[2], Peterson has been seen as misusing the term postmodernism, referring to postmodern philosophy, as a stand-in term for the far-right and antisemitic Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory. Aspen Ideas Festival: From the Barricades of the Culture Wars Transcript Transcripts 2018-09-25T15:05:00-04:00. Highlights of the "debate of the century": Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek In Stalinism, precisely they were not kept apart, while already in Ancient Greece they knew they had to be kept apart, which is why the popular way was even combined with lottery often. He did voice support for free education and universal health care as necessary for people to reach their potentials and pointed to the economic success of China, a quasi-capitalist system without democracy. Hundreds of millions raised from poverty into middle class existence. I mean primarily so called popularly neural-link, the direct link between our brain and digital machines, and then brains among themselves. [, : Thank you. His [16][17] iek was also critical of the multiculturalist liberals who espouse identity politics and that Western countries should rather fix the situation in immigrants' home countries than accept them. things. Can we even imagine how the fragile balance of our earth functions and in what unpredictable ways geo-engineering can disturb it? As the debate ostensibly revolved around comparing capitalism to Marxism, Peterson spent the majority of his 30-minute introduction assailing The Communist Manifesto, in fact coming up with 10 reasons against it. At least Marxism is closed off now that Marx I was surprised (and a bit disappointed) that Peterson didn't seem more Not only are we not allowed cheap excuses for not doing our duty, duty itself should not serve as an excuse. If we compare with Trump with Bernie Sanders, Trump is a post-modern politician at its purist while Sanders is rather an old fashion moralist. Peterson Zizek Debate Transcript.docx - Happiness: The controversial thinkers debated happiness, capitalism and Marxism in Toronto. The title of the debate was "Happiness: Capitalism v. Marxism." The structure of the debate was that each participant presented a thirty-minute introduction followed by a series of brief ten-minute responses to one another. They didnt understand what is happening to them with military defeat, economic crisis, what they perceived as moral decay, and so on. They can develop into a permanent obsession sustained by obstacles that demand to be overcome in short, into a properly metaphysical passion that preserves the biologically rhythm, like endlessly prolonging satisfaction in courtly love, engaging in different perversions and so on and so on. A New World Order is emerging, a world of peaceful co-existence of civilisations, but in what way does it function? I wanted to know that too! Id like the share the debate with a hearing impaired friend. [12][13], The debate was divided into two thirty-minute introductions from each participant, followed by shorter ten-minute responses and time at the end for additional comments and answers to questions posed by the moderator, Stephen J. So, its still yes, biologically conditioned sexuality, but it is if I may use this term transfunctionalised, it becomes a moment of a different cultural logic. One of the most stupid wisdoms and theyre mostly stupid is An enemy is just a story whose story you have not heard. The Church of England is debating if believers should stop using gendered language when talking about God. something wrong was said therein, you ought to engage the content rather than Incidentally, so that you will not think that I do not know what I am talking about, in Communist countries those in power were obsessed with expanded reproduction, and were not under public control, so the situation was even worse. What happened to Peterson after his debate with Zizek? - Quora your opponent's ideas. Peterson and Zizek Debate - transcribed by John Li - [email protected] - 916 623 5512 - https://chicago.academia.edu/JohnLi - // I used both voice to text software and then a manual read through - there are still plenty of transcription errors I haven't caught and corrected (I didn't expect this to come out to be over 20 pages and how If there is no such authority in nature, lobsters may have hierarchy, undoubtedly, but the main guy among them does not have authority in this sense. They both wanted the same thing: capitalism with regulation, which is what every sane person wants. If we learned anything from psychoanalysis, its that we humans are very creative in sabotaging our pursuit of happiness. What qualifies them to pass a judgement in such a delicate matter? 'Crustacean Jung v Cocaine Hegel': Zizek-Peterson debate - RT They play the victim as much as their enemies. Studies suggest that meditation can quiet the restless brain. The Petersoniek debate, officially titled Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism, was a debate between the Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson (a clinical psychologist and critic of Marxism) and the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj iek (a psychoanalyst and Hegelian) on the relationship between Marxism, capitalism, and happiness. What I Learned at the 'Debate' Between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj iek iek was less a cognizant thinker and more a pathological sacred cow tipper while Peterson was a bard for the. Marxism: Zizek/Peterson: Official Video - YouTube Zizek also pinpointed white liberal multiculturalism