#40 Slavoj Žižek - Sex, Drugs, and Commodity Fetishism
Within Reason
Alex O'Connor
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian-born political philosopher and cultural critic. He was described by British literary theorist, Terry Eagleton, as the “most formidably brilliant” recent theorist to have emerged from Continental Europe. (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Within Reason. |
| 0:01.7 | My name is Alex O'Connor. |
| 0:03.7 | Why, when somebody criticizes Stalin, |
| 0:06.4 | and another person says, |
| 0:07.8 | you can't criticize the leader, |
| 0:09.7 | does the second man get sent to the Gulag first. What has the Barbie film got to do with the Marxist |
| 0:16.0 | concept of commodity fetishism? Is Donald Trump best thought of as a postmodernist? |
| 0:24.1 | These are just some of the questions discussed by my guest today. Slavo Jijek is an impossible man to define, but what I do |
| 0:30.1 | know is that he is one of the most well-known, well-loved, and idiosyncratic European philosophers |
| 0:35.7 | alive today. |
| 0:37.2 | I've seen him speak before and even once met him in a canteen of a Welsh literary festival |
| 0:42.1 | where I found him wandering around and |
| 0:44.0 | speaking with its attendees, but sitting down with him for a long-form conversation |
| 0:48.2 | was a different pleasure altogether. Talking for the better part of two hours with him today was one of the most unique |
| 0:54.4 | experiences that I've had during the production of now 40 episodes of this |
| 0:58.7 | podcast. I hope it will provide an equally unique listening experience for you. |
| 1:04.0 | And so I give to you in all his Slovenian glory Slavo Shishik. |
| 1:08.2 | Can I ask you a stupid thing? What's the point? Why do you have the world map behind you? |
| 1:17.0 | I have the world map behind me because I'm quite uncreative when it comes to designing YouTube backgrounds. I actually usually |
| 1:24.3 | film with a with a bookcase behind me of my collection of books including |
| 1:30.7 | previous podcast guests but I'm beginning to feel that there's something |
| 1:34.8 | a little bit pretentious about filming sat in front of books all the time. I'm not sure. You know what I mean because there are people who actually read the books and there are people who just sort of use books as a background and I'm trying not to give that impression. |
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