politics for the 99%

• We Can’t Address the EU Refugee Crisis Without Confronting Global Capitalism – Slavoj Zizek, on IN THESE TIMES, by SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK, Sept 9, 2015;
• Environment, Identity and Multiculturalism – discussion with Slavoj Zizek, 40.13 min, uploaded by Science and Scolastic, July 24, 2015;
• What does it mean to be a great thinker today – Slavoj Zizek, 111.54 min, uploaded by IWM Vienna, May 6, 2015 … Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen / Institute for Human Sciences;
• an excerpt of above:
  on Democratic Socialism – Slavoj Žižek, 9.28 min, uploaded by Simon Gros, May 12, 2015 … An excerpt from a discussion following a lecture delivered by Dr. Slavoj Žižek on May 5th, 2015 at the Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen) in Vienna;
• MUSIC: URE@logic – Balkan Spirit, 64.05 min, uploaded by MrLemilica2, Dec 30, 2013;
• Balkan Spirit 2013 (docu film, French Dub), 59.56 min, uploaded by Simon Gros, Nov 17, 2013 … Filmmaker Hermann Vaske and philosopher Slavoj Žižek take us along a rollercoaster ride through the creative world of the Balkans. “Balkan Spirit” is an exploration of the various facets of creativity: cultural, philosophical, political and artistic. Featuring world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic and actress Angelina Jolie, who chose the Balkan theme for her directorial debut. Musicians like Baba Zula, Goran Bregovic and the Boban i Marko Markovic Orchestra. YouTube artist Jelena Petosevic and legendary filmmakers like Dušan Makavejev. Directors as diverse as Jasmila Žbanic and Emir Kusturica. And scientists like Croatian astronomer Korado Korlevic. Finally, representing young creatives we talked to artists like Flaka Haliti and Želimir Baric;
• balkan spirit english on YouTube-search;
• balkan spirit in serbian = балкански дух = put into YouTube-search = https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8+%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%85
• Slavoj Žižek Balkans on Google News-search;

Links:

Turkey and the Kurds, widening the conflict, on The Economist, Jan 23, 2016: a campaign against the PKK turns the country’s south-east into a war zone;

The Failure of the Iraqi Army, America’s $25 Billion Paper Tiger, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Jan 22, 2016;

QUELLE MÉTAMORPHOSE DU MONDE DU TRAVAIL À L’ÈRE DU NUMÉRIQUE, dans novethic, le 22 janv 2016;

France: Demain, tous slashers (cumuler les activités)? dans La Tribune, par Philippe Boyer, le 22 janv 2016;

Des indemnités journalières données au compte-gouttes, dans Centre Presse, Vienne, le 22 janv 2016: L’auto-entrepreneur qui luttait contre la maladie doit ouvrir un autre front pour lutter contre la perte de ses moyens de subsistance …;

Stemming the Flow, Berlin Hunts for Back-Up Plan in Refugee Crisis, on Spiegel Online International, by Dietmar Hipp, Peter Müller, Ralf Neukirch and Christoph Schult, Jan 22, 2016: officially, the German government wants a Europe-wide solution to the Continent’s mounting refugee problem. Behind the scenes, though, Berlin is searching for a Plan B to solve the crisis. Is the country moving closer to closing its borders?
Map: Border Controls inside the Schengen Zone;

Avons-nous oublié qui se cache derrière les chiffres de l’exclusion? – Anthony Atkinson, dans Libération.fr, par Philippe Douroux, le 21 janv 2016;

Let’s design social media that drives real change, 13.34 min, on TED in Geneva, by Wael Ghonim, Dec 2015;

The Abyss Of Spirituality – Slavoj Zizek, 18.38 min, uploaded by Tuigen Heim, Nov 5, 2015 … Slavoj starts with the banality of Gangnam Style’s popularity as a means of mass trance experience. He then moves to ethnic cleansing, and the role poetry & mythology played in assisting those involved in the crime of ethnic cleansing in various cultures. Next, he moves on to the cynical political machinations of Father Joseph in the Thirty Year’s War, despite Joseph’s intensely sincere spiritual experiences. Finally, he rounds it off with insights into the refined musical tastes of one of Hitler’s top brass.