THE MODERN DIOGENES: A GUIDE TO SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
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Sources
Primary Sources of “The Courage of Hopelessness” and “Event” by Zizek were used
Lightman Quote: [http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/legacy/papers/lightman.html](http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/legacy/papers/lightman.html)
How To Read Zizek: [https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-to-read-zizek/](https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-to-read-zizek/)
His Tics: [https://www.douban.com/note/538088621/](https://www.douban.com/note/538088621/)
Philosophy: [https://iep.utm.edu/zizek/#Ha](https://iep.utm.edu/zizek/#Ha)
Transgender Article: [https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-sexual-is-political/](https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-sexual-is-political/)
Transgender Article II: [https://life.spectator.co.uk/articles/transgender-dogma-is-naive-and-incompatible-with-freud/](https://life.spectator.co.uk/articles/transgender-dogma-is-naive-and-incompatible-with-freud/)
Criticism on Trans Article: [https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/zizeks-transgender-trouble/](https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/zizeks-transgender-trouble/)
Response to Criticism: [https://zizek.uk/a-reply-to-my-critics-re-the-sexual-is-political/](https://zizek.uk/a-reply-to-my-critics-re-the-sexual-is-political/)
General Critique: [https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/10/what-is-zizek-for](https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/10/what-is-zizek-for)
Clips were taken from “Pervert’s Guide To Ideology”
@MichaelBranes8400
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
CONTROLLED OPPOSITION TO IDEALISM
@Smason432
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
Zizek is brilliant, but I can’t understand 90% of his message because of his thick accent and the spit flying diagonally like bullets ricocheting in my head top cutting my dome like a triangle
@mr.clutch9548
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
Soviet era Yugoslavia??????
@joker28666
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
12:30, 5 years later and he might have been right about that after all (given the current political climate)
@lunar5643
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
im so weirdly infatuated with this man… he's so fucking weird I can't get enough of it
@debarghyabanerjee6824
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
9:05 When did furries become sacred??
Edit: i just realized, when said in the context you provided, being ''it is outside of political contestations''… shi- you might be right 💀
@RizzoElMojado
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
Robocop is the best movie ever made
@gracjansocha2375
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
I want to see him in kcd3
@AltairEgo1
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
Why is Jordan Peterson up there? Also, this guy, a modern day Diogenes? I don't know. He's got some of the cynicism down, but if you always attempt to contradict yourself, how different are you really from a classic nihilist? You still haven't arrived at anything substantive. Unless you're taking the socratic ideology and just turn it on its head. But even Diogenes had some conviction of his own beliefs.
@Lego-Lodge
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
Isn't a philosopher who proposes no solutions while criticising everything, the best type of philosopher. Since ultimately, nobody can truly "do anything about" anything, so the best thing is to have someone radical yet intelligent tell you why many things are bad, and you can draw whatever you want to draw from all of that yourself.
@advancedmicrosystems4658
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
Does anyone know which music is playing in the beginning?
@leontrotsky6990
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
The more the philosopher is mad and twisted in his mind the more his philosophical thought is sophisticated
@watrvapr
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
Despite his chaotic nature and beliefs, I think there’s valuable knowledge in some of his books. I’m really enjoying reading Event.
@jessicabauer7958
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
Zizek is like a drunk guy in a pub, ranting about politics but with a degree and a strong obsession with Hegel. there is as little bit of Zizek in all of us
@yourdadeatingacroissant
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
What the hell does even plagiarizing your own work even mean…?
@Saint-Nova
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
Zizek is a blathering moron
@kristianna9969
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
he’s just a guy 😭😂
@colinleung-t6c
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
He’s mine. Stop making žižek mainstream 😢
@sujalchand764
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
Zizek is beyond win and loss. But the great thing is he is self aware of his flaws.
@katlinzarabrasic5217
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
This video is full of factual errors
@johnny_gossamer
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
imagine comparing this man to diogenes…..diogenes despised politics
@chirag-zn1ly
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
You forgot to analyze the sniff
@hectorvazquez5405
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
4:05 this made me lol so hard!
@robertchampeau6867
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
But he makes a living so welcome to 2025
@Aweirdbug
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
7:09 absolutely
@nightsblood
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
I feel like zizek (i can’t articulate well while speaking, my views make no sense and I offend random people without knowing about it)
@mimipipi120
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
He's the max evolution of an ENTP.
@michaelchen2718
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
13:52 LMAOOOOO CRAZYYYY
@michaelchen2718
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
12:40 first of all, crazy. second of all, 4 years later now and his views have most definitely changed!
@michaelchen2718
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
I love this man.
@michaelchen2718
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
3:30 man, abercrombie & fitch just ain't the same anymore
@GungaGaLunga777
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
The great thing about philosophy religion and ideologies are their infinite capacity for utter nonsense and complete bullshit.
@GungaGaLunga777
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
Mmm yeah, the new left failed horrifically by 2025. Tyranny of greed won once again. Oops.
@ruvstof
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
Thank you! This is excellent.
@Northern_Mystic
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
Zizek is a slob, with sloppy thinking.
@redminute6605
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
I don’t want to be disrespectful to Zizek, but I just see him as someone who suffers of some kind of dissociation, and therefore cannot offer consistency when analysing topics he’s approaching: I don’t think there’s a meaning that is being carried behind his inconsistency and conflicts, yet I can see how the consumer of his thought can find meaning provoked by (while not derivative from) Zizek’s thought, which is likely a product of the ambivalence of said thought.
@acertainserpent
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
yugoslavia was basically nothing like ussr tho
@Anti-Identity-Entity
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 pm
i tend to love Zizek for always taking us on a fun, thought provoking ride that drops us off precisely right where we started, perhaps just more confused. I think every thinking person has a little Yugoslavian tweaker somewhere in their mind to remind us we don’t actually know sh*t, but it’s probably still worth thinking about these things anyway. Of all the little voices in my mind, I must admit he’s my favorite. As an added bonus he keeps the evil ones too confused and frustrated to have any real influence.
But no matter how many times I hear the voice say “put a poster of Stalin over your bed”, i have to draw the line somewhere… So instead i got a promo poster for “The View” and drew childish boobies on each of the hosts.
Philosophy!! Amiright??
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