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Slavoj Žižek and Alex O’Connor Live in London

Alex O'Connor | June 6, 2026



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– VIDEO NOTES

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian neo-Marxist philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual.

This event took place in London on the 9th November 2025.

– LINKS

Buy Slavoj’s book, “Quantum History: A New Materialist Philosophy”: https://amzn.to/4vtd301

– TIMESTAMPS

0:00 – Introducing Slavoj Žižek and Alex O’Connor
1:38 – I Am Unfortunately Still Alive
2:30 – What is Christian Atheism
18:13 – Can Political Terrors Be Theologically Explained?
23:29 – Why It’s Important to Read Religious Texts Closely
35:07 – Is Judas the True Hero of Christianity?
40:51 – The Fall of Adam and Eve and Quantum Mechanics
53:45 – How Do We Stop Leftist Infighting?
01:12:21 – The Alienation of Middle-Class Leftists
01:14:34 – Finding Peace with Death
01:19:57 – How Far is Alex Willing to Go into Skepticism?
1:22:30 – Slavoj Refuses to Leave the Stage

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  2. @RommelBenedickLim

    June 6, 2026 at 12:53 am

    Well, from the beginning, the universalization of English project, like Esperanto and Latin and the universalization of the Catholic Church, was a dangerous and risky move by the English speaking countries. Although it is masked in “globalization”, and not really superiority of the English language, its true color is “sameness of all human beings” and not differences. Again, as we have experienced in the past 20 years or so, since its birth and hatching, is hell paved with good intentions. This “sameness of all human beings” is too utopian and impossible even for other English speakers, the Republicans in particular.

  3. @RommelBenedickLim

    June 6, 2026 at 12:53 am

    Another big issue is sexual resistance and sexual rejection especially among females? Sexual attraction has already been solved largely. Again, humans thinking. Is it good or bad? It is the reason why women were enslaved and 2nd class citizens. Epstein.

  5. @arturzathas499

    June 6, 2026 at 12:53 am

    been scrolling comments to see if anyone picked up on his contradictions regarding his how he likes to view christianity, but its full of either he is deep or he is all gibberish.

  15. @vyli1

    June 6, 2026 at 12:53 am

    Why does anybody want to listen to anything this guy has to say? He has nothing of value to say. Or he never manages to get there.

  19. @Focus-an-flow

    June 6, 2026 at 12:53 am

    I need to conume this as an audio podcast. Žižek's constant nose rubbing and wiping, then rubbing his fingers through his eyebrows and hair is just making me gip.

  22. @igor-korobitsyn

    June 6, 2026 at 12:53 am

    "…that's how all radical theologians read… Sorry… x̴̛̱̫͍q̸̡̻͚̊h̸̜̹͂̾̈x̸͕̜͉̒̊̂k̷̤͈̤̐̈́͝q̴̱̬͓̊̿ Read the death of Christ"

  28. @mestar12345

    June 6, 2026 at 12:53 am

    It really doesn't matter what you ask this guy, he goes on the same nonsensical rants, and I think in his mind he is actually doing a stand-up comedy routine.

    Also, he tries too hard to impress you with his references, trying to demonstrate how smart he is. He is not.

  29. @AcidBuu

    June 6, 2026 at 12:53 am

    Philosophy is good for the spirit. I'm amazed how it seems like Žižek takes puzzle pieces from many different puzzles and keeps making new ones.

  33. @nikolademitri731

    June 6, 2026 at 12:53 am

    I’m way late to this, but I greatly enjoyed it. Would love to hear/see you too with more time. I did cringe at his last point, though, on disagreeing with Marx. I hate to be that kind of guy, but it’s a frankly privileged position, though more importantly it’s naive. Interpretation VS Change is a false dilemma, as a work by philosophers, scientists, or otherwise. The change itself happening, no matter our actions.

    Marx’s point was not that the philosopher should avoid interpretation, and merely focus on change, which hardly would even make sense looking at his work. The point is that the philosopher (and this includes the scientist as “natural philosopher” when Marx wrote this) should also be active in seeking to improve the material and social conditions humanity endures. Zizek’s rejection of even this, if he does indeed reject it, is a bit hypocritical given much of his work, but to be fair it also reflects on the admitted conservatism he harbors, for understandable reasons given his youth. That’s not really an excuse to ignore that material change is still here, always, and its even more rapid today, and to reject our trying to steer it in a direction that’s more just, let alone survivable, is imo bizarre. This not only can, but MUST be done while working on interpreting the world, lest we become reactionary in our approach.

    It also strikes me as slightly ahistorical, or at least unfairly selective, to focus on the 20th century as “we tried to change too much”.. That same rapid change was the reality of the 19th century, and slightly less radically (only slightly) of the 18th century. It was a massive part of the context in which young Marx, only a couple years before the manifesto, penned those words.

    Importantly, Marx didn’t publish them. In Marx’s lifetime, his Thesis on Feuerbach remained unknown, with Engels publishing the text a few years after his death. I have always at least partly understood this as Marx’s being a bit dissatisfied with the work, while also considering it unfinished. There’s insight in the text, but I think it unfair to not accept that Marx didn’t see it fit to publish, and so it’s worth questioning how his thought changed, or how he may have elaborated.

    Anyway, I’m going on waaayyyy too much in response to what may have been no more than a quip at the very end, but I think it matters to push back a bit. Zizek is a fascinating and brilliant (though I struggle with much of the Lacanian stuff), but his analysis is often riddled with contradiction.. Not that this is much of a problem to the Hegelian, but for the sake of humanity, some of these things we have to do more than just interpret. One needn’t be an anti-capitalist, and/or Marxist, to understand this.

  37. @elbratzo

    June 6, 2026 at 12:53 am

    i remember watching alex's early stuff when i was watching christopher hitchens debates on youtube in the wake of the new atheist movement (which has become rrrreeeally strange today) and its weird to see him now in conversation with many of the people that have touched my life in an academical context.

    this stuff used to be made in a bedroom.

  40. @bdchancer

    June 6, 2026 at 12:53 am

    The most profound existential and theological question I'm left with after that is…who would win in an argument between Zizek and Chuck Norris

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