Weekends: Slavoj Žižek on Biden, Race, and What It Will Take to Stop the Pandemic

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🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from January 16, 2021.

We’re talking about the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and its effects on the prison population, what Biden’s spending proposal does and doesn’t include, and we’ll hear from Slavoj Žižek on what it will take to end the pandemic.

Žižek is a maverick philosopher and the author of over thirty books. He is also researcher at the the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts, international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London, global eminent scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, and global distinguished professor at New York University.

Read his essay in Jacobin: https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/slavoj-zizek-socialism-great-reset

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0:00.0	The Brothers and sisters comrades and friends welcome to another
0:20.0	addition Jacobin weekends I am your host Nando Vila my regular co-host
0:25.3	Anna Kasparian is off today so we have the lovely be talented the brilliant
0:30.4	Ariella Thornhill, how are you?
0:33.5	Pretty good Nando, thanks for having me.
0:35.4	It's nice to be back on weekends.
0:38.2	You know, you're returning co-host,
0:41.7	and it couldn't be a bigger pleasure for me to have you back.
0:46.0	Oh, thanks.
0:47.0	Yeah, I miss Anna but I'll see her next week.
0:50.0	Absolutely.
0:51.0	And you know, we have a great show for you guys today. We have
0:54.0	Stavo Jijek who's going to come and talk to us about all the stuff that's going on.
0:58.6	We're going to have some fun with them. Are you excited?
1:01.6	We'll cover everything.
1:03.0	I want to ask him if you watched Wonder Woman 1984.
1:06.0	I'm curious what he thinks about.
1:07.0	Yeah, I need to get his take on that.
1:09.0	You know, it's been panned as this like absolute feminist flop, but maybe there's some hidden message there that
1:15.3	that he can glean out for us.
1:17.6	Feminist flop is my stripper name. Now Ariel, what do you make of all the stuff that's going on? What do you, what's your, what's your general
1:28.4	thing? We talked, we had a whole, our whole show last week was dedicated to like what was going on in the news with the stuff in the
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