as the reason for the Lefts current political woes. It's quite interesting, but it's not Both rejected happiness as a primary goal for individuals and societies. If we are left to ourselves, if everything is historically conditioned and relative, then there is nothing preventing us from indulging in our lowest tendencies. so that ultimately the worst thing that can happen is to get what we We are never just instruments of some higher cause. Ideology, Logos & Belief with Transliminal Media . El denominado "Debate del siglo" entre el filsofo y socilogo esloveno Slavoj iek y el psiclogo canadiense Jordan Peterson, fue uno de los eventos intelectuales de mayor trascendencia del ltimo tiempo. They dont mention communism to legitimise their rule, they prefer the old Confucian notion of a harmonious society. His charge against Peterson's argument is followed with how he thinks Zizek He is now a, Professor at the Institute of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, and the Director of, the Birbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. Then once you factor in the notion that much of Marxism is . They argued whether capitalism or communism would be the best economic and political system. iek is also defined, and has been for years, by his contempt for postmodern theory and, by extension, the more academic dimensions of political correctness. What I Learned at the 'Debate' Between Jordan Peterson and - Vice Elements of a formal debate. Other than that, multiple commentators (one, two) pointed that the "Debate He said that belief in God can legitimize the terror of those who claim to act on behalf of God. live commentary is quite funny. If I visit your debate with Jordan Peterson it's on YouTube I felt you won that debate, and it's striking to me, the discussion between 1 hour 10 minutes and 1 hour 18 minutes. What appears as its excesses its regulatory zeal is I think an impotent reaction that masks the reality of a defeat. causes (from Donald Trump to migrants). Its not just that in spite of all our natural and cultural differences the same divine sparks dwells in everyone. Should we then drop egalitarianism? But there is nonetheless the prospect of a catastrophe here. Below is the transcript of Zizeks introductory statement. Who could? more disjointed. If the academic left is all-powerful, they get to indulge in their victimization. To cite this article: Ania Lian (2019): The Toronto Debate: Jordan Peterson and Slavoj iek on Ethics and Happiness, The European Legacy, DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2019.1616901 Most of the attacks on me are from left-liberals, he began, hoping that they would be turning in their graves even if they were still alive. Through this renouncing of their particular roots, multi-cultural liberals reserve for themselves the universal position: gracefully soliciting others to assert their particular identify. And sure, the level of the discussion might have been unappealing to all the Is such a change a utopia? Freedom and responsibility hurt they require an effort, and the highest function of an authentic master is to literally to awake in us to our freedom. And, in the new afterword, Bell offers a bracing perspective of contemporary Western societies, revealing the crucial cultural fault lines we face as the 21st century is here. He is a dazzling. China in the last decades is arguably the greatest economic success story in human history. Credits for this section should go to the hard work of Xiao Ouyang and Shunji Ukai //, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rUhYdqB2Jh7CU5Le0XgktKaoXQmnTdbv0-_kE5BQL6Q/edit?usp=sharing, Thank you so much for this, I had trouble understanding Zizek's pronunciation of the book on Christ's Atheism on the cross. Weeks before the debate began, I already saw many similarities between Zizek and Peterson, such as their views on struggle, their stance against political correctness, and the problem on ideology. From todays experience, we should rather speak to Steven Weinbergs claim that while without religion good people would have been doing good things and bad people bad things, only religion can make good people do bad things. How jelly-like bodies help sea creatures survive extreme conditions, How eccentric religions were born in 19th-century America, Land of paradoxes: the inner and outer Iran with Delphine Minoui. On the Zizek-Peterson 'debate' - Medium Postmodernism: History and Diagnosis Transcript Dr. Jordan Peterson 2019-05-17T08:28:01-04:00. We will probably slide towards apocalypse, he said. Peterson and Zizek Debate - transcribed by John Li - [email protected] - 916 623 5512 - https://chicago.academia.edu/JohnLi - // I used both voice to text software and then a manual read through - there are still plenty of transcription errors I havent caught and corrected (I didnt expect this to come out to be over 20 pages and how Petersons (native speaker of English) has been the harder one to transcribe. "If you have a good theory, forget about the reality. Hegels motto Evil resides in the gaze which sees evil everywhere fully applies here. The twentieth century left was defined by its opposition to the truth fundamental tendencies of modernity: the reign of capital with its aggressive market competition, the authoritarian bureaucratic state power. In typical Zizek fashion, The statement has some interesting ideas though, including the statement that A Debate Between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj iek in Toronto | City Journal Some idea make a reappearance, other are newly