Slavoj Žižek: When is a shark not a shark?
Decoding the Gurus
Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2024
⏱️ 153 minutes
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Summary
Join Matt and Chris as they plunge into the heady mental universe of Slavoj Žižek, the Slovenian philosopher known for his eclectic and provocative ideas. The duo parses Žižek's 'unconventional' takes on ideology, consumerism, and revolutionary theory, peppered with his playful movie criticism of films like Jaws and a Clockwork Orange and even a few that he hasn't even watched.
We delve into snuffle-laced discussions of transgressive acts, revolutionary politics, moderate conservative communism, consumerist psychology, and musings on whether Jaws is really about a shark. Throughout all Žižek's dramatic flair is shining through, but is he actually as provocative and hated as he likes to suggest? Matt and Chris have some thoughts...
Expect to reconsider everything you thought you knew, listen to some edgy book blurbs, and finally collapse in a puddle with the deconstruction of your ideology.
Links
- Novara Media: Our World Is Coming To An End | Aaron Bastani Meets Slavoj Žižek | Downstream
- The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) - Slavoj Žižek
- Jacobin: Žižek’s Left-Wing Case for Christian Atheism
- Philosophize This- Episode #196 - The Improbable Slavoj Zizek - Pt. 1 (Also, there are three other Žižek episodes in this series!)
- Article on the speech Žižek gave at the Frankfurt Book Fair
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| 0:00.0 | And the Oh, Hello and |
| 0:25.0 | welcome to Decoding the Guru's the podcast |
| 0:28.0 | where an anthropologist and a psychologist listen to the greatest minds the world has to offer and we try to understand what they're talking about. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm Professor Matt Brown with me, the Associate Professor Chris Kavanaugh. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm a psychologist, he's an anthropologist. |
| 0:40.5 | I'm beaming at you from Queensland, Australia. He is coming at you from Tokyo, Japan. How |
| 0:49.0 | exotic are we, Chris? Aren't we exciting? In the podcast world we're incredibly exotic. |
| 0:56.0 | That's it. |
| 0:58.0 | The most diverse white meals that you'll come across and my hands white my hair's |
| 1:06.3 | white his hair is blackish my skin is bronzed his is pallid |
| 1:12.2 | is he could heaps the diversity going on? |
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| 1:45.2 | oh I didn't think they looked like that or Matt looks like what I imagine Chris looked like and vice. I don't really get it. I don't I don't understand what people are expecting but yes so you can you can see your fears should you wish to. |
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