli, Alenka Zupančič
Slavoj Žižek, Carlo Rovelli, Alenka Zupančič debate subjectivity, and how it relates to the world around it.What do idealism and materialism get wrong?With a...
Slavoj Žižek: Should We Grasp AI Not Only as Substance But Also as Subject? - May 22, 2026
The talk was given on May 22, 2026 at the conference: "Knowledge Without Comprehension? On Spirit after Hegel in the Age of AI. - International Conference in Honor of Slavoj Žižek"
Munich School of Philosophy
Organization: Dominik Finkelde
See also: https://hegelonai.wordpress.com/galerie/
see also the Bloomsbury Handbook to Slavoj Žižek:
https://www.academia.edu/164607239/The_Bloomsbury_Handbook_to_Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek_Editor_D_Finkelde_
"The Left Must Retreat to Zero" | Slavoj Žižek on Israel, Trump & the Left (Part 2)
“Even Hypocrisy Is Dead Now”—Žižek On Palestine
In this explosive conversation with Owen Jones, legendary philosopher Slovoj Žižek reacts to “18 months of a live-streamed genocide” and asks: why does the West remain “shocked, but not surprised”—and why do we keep ignoring what everyone already knows? Along the way, he'll explore the nightmares of neoliberalism, the future of Trump, and how the Left can respond...
Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst and political activist. He is International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and Eminent Scholar at Kyung-Hee University, Seoul. His previous books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Trouble in Paradise and Like a Thief in Broad Daylight.
Owen Jones was born in Sheffield, grew up in Stockport and studied history at Oxford. His first book, the international bestseller Chavs, was long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and chosen as one of The New York Times top 10 non-fiction books of 2011. In 2013 he won Young Writer of the Year at the Political Book Awards. His second book was the bestselling The Establishment: and How They Get Away With It, an exposé of Britain’s powerful elites. He is a columnist for the Guardian and a frequent broadcaster.
Slavoj Žižek: “I am all for gamification. Good and evil, I don’t care, give me more of it!”
At the HowTheLightGetsIn festival earlier this year, Slavoj Žižek, Steven Bonnell (aka Destiny) and Lisa Miller met to debate ‘The Game of Life’. Hosted by Myriam François
Full debate: https://iai.tv/video/the-game-of-life
Games are everywhere. And not just on the football field. Workplaces, dating lives, education and even friendships are being packaged as games. Tinder makes love a swiping game of snap, AI claims to have solved long-standing scientific problems by ‘converting them into games’. But critics argue games distort life and empty it of meaning. And games can be dangerous. QAnon was created initially as an alternative reality game, and the world is not made safer by understanding military build up as 'an arms race'.
Do we need to eradicate the relentless gamification of life? Should we recognise life has no clear goal, no way to win, no measures of success, no extra lives or second chances? Should we see games as furthering inequality - creating winners and losers? Or have games always been with us, from the system of money to the hierarchies of education, and for the very good reason that they are a remarkably powerful motivator for action?
Žižek gives a lightning-speed analysis of the history of music, from Bach, Wagner and Mahler to Schönberg and Berg.
Excerpt from a debate at the 2011 Nexus Conference 'The Questor Hero'. A longer version of the debate can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3V-iNwB01Q
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Slavoj Žižek discusses the characteristics of a well-rounded individual, emphasizing dedication to a cause, pragmatism, and engagement in change. He critiques many leftists for their lack of action and tendency to observe revolutions from afar while maintaining comfortable lives
Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsNBv3noSG8
Slavoj Zizek debates Jordan Peterson [HD, Clean Audio, Full]
Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson debate on the concept of Happiness: Capitalism vs Marxism. The event was billed as “the debate of the century”, “The Rumble in the Realm of the Mind”, and it did have the feel of a heavyweight boxing match: Jordan Peterson, local boy, against the slapdash Slovenian Slavoj Žižek in Toronto.
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