The Hidden Argument in the Zizek/Peterson Debate, From a Competitive Debator | by Timothy Clark | Dialogue & Discourse | Medium 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. This is why egalitarianism itself should never be accepted at its face value. However, this is not enough. He acknowledged that unrestricted capitalism can cause its own problems and tends to make the rich richer, but to him the poor are also better off financially under such an arrangement. For example, an example not from neo-conservatives. iek is also defined, and has been for years, by his contempt for postmodern theory and, by extension, the more academic dimensions of political correctness. The debate, titled "Happiness: Marxism vs. Capitalism," pitted Jordan Peterson against Slavoj iek, two of the West's reigning public intellectuals. ", Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window), Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window), Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window). I wanted to know that too! Maybe we should turn around a little bit Marxs famous thesis, in our new century we should say that maybe in the last century we tried all too fast to try the world. from the University of Paris VIII. Share Highlights of the debate of the century: Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek on Facebook, Share Highlights of the debate of the century: Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek on Twitter, Share Highlights of the debate of the century: Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek on LinkedIn, Subscribe for counterintuitive, surprising, and impactful stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday, Slavoj iek vs Jordan Peterson Debate Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism (Apr 2019), Why winning isnt the real purpose of arguing. semi-intentionally quite funny. Conservative thinkers claim that the origin of our crisis is the loss of our reliance on some transcendent divinity. Answer (1 of 5): Well, that 'debate' occurred in April of 2019. In totalitarian states, competencies are determined politically. Pity Jordan Peterson. The digitalisation of our brains opens up unheard of new possibilities of control. the cold war, and it would seem to me that understanding the ideological roots The experience that we have of our lives from within, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves, in order to account for what we are doing is and this is what I call ideology fundamentally a lie. Second yes, we should carry our burden and accept the suffering that goes with it. argument abbreviated: There are three necessary features which distinguish a bad Marx paper: The article also has a nice summary of Peterson's opening clear these are coherent thoughts from the same thinker. In this sense, the image of Donald Trump is also a fetish, the last thing a liberal sees before confronting actual social tensions. His father Joe iek was an economist and civil servant from the 2 Piano Mono - moshimo sound design. matters: meaning, truth, freedom. They returned to their natural subject: who is the enemy? The idea that people themselves should decide what to do about ecology sounds deep, but it begs an important question, even with their comprehension is no distorted by corporate interests. First, a brief introductory remark. April 20, 2019. Now, let me give you a more problematic example in exactly the same way, liberal critics of Trump and alt-right never seriously ask how our liberal society could give birth to Trump. His12 Rules For Lifeis a global bestseller and his lectures and podcasts are followed by millions around the world. I cannot but notice the [] Ippolit Belinski April 30, 2019 Videos. The people who laugh might do it that way, he replied. Good evening and welcome to the Sony Center for Performing Arts. Of course, we are also natural beings, and our DNA as we all know overlaps I may be wrong around 98% with some monkeys. Finally, the common space of humanity itself. And what about foreign interventions in Iraq and Syria, or by our proxies like Saudi Arabia in Yemen? For more information, please see our Are you also ready to affirm that Hitler was our enemy because his story was not heard? iek & Peterson Debate . Just remember the outcry against my critique of LGBT+ ideology, and Im sure that if the leading figures were to be asked if I were fit to stand for them, they would turn in their graves even if they are still alive. It was in this opening argument that Zizek effectively won the debate to the extent it was a debate at all. A debate speech format follows the below pattern. However, in place of charging a fee and in recognition of the work I put, in, I would strongly ask anybody who found extensive use of it to give a small donation of $5 or more to. ) You can find a transcript of it here. or a similar conservation organization. Egalitarianism often de facto means, I am ready to renounce something so that others will also not have it. White, left liberals love to denigrate their own culture and claim euro-centrism for our evils. Most of the attacks on me are from left-liberals, he began, hoping that they would be turning in their graves even if they were still alive. In this sense of playing with traditional values of mixing references to them with open obscenities, Trump is the ultimate post-modern president. Last night, Jordan Peterson and Slavoj iek debated each other at the Sony Centre in Toronto. Maybe that's why last night I finally caved and watched Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson take on Slovenian quasi-Marxist psychoanalyst and cultural theorist Slavoj Zizek. statement. We have to find some yardstick: In our daily lives, we pretend to desire things which we do not really desire, A good criticism is the one made by Benjamin Studebaker. this event had the possibility to reach a much wider audience. Zizek's conclusion is, in his words "pessimistic": we will continue to slide But even it its extreme form opening up our borders to the refugees, treating them like one of us they only provide what in medicine is called a symptomatic treatment. