Slavoj Zizek. The Future of Europe
03/07/2009
www.egs.edu Slavoj Zizek, professor at European Graduate School speaking about radical thinking and the future of Europe at the X. Bled Forum on Europe, The Role of Culture in Knowledge Society, March 7th, 2009, Bled Forum on Europe Association, Bled, Slovenia. Slavoj Zizek lecturing about radical thinking, politics, culture, differentation, difference, markets, countries, commodities, the decaffeinated other, the state of emergency, popular culture, learning, wife, mistress, shock therapies ...
Slavoj Zizek. Todestrieb as a Philosophical Concept
03/06/2009
Slavoj Zizek, professor at European Graduate School speaking about the Todestrieb as a Philosophical Concept at the at Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin Germany, March 6, 2009. Slavoj Zizek lecturing about todestrieb, death drive, death wish, sigmund freud, jenseits des lustprinzips, beyond the pleasure principle, state, tension, repetition, compulsion, death, negation, affirmation, schopenhauer, nuetzsche, annihilation, life, absence, dying, guilt, pain, lacan, desire, lost ...
Sylvère Lotringer. European Graduate School EGS 2009
2009
www.egs.edu Sylvère Lotringer, Free public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2009. Sylvère Lotringer is a literary critic and cultural theorist. A younger contemporary of Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio and Michel Foucault, he is best known for synthesizing French theory with American literary, cultural and architectural avant-garde movements ...
Slavoj Zizek. Anti-Semitism, Anti-Semite and Jew
2009
www.egs.edu Slavoj Zizek confronting anti-semitism, zionism, Israel, jews, and Palestine, using, and in contrast to, the works of Jacques Lacan, Alain Baidou, Karl Marx, and Alfred Hitchcock amongst others, in a lecture at the European Graduate School, or EGS, in Saas Fee, Switzerland. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2009 Slavoj Zizek. Slavoj Zizek is a ...
Michael Hardt. The Common in Communism
2009
www.egs.edu Michael Hardt, speaking about the common in communism, capitalism and socialism, nature of economic and social production, economy, property, labor, conditions, regulation, privatization, nationalization, economic and financial crisis, political evolution, climate change, Karl Marx in a lecture at the European Graduate School, or EGS, in Saas Fee, Switzerland. Free Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies ...
Christopher Fynsk. Ferran Adrià, elBulli & lImage en Cuisine
2009
www.egs.edu Christopher Fynsk speaking to the European Graduate School (EGS) about the chef Ferran Adrià of the restaurant El Bulli in Catalonia, Spain and about how the cuisine relates to the thought of Jean Luc Nancy, Heidegger and the question of taste. Fynsk spoke about the Nancys idea of gastronomic affirmation as well as the concept of the image of art revealing itself through the distended time of the meal. Referencing Mallarme, Roland Barthes and others, Fynsk attempted to draw a ...
Manuel DeLanda. Theory of Language
2009
www.egs.edu Manuel De Landa.speaking about the theory of language, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Postulates of Linguistics, language, linguistics, signifier, term, reference, meaning, grammar, changes in language, dialect and pronunciation, phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, standardization, Noam Chomsky, Ferdinand de Saussure and William Labov in a lecture at the European Graduate School EGS, in Saas Fee, Switzerland. Free Public open lecture for the students and ...
Alain Badiou. The Event as Creative Novelty
2009
www.egs.edu 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 ...
Judith Butler. Hannah Arendt, Ethics, and Responsibility
2009
www.egs.edu Judith Butler speaking about Hannah Arendts study of Adolph Eichmann and lecturing about genocide, plurality, Kant and the categorical imperative, juridical law, performativity, and the formation of Israel in a lecture entitled Hannah Arendt, Ethics, and Responsibility - How To Keep Company With Oneself. Judith Butler Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe ...
Judith Butler and Giorgio Agamben. Eichmann, Law and Justice
2009
www.egs.edu Judith Butler and Giorgio Agamben in a public conversation about Eichmann, Law and Justice at the European Graduate School (EGS) in Saas Fee, Switzerland. They discussed Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann in Jerusalem in relation to Agamben's work on liturgy and the spectacle, or the "liturgy of law" in Agamben's words. They also spoke of Kafka and the idea of justice versus juridical law. Free Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media ...
Giorgio Agamben. Liturgia and the Modern State
2009
www.egs.edu Giorgio Agamben speaking about Michel Foucault, Uficium and the Catholic Church, Homo Sacer, Liturgy, Law, Opus Operatum, Praxis, Ontology, Heidegger with questions by Judith Butler. Giorgio Agamben in a video lecture about the role of the liturgy as well as the etymology and role of the Uficium in the Catholic Church and how those two concepts have carried forth into the contemporary juridical state, most notably in modern ethics and politics. Public open lecture for the ...