Struggle Session on Slavoj Zizek’s Multipolarity Article
Ben and producer Jordan hash out their points of agreement and disagreement with Zizek’s recent article in Compact arguing against a Multipolar world. Follow Producer Jordan on Twitter: @jayohardeeayen Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to […]
Slavoj Zizek Responds to His Critics
Zizek responds to recent critics that accuse him of being a Liberal or insufficiently radical. Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going: patreon.com/benburgis Visit […]
Slavoj Zizek on China
Zizek gives his view of the state of modern China and the ongoing experiment of “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this […]
Slavoj Zizek on Hegel, Marx, David Harvey, and the Labor Theory of Value
In which Slavoj clears up his views on the relationship between Hegelian and Marxist thought once and for all. Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this […]
Slavoj Zizek and the Case for Compatibilism | Philosophy for the People
Cross-streamed from This is Revolution: Here’s their description: Every week Ben and our own Stefan Bertram-Lee are going to be chatting about whatever Ben wrote for the Substack that week, and using it as a launching pad for a bigger discussion. This week they’re talking Zizek and Compatibilism. Subscribe for free to get a new […]
Slavoj Zizek on Aleksandr Dugin and Ukraine
Slavoj gives his perspective on the war in Ukraine and how it contrasts with Aleksandr Dugin’s. Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going: patreon.com/benburgis […]
Slavoj Zizek Talks to Ben Burgis About What Comes After Capitalism
What will a post-capitalist society actually look like? How many meetings is too many meetings? Ben and Slavoj discuss. Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this […]
Season 5 Episode 5: Slavoj Zizek on Hegel, Marx, Ukraine, Political Correctness & His Critics
Philosopher, psychologist, and commentator Slavoj Žižek comes back to the show to talk with Ben Burgis about….well….everything. We had to prerecord this part of the show since Slavoj is in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where it’s going to be like four in the morning when GTAA airs, and the conversation hits on everything from the relationship between […]
Debunking the Hit Piece on Slavoj Zizek
Ben Burgis argues that the recent Zizek slander is misguided and takes the philosopher out of context. https://www.ticketweb.com/event/this-is-revolution-left-reckoning-cutting-room-tickets/12706315 Philosophy for the People: https://benburgis.substack.com/ Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for […]
Thursday Night Debate Breakdown #33: Christopher Hitchens vs. Rabbi David Wolpe
Ben Burgis and Producer Jake continue Give Them An Argument’s weekly series of Thursday Night Debate Breakdown’s by watching Christopher Hitchens debate with Rabbi David Wolpe. Jake claims to not even be all that religious a Jew but Ben is like 99% sure Jake is secretly a Talmudic scholar and will defer to him on […]