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! ", "Video: Analizirali Smo 'Filozofsku Debatu Stoljea': Pred prepunom dvoranom umove 'ukrstili' iek i Peterson, debata ostavila mlak dojam", "The Jordan PetersonSlavoj iek debate was good for something", "Why Conservatives Get Karl Marx Very, Very Wrong", "What I Learned at the 'Debate' Between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj iek", "How Zizek Should Have Replied to Jordan Peterson", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Petersoniek_debate&oldid=1142515270, This page was last edited on 2 March 2023, at 21:02. In our human universe, power, in the sense of exerting authority, is something much more mysterious, even irrational. The paper contains a long digression about all the reasons the Soviet Union was terrible. IQ, Politics, and the Left: A Conversation with Douglas Murray Transcript Nina Paley: Animator Extraordinaire Transcript Aspen Ideas Festival: From the Barricades of the Culture Wars Transcript But precisely due to the marketing, Instead they often engage in self-destructive behavior. Is there, in todays United States, really too much equality? Here is the original video extracted from https://www.jordanvsslavojdebate.com (livestream.com HLS source) using ffmpeg from Akamai CDN with the original audio and custom CC transcribed. The controversial thinkers debated happiness, capitalism and Marxism in Toronto. The solution is not for the rich Western countries to receive all immigrants, but somehow to try to change the situation which creates massive waves of immigration, and we are completely in this. In Peterson's defense, he did manage to stay much closer to the actual topic of the debate, while Zizek jumped wildly between a dizzying number of subjects. He also denied there is an inherent tendency under capitalism to mistreat the workers, stating you dont rise to a position of authority that is reliable in a human society primarily by exploiting other people. Overall, Peterson appeared to see capitalism as the best, though imperfect, economic model. Similarly, he's crusading against I've talked to (which, unfortunately were more fanboys than rigorous Peterson's opening remarks were disappointing even for his fans in the audience. Plus, the radical measures advocated by some ecologists can themselves trigger new catastrophes. iek is more or less a Gen X nostalgia act at this point, a living memento from a time when you would sit around the college bar and regale your fellow students about the time you saw that eastern European prof eating a couple of hot dogs in the street. your opponent's ideas. Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America. The Church of England is debating if believers should stop using gendered language when talking about God. The second reaction is global capitalism with a human face think about socially responsible corporate figures like Bill Gates and George Soros. please join me in welcoming to the stage Doctor Slavoj iek and Doctor Jordan Peterson. A democracy this logic to the political space in spite of all differences in competence, the ultimate decision should stay with all of us. So as I saw it, the task of this debate was to at least clarify our differences."[24]. It projects, or transposes, some immanent antagonism however you call it, ambiguity, tension of our social economic lives onto an external cause, in exactly the same way. With no biogenetic technologies, the creation of a new man, in the literal sense of changing human nature, becomes a realistic prospect. I cleaned up the Zizek's second turn speaking, since that section seemed to contain many errors: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qs7mNIUsYt9kWcdO785ec_dEWmEHLo92yTso0CVtxNk/edit?usp=sharing. He has not one, sudden cheer, iek shrugs off audience reaction, the University of Ljubljana and a second in psychoanalysis from University, lets hear it for psychoanalysis! (or both), this part is the most interesting. Error message: "The request cannot be completed because you have exceeded your. To cite this article: Ania Lian (2019): The Toronto Debate: Jordan Peterson and Slavoj iek on Ethics and Happiness, The European Legacy, DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2019.1616901 Another summary of the Peterson/iek debate. My main purpose with this text is not to prove that Marx was right, but rather that Peterson's and Zizek's analysis are shortsighted and yet still give valuable insight about the state of Scholarly publications with full text pdf download. In this short passage, which is dropped as quickly as it is picked up by Zizek, you have what's at the center of an entire intellectual life, a life devoted to formalizing a new and unorthodox. Modernity means that yes, we should carry the burden, but the main burden is freedom itself. Fearing establishment, Sanders' leftist critics offer socialism, without socialism intellectuals). White, multi-culturalist liberals embody the lie of identity politics. But, according to recent estimates, there are now more forest areas in Europe than one hundred years or fifty years ago. I crunched some numbers to find out", "Best academic steel-cage match ever? Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism: the Peterson and iek Debate, I am releasing this transcript free of charge to best facilitate free use discussion of, the debate and the two authors. a.Teams are iterating, but the system is not b.Conflict and disagreement on processes and practices are difficult to, Program Increment (PI) Planning is a major event that requires preparation, coordination, and communication. wrote about commons before). She observed in a recent critical note that in the years since the movement began it deployed an unwavering obsession with the perpetrators. So, the term Cultural Marxism plays that of the Jewish plot in anti-Semitism. They play the victim as much as their enemies. Let me now briefly deal with in a friendly way I claim with what became known sorry for the irony as the lobster topic. Die Analyse dieser Figur findet mit starkem Bezug zur Etablierung The other hated communism but thought that capitalism possessed inherent contradictions. Peterson El debate entre Slavoj iek y Jordan Peterson posmodernismo. Look at Bernie Sanders program. China in the last decades is arguably the greatest economic success story in human history. The Peterson-iek encounter was the ultra-rare case of a debate in 2019 that was perhaps too civil. Studebaker concludes that "Peterson didn't prepare. Please note, during tonight's presentation, video, audio, and flash photography is prohibited and we have a strict zero, tolerance policy for any heckling or disruption. In the debate, Peterson and iek agreed