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Originally Posted by demonrail666
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there was also a hardtalk interview with badiou. this kind of stuff is exactly what my license fee that i don't pay should go towards. well, not really since all the fancy graphics/music/studio stuff is a waste of cash. but the actual interview was good, in that zizek came across very well and sackur's questions highlighted the conservatism of blind faith in liberal paraliamentarianism. his resistance was useful to see because it highlighted, to me at least, how entrenched emotionally we are in certain values, and how we instantly equate anything outside of them as immoral totalitarian facism.
as i've been posting i've been listening to this, which is his latest available online talk i think.
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2009...alyptic-times/
the hardtalk interview and the talk i just linked to aren't the best introduction to zizek.
get on amazon and buy some of his books, they are pretty cheap right now.
and go to
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMariborchan this channel and pick one you like the sound of