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Title: Slavoj Zizek: The Delusion of Green Capitalism
Added: Apr 20, 2011
Author: ForaTv
Duration: 4:6
Description:
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/04/04/Slavoj_Zizek_Catastrophic_But_Not_SeriousPhilosopher Slavoj Zizek argues environmentally conscious consumers are desperate for simple tasks they can perform to alleviate their guilt, so they do things like purchase overpriced organic produce. Zizek also highlights Starbucks, which he suggests attracts customers by appealing to their sense of altruism.-----The Committee on Globalization and Social Change will launch with a special lecture by philosopher and critic Slavoj Zizek who will speak on "The Situation Is Catastrophic, but Not Serious." This alleged message of the Austrian military headquarters during WWI renders perfectly our attitude towards the ongoing crisis: we are aware of the looming (ecological, social) catastrophes, but we somehow don't take them seriously. What ideology sustains such an attitude?The Committee on Globalization and Social Change (CGSC) is an interdisciplinary working group composed of a core group of CUNY faculty interested in reflecting on globalization as an analytic category for understanding social change. Slavoj Zizek, born 1949 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Senior Researcher at Birkbeck College, University of London, is a Hegelian Philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, Christian atheist, Communist political activist, and he thinks these four features are four aspects of one and the same Cause. His latest publications are: in philosophy The Parallax View, in psychoanalysis How to Read Lacan, in theology The Monstrosity of Christ, and in politics Living at the End Times.
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Youtube Comments: 212
jenius124 Says:
Feb 17, 2012 - Get the fuck out of here.
ididete91 Says:
Mar 11, 2012 - The problem is that he is not wise at all. Only totally mentally impotent idiots consider him wise. And only total dupes don't see that he is a fame whore.
Redfingers Says:
Mar 12, 2012 - Man does this dude have a leaky nose every goddamn day or something
sniperquasi Says:
Mar 15, 2012 - it's sort of a tick, and his accent
JayGatsbyOdysseus Says:
Mar 23, 2012 - Zizek is the biggest bullshitter since Rasputin.
IiiERT Says:
Mar 25, 2012 - "..natural small-mindedness and laziness."Or because it's simply an unreasonable chore to (for example) start investigating the true origin of a product or its production process, to see if the company that makes it is obeying international laws and stuff like that.I really hate that it's not the companies responsibility to ensure an (howshouldiputit) "ethical production chain", but that it's somehow the consumers resposibility to make the right ethical choice when buying their products.
rodentboyextreme Says:
Mar 31, 2012 - He's not even talking about "green capitalism"...
mindstormsabrewin Says:
Mar 31, 2012 - How funny that I had to sit through a "Chevy Volt" commercial before this video.
redword2007 Says:
Apr 9, 2012 - Which aspects of his arguments do you consider flawed?
ididete91 Says:
Apr 9, 2012 - An argument from his "In Defense of Lost Causes" for example, where he claims that human-cyborgs, Terminators that kill with no regret are the new revolutionaries, the new revolutionary mentality that is able to bring capitalism down. Hence, he puts forth a typically capitalist, "Terminator", mentality as the one which is supposed to destroy capitalism. How do you call this error in argumentation? I have READ Zizek.
ididete91 Says:
Apr 9, 2012 - Entirely.
EvaRose85 Says:
Apr 18, 2012 - he has that nervous tick because he has a zillion thoughts and ideas swimming and brewing in his brilliant mind! he is fantastic!
Arnarstyrb Says:
Apr 23, 2012 - It seems that being a Marxist is enough to get noticed these days.
spanky489 Says:
Apr 24, 2012 - this guy is fukin crazy and i aint biased im from the same country as him
v1das007 Says:
May 1, 2012 - Ok, it makes sense. And what now? What's the plan? Criticizing is not hard, solving problems is harder.
Rokas84 Says:
May 2, 2012 - I'm just going to say that - this guy is fucking high on cocaine!
FreeScience Says:
May 2, 2012 - "Pull the strings!"
rubiko4U Says:
May 14, 2012 - So if we stop buying things poor people around the world will somehow become less poor? If i don't drink coffee at Starbucks anymore the Guatemalan children will somehow be happier and have more food on the tabel?
rubiko4U Says:
May 14, 2012 - I agree that over-consumeraization is bad, but if each of us do some small thing here, some small thing there, we can make a difference. A little bit charity there, some smal change in legislation here, fairer trade agreement with undeveloped country there and voila, look at the world today. Third world countries have 3X bigger GDP growth than us in the developed world.
MultiSmartass1 Says:
May 15, 2012 - "Buying green" and being green is still buying into the premises of and supporting capitslism and capitalist institutions.Eating organic and being green is as much a political act as a health and nutrition issue.However, the politics are flawed.What good is being ecologically correct if the same capitalistic power structures and institutions call the shots overall?It is the illusion of individual power, the semblence of "correct decision making".
unitedcyclists Says:
May 19, 2012 - Poland Spring on the table !!! NYC
phreakiphred Says:
May 27, 2012 - I love it! He is spot-on with his observation of "Green Capitalism/Consumerism" Barack Hussein Obama and his sycophants use the same guilt mindfuck on "other than blacks," e.g., White Folk.
kokopelli314 Says:
Feb 11, 2012 - It's interesting that both top comments are self important rants.