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Slavoj Zizek had a great talk with a talk show host from the Netherlands precisely about this matter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIPjmmmh_os https://www.y

• dredmorbius 10y ago
  An 80-minute talk. Zizek tends to wander a bit: Slavoj Žižek + Paul Holdengräber "Surveillance and whistleblowers" - International Authors' Stage Det Kongelige Bibliotek 71,767 views Published on May 19, 2014 I'M WATCHING YOU PART 1 - part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZiFWZpYds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZiFWZpYds 4:48 Danish pornography 5:40 There is no harmony in the univers 8:44 David Lynch and the crawling excess of life 11:17 God underestimated us 19:40 Why do people read Stephen Hawking? 21:14 Surveillance and whistleblowers 22:40 The most dangerous freedom 30:40 The necessity of vulgar humor 35:24 The public persona 37:45 The connection between Pussy Riot and Snowden 41:58 Never allow intellectuals in power 47:30 Julian Assange, a spy for the people 53:46 There are only two different kinds of persons in the world 56:38 Right wing wisdom 57:39 People only want the appearance of freedom 1:01:51 The complicity of liberal tolerant capitalism 1:07:42 The European dream 1:13:50 Unjustified paranoia The Slovenian star philosopher Slavoj Žižek in the first of two conversations on surveillance with the popular and charismatic interviewer Paul Holdengräber, director of Public Programs at the New York Public Library. The Black Diamond, The Royal Library, Copenhagen 18 May 2014 Video: http://www.videoakademiet.dk http://www.videoakademiet.dk