[D66] Slavoj Žižek: Object a and The Function of Ideology.

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Slavoj Žižek. Object a and The Function of Ideology. 2012

Published on Nov 5, 2012 by egsvideo
‪http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and author, talking about 
the structure of belief and the mediation of desire. In this lecture 
Slavoj Žižek discusses his polemic with Badiou on the notion of 
subtraction as a political and philosophical category, object a as cause 
of desire, the event, inconsistency in the symbolic order and the 
function of the master signifier in relationship to Jacques Lacan, Alain 
Badiou, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière and Charles Darwin 
focusing on singular universality, the supernumerary element, 
Zapatistas, evolution, minimal difference, the point, ecology, nature, 
love, and generic sets. Public open lecture for the students and faculty 
of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies 
department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012. Slavoj Žižek.