2009 Žižek on liberalism and what does it mean to be human

Tuesday 24th November 2009 – 2.30 pm  Clore Lecture Theatre (B01), Clore Management Centre, Torrington Sq.

As long as we have liberalism as we have it, it will always generate fundamentalism

Fundamentalism is the SYMPTOM of Liberalism.  LIBERALISM IS THE DETERMINING FACTOR.  As long as we have liberalism the way we have it, it will generate fundamentalism.

Afghanistan was the singular most secular and tolerant Muslim country. The Fundamentalization of Afghanistan was the product of the way Afghanistan was caught in the global capitalist process. Kansas 30 years ago was the state with the greatest number of populist leftists, the home of John Brown. What happened in 30-40 this bedrock of progressivism turned into a bible thumping belt.

The solution to the opposition of Liberalism-Fundamentalism, this opposition is a real opposition but a FALSE opposition.

Mode of inclusion of Congo in the global market

The Hegelian Aufhebung

Every Fascism is the sign of a failed revolution. “Islamofascism” is there because the Left wasn’t there.

ooh we’re becoming robots, we’re getting post-human, are symptoms, How do we re-define humanity outside of this panic pseudo nightmares and Catholic Church 

humanitarian panic or new age optimism, reject both sides.  total rehabilitation of alienation, celebrate the LOSS the DISTANCE

The true threat to our survival is holistic civilzation, we need to restore the balance, NO we human introduced imalance, that is what makes us.