r/zizek • u/Healthy_Yak7872 • 5d ago

Does anyone remember what lecture this point comes from?

I watched a zizek lecture on YouTube a while ago, I think he was either in conversation with a speaker or he was answering questions, and he outlined the way philosophers all misunderstood the philosophers they were studying who came before then, AND his point about using texts he hasn’t read/films he hasn’t watched in his own books.

Crucially, he talks about the experience of finally reading/watching these things and being profoundly disappointed by them and believing his own MISreading of them is superior.

I can find videos where he talks about the other points seperate ly, but I’m struggling to find again this specific video where he elucidates the final point altogether in one answer/statement.

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u/DisguisedPhoton 5d ago

I think he touches on this theme in a 2018 debate with Graham Harman (the proponent of object-oriented ontology), but I'm sure he repeats the same argument elsewhere

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u/Healthy_Yak7872 5d ago

Just rewatched the last hour of that, I found the but you were referring to. It’s good but the quote im thinking of is reslly good, he explicates why sometimes our misunderstanding of a book/film
Is better and truer to the geist of the thing than that actual thing itself is

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u/none_-_- 5d ago

zizek.org

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u/pjabtg 5d ago

If I had a nickel for every point Zizek makes in a lecture which I then cannot find.. 😭

I remember he mentioned a young German philosopher years ago, who I looked up and was brilliant.. a guy I cannot for the life of me find now

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u/Healthy_Yak7872 5d ago

Yeah, I’ve been rereading articles and rewatching YouTube vids tryna find this one, I have some vague memory he was addressing a lady sat to his left , possibly there was a guy on his right at the same time, might have been yanis varoufakis

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u/pjabtg 4d ago

I definitely remember the point you’re referring to. Of course, he makes some points again and again

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u/Healthy_Yak7872 4d ago

I resorted to just emailing him to confirm, in an email, that he did in fact say that. If he replies im gonna quote and cite his email hahah

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u/Savings_Swordfish_56 1d ago

Not sure if you've found it yet, it's in one of his speeches regarding neuralink:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWkL0QwLllw at 7:34