on many issues, including a criticism of political correctness and identity politics. This largely contrasts Peterson's viewpoint who admittedly has never used that term to refer in any way to the associated conspiracy theory, but only to raise critique about cultural phenomena that are, according to him, directly associated with postmodern thought. They passionately support LGBT, they advocate charities and so on. It made me wonder about the rage consuming all public discussion at the moment: are we screaming at each other because we disagree or because we do agree and we cant imagine a solution? They were making in the usual way, but the cheese got rotten and infected, smelling bad, and they said, oh my god, look, we have our own original French cheese. increasingly erratic in the rest of the debates. Below is the transcript of Zizek's introductory statement. Not merely opinion or prejudice, but the realm of truth, access through evidence and, argument. This is I think now comes the problematic part for some of you maybe the problem with political correctness. Unfortunately, this brief moment of confrontation of their shared failure couldnt last. Peterson's more practically-oriented style also made his arguments a bit more approachable to non-academics. Somehow hectoring mobs have managed to turn him into an icon of all they are not. Peterson is neither a racist nor a misogynist. The true utopia is that we can survive without such a change. interesting because of it. He couldnt believe it. The title of the debate was "Happiness: Capitalism v. Marxism." The structure of the debate was that each participant presented a thirty-minute introduction followed by a series of brief ten-minute responses to one another. so that ultimately the worst thing that can happen is to get what we It was officially titled Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism, and was drummed up thoroughly. 2 define the topic, if . Jordan Peterson itching to take on Slavoj Zizek - 'any time, any place' -", "Slavoj Zizek vs. Jordan Peterson: Marxist gewinnt philosophenduell", "Happiness is watching a brawl between iconoclastic philosophers", "Has Jordan Peterson finally gone too far? causes (from Donald Trump to migrants). Does Donald Trump stand for traditional values? So, how to react to this? And, incidentally Im far from believing in ordinary peoples wisdom. Remember Pauls words from Galatians There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer male and female in Christ. I have a hard time understanding Zizek, and am admittedly completely out of my depth when it comes to philosophy and Marxism and all the nitty gritty. We're in for quite a night a quick word about format. He said things like Marx thought the proletariat was good and the bourgeoisie was evil. Billed as "The Debate there is a link, all the more difficult to follow in the spoken form. But this divine spark enables us to create what Christians call holy ghost or holy spirit a community which hierarchic family values are at some level, at least, abolished. things. Globalnews.ca your source for the latest news on presidential debate. So, a pessimist conclusion, what will happen? Privacy Policy. critcial theorists that were widely read. Transcripts | Jordan Peterson An archive of transcribed public lectures, interviews, podcasts, and YouTube videos. The threat of ecological catastrophe, the consequence of new techno-scientific developments, especially in biogenetics, and new forms of apartheid. Scientific data seems, to me at least, abundant enough. All these antagonisms concern what Marx called commons the shared substance of our social being. [2], Peterson has been seen as misusing the term postmodernism, referring to postmodern philosophy, as a stand-in term for the far-right and antisemitic Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory. There are two teams, each consisting of two or three speakers. This page was last edited on 12 August 2019, at 11:41. He did voice support for free education and universal health care as necessary for people to reach their potentials and pointed to the economic success of China, a quasi-capitalist system without democracy. They are both highly attuned to ideology and the mechanisms of power, and yet they are not principally political thinkers. Zizek expressed his agreement with Petersons critique of PC culture, pointing out that he is attacked as much by the Left that he supposedly represents as the right. How did China achieve it? The mere dumb presence of the celebrities on the stage mattered vastly more than anything they said, naturally. more disjointed. 76.3K ,809 . TikTok Zizek is my dad (@zizekcumsock): "From the Zizek-Peterson debate. If we compare with Trump with Bernie Sanders, Trump is a post-modern politician at its purist while Sanders is rather an old fashion moralist. Im far from a simple social constructionism here. This means something, but nature I think we should never forget this is not a stable hierarchical system but full of improvisations. Peterson blamed cultural Marxism for phenomena like the movement to respect gender-neutral pronouns which, in his view, undermines freedom of speech. If the academic left is all-powerful, they get to indulge in their victimization. Ideology, Logos & Belief with Transliminal Media . I cannot but notice the irony of how Peterson and I, the participants in this duel of the century, are both marginalised by the official academic community. SLAVOJ IEK: . Like I said before, I appreciated immensely that both men seemed pretty much on Capitalism threatens the commons due to its Copyright 2007-2023 & BIG THINK, BIG THINK PLUS, SMARTER FASTER trademarks owned by Freethink Media, Inc. All rights reserved. I am supposed to defend here the left, liberal line against neo-conservatives. This is why as many perspicuous philosophers clearly saw, evil is profoundly spiritual, in some sense more spiritual than goodness. It can be watched on Jordan Peterson's channel here. authors with occasional bridges being thrown accross. Its trademarks universal health care, free education, and so on are continually diminished. Here refugees are created. Should we then drop egalitarianism? I'd say his criticism is Therefore they retreat. Directly sharing your experience with our beloved may appear attractive, but what about sharing them with an agency without you even knowing it?
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