developed, but it's by its protagonists. Peterson retreats into the integrity of character and Judeo-Christian values as he sees them. With no biogenetic technologies, the creation of a new man, in the literal sense of changing human nature, becomes a realistic prospect. Community Video : Free Community : Free Download, Borrow and - Archive Capitalism threatens the commons due to its I have included my method and aims in a Note at the end of the transcript. Before you say, its a utopia, I will tell you just think about in what way the market already functions today. At one point, he made a claim that human hierarchies are not determined by power because that would be too unstable a system, and a few in the crowd tittered. The debate itself was framed as a free-spirited competition, "Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism" two ideologies enter the ring, and in a world where we are free to think for ourselves, the true ideology would emerge victorious as 'truth.' His comments on one of the greatest feats of human rhetoric were full of expressions like You have to give the devil his due and This is a weird one and Almost all ideas are wrong. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM35zlrE01k. Globalnews.ca your source for the latest news on presidential debate. This is how refugees are created. his remarks, he starts telling a Slovenian joke, then after the first sentence [19] Harrison Fluss and Sam Miller of Jacobin reported that Peterson made many factual errors, such as misunderstanding the labour theory of value, incorrectly associating Marx broadly with identity politics, and denying the existence of a Marxist philosophy of nature. Peterson was an expert on this subject, at least. The experience that we have of our lives from within, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves, in order to account for what we are doing is and this is what I call ideology fundamentally a lie. But these two towering figures of different disciplines and domains share more than a. commitment to thinking itself. Jordan Peterson and Slavoj iek: The debate. | by Ulysses Alvarez interesting because of it. I'd say his criticism is News About Presidential Debate - DEBATE JKW He's the sort of aging quitter we all hope to never be. His12 Rules For Lifeis a global bestseller and his lectures and podcasts are followed by millions around the world. So, a pessimist conclusion, what will happen? Studebaker concludes that "Peterson didn't prepare. First by admitting we are in a deep mess. I see equality as a space for creating differences and yes, why not, even different more appropriate hierarchies. They were making in the usual way, but the cheese got rotten and infected, smelling bad, and they said, oh my god, look, we have our own original French cheese. This one is from the Guardian. He gave a minor history of the French critical theorists who transposed categories of class oppression for group oppression in the 1960s. That snapped him back into his skill set: self-defense. On Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson: Nature, Culture, and the The very premise of tonight's event is that we all participate in the life of, thought. Why do I still cling to this cursed name when I know and fully admit that the 20th century Communist project in all its failure, how it failed, giving birth to new forms of murderous terror. The size and scope of his fame registers more or less exactly the loathing for identity politics in the general populace, because it certainly isnt on the quality of his books that his reputation resides. Again, the wager of democracy is that and thats the subtle thing not against competence and so on, but that political power and competence or expertise should be kept apart. They are not limited to the mating season. [2][16] The monologue itself was less focused as it touched many topics and things like cultural liberalism, Nazism, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and xenophobia, among others;[2][15] and against the expectation of the debate format did not defend Marxism. what the debate ended up being. Or, they were making wine in the usual way, then something went wrong with fermentation and so they began to produce champagne and so on. A renunciation of pleasure can easily turn in pleasure of renunciation itself. Peterson and Zizek Debate | PDF | Capitalism | Karl Marx - Scribd History and diagnosis transcript dr. Peterson discussing "happiness, capitalism vs. Extracto del debate realizado el 19 04 19 entre el psiclogo clnico y crtico cultural jordan peterson y el filsofo y psicoanalista slavoj . This page was last edited on 12 August 2019, at 11:41. Scientific data seems, to me at least, abundant enough. Neither can face the reality or the future. The other hated communism but thought that capitalism possessed inherent contradictions. And here applies the same logic to Christ himself. ", "Video: Analizirali Smo 'Filozofsku Debatu Stoljea': Pred prepunom dvoranom umove 'ukrstili' iek i Peterson, debata ostavila mlak dojam", "The Jordan PetersonSlavoj iek debate was good for something", "Why Conservatives Get Karl Marx Very, Very Wrong", "What I Learned at the 'Debate' Between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj iek", "How Zizek Should Have Replied to Jordan Peterson", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Petersoniek_debate&oldid=1142515270, This page was last edited on 2 March 2023, at 21:02. You know, its not very often that you see a country's, largest theatre packed for an intellectual debate, but that's what we're all here for tonight. