Fundamentalism as Symptom of Liberalism
The claim that fundamentalism is not a remainder of the dark past but is actively generated by the global process of capitalism itself.
The stories that teach it
the jokes and anecdotes he reaches for when he works in this idea, ranked by how many of its talks they turn up in; each card is one story, with every retelling on its page
Milošević and nomenklatura nationalism
The communist nomenklatura, sensing the end of socialist legitimacy, intuitively grasped that playing the nationalist card was their only way to retain power, Milošević as the paradigm case, and the moment Yugoslavia effectively died.
Clinton's 'We Blew It on Global Food' speech
Clinton admitted at a UN World Food Day gathering that Western pressure to open and commodify third-world agriculture caused the global food crisis; Žižek uses this to argue that once you accept food, water, energy, environment, culture, and health as non-commodities, you must…
Anti-Iraq war demonstration's missed opportunity
The anti-Iraq war demonstrations failed to make their case maximally because they defended Iraq as it was under Saddam (the Galloway position) instead of platforming Iraqi leftists who were both anti-Saddam and anti-American, a missed dialectical opportunity.
Where it comes up 4
4 moments located in the transcripts, click a timestamp to play from there