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! (PDF) Verfhrung - Kapitalismus - Academia.edu Zizek and Peterson went head-to-head recently at a debate in Toronto. The wager of democracy is that we should not give all power to competent experts, because precisely Communists in power who, legitimise this rule, by posing as fake experts. And I also think this may be critical to some of you there is a problem with capitalism here for the simple reasons that its managers not because of their evil nature, but thats the logic of capitalism care to extend self-reproduction and environmental consequences are simply not part of the game. They needed enemies, needed combat, because in their solitudes, they had so little to offer.. Can a giant lobster analogy ever replace a sense of humour? Although even the Dalai Lama justifies Tibetan Buddhism in Western terms in the full suite of happiness and the avoidance of pain, happiness as a goal of our life is a very problematic notion. Peterson had trapped himself into a zero-sum game, Zizek had opened up a. manifesto, which he'd re-read for the occasion. [1][10][11] The debate was also broadcast on Croatian Radiotelevision the following week. It also helps to put Zizek's ideas and role in modern political discussion in . Slavoj iek, psychoanalytic philosopher, cultural critic, and Hegelian Marxist. It's hard not to crack up when out of time for [1] They debated about the merits of regulated capitalism. Explain The Format And Rules Of A Formal Debate. - DEBATE JKW Billed as "The Debate I think a simple overview of the situation points in the opposite direction. She observed in a recent critical note that in the years since the movement began it deployed an unwavering obsession with the perpetrators. So, how to act? Again, even if there if the reported incidents with the refugees there are great problems, I admit it even if all these reports are true, the popularist story about them is a lie. Here refugees are created. The recent debate between Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson lived up to the hype. matters: meaning, truth, freedom. Aquella vez me parecieron ms slidos los argumentos del primero. Christ was justified by the fact of being Gods son not by his competencies or capacities, as Kierkegaard put it Every good student of theology can put things better than Christ. Get counterintuitive, surprising, and impactful stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday. Inters mundial en el "debate del siglo" entre los - Infobae The Zizek Peterson Debate 18 May 2019 Having previously enjoyed and written about both Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson, I was interested to learn they'd have a debate. Presidential debate 2020 RECAP What happened in the first election from www.the-sun.com. Zizek was hard to follow in his prepared statement, he becomes List of journal articles on the topic 'Marxism in politics, economy and philosophy / Criticism'. Somehow hectoring mobs have managed to turn him into an icon of all they are not. Die Analyse dieser Figur findet mit starkem Bezug zur Etablierung Privacy Policy. Let me now briefly deal with in a friendly way I claim with what became known sorry for the irony as the lobster topic. Journal articles: 'Marxism in politics, economy and philosophy April 20, 2019. The Hidden Argument in the Zizek/Peterson Debate, From a Competitive Debator | by Timothy Clark | Dialogue & Discourse | Medium 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. It projects, or transposes, some immanent antagonism however you call it, ambiguity, tension of our social economic lives onto an external cause, in exactly the same way. When I was younger to give you a critical example there was in Germany with obsession with the dying of forests with predictions that in a couple of decades Europe would be without forests. All such returns are today a post-modern fake. Zizek expressed his agreement with Petersons critique of PC culture, pointing out that he is attacked as much by the Left that he supposedly represents as the right. Far from pushing us too far, the Left is gradually losing its ground already for decades. The rest of the debate was (if memory serves) also interesting, but it gets even and our The very liberal gaze with demonizes Trump is also evil because it ignores how its own failures opened up the space for Trumps type of patriotic populism. That the debate will be live-streamed and more than 1,400 people have already dropped $14.95 for. There can be few thingsI thinknow more, urgent and necessary in an age of reactionary partisan allegiance and degraded civil discourse than real, thinking about hard questions. Nothing Is a Greater Waste of Time Than the Planned Debate Between Competencies for what? I'd say this reminds me a lot of what I've seen from him Canad. This is again not a moral reproach. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. It felt like that. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Web november 12, 2022 advertisement the nigerian factcheckers . He acknowledged that unrestricted capitalism can cause its own problems and tends to make the rich richer, but to him the poor are also better off financially under such an arrangement. the cold war, and it would seem to me that understanding the ideological roots But this divine spark enables us to create what Christians call holy ghost or holy spirit a community which hierarchic family values are at some level, at least, abolished.
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