Lecture : Slavoj Žižek "Are There Still Masters or Are There Only Servants of Servants?
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Walden Korea Lecture Series
International School of Philosophy in Asia (ISPA)
Slavoj Žižek “Are There Still Masters or Are There Only Servants of Servants?”
10 am (EST-U.S & Canada), Wed, December 21
Webinar Lecture
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86835446597?pwd=WnpZSFgyc3c2Zkc2elhHajhYL04xZz09
Meeting ID: 868 3544 6597
Passcode: 4343
All are welcome to join by video or audio
Dr. Žižek will take questions from audience
Email: info@waldenkorea.org
Host: Walden Korea
Sponsor: Jeju 4.3 Peace Foundation
The Walden Korea Lecture Series brings together leading scholars and public intellectuals to engage the most urgent questions of our time. In the 21st century, global mobility and the rise of the “global value chain” have turned large parts of Asia and beyond into vast, interconnected production zones, reshaping global capitalism. Accelerating industrialization has fueled the growth of major metropolitan centers while intensifying environmental degradation, climate crisis, and climate change.
As regional economies have been integrated into global markets, local lifeworlds have been reconfigured and increasingly subordinated to the norms of a monetary regime. In this sense, Asia can no longer be understood as merely a particular geographic region. It has become a key site through which the dynamics of global capitalism can be examined as a universal condition. For this reason, the lecture series takes Asia as a critical vantage point for developing what it calls a “planetary philosophy,” a framework for thinking across borders, systems, and scales.
At the same time, rapid technological development continues to detach certainty from lived, spatio-temporal experience, while algorithmic forms of intelligence increasingly shape how we perceive, decide, and know. The energy infrastructures that sustain contemporary civilization, from coal and oil to electricity, have enabled extraordinary growth, yet they also constrain the imagination and obstruct the possibility of genuinely different futures. But the future is never simply ahead of us; it is always tied to rupture in the present. Alternative possibilities are already embedded within today’s reality as latent potentials.
From this perspective, the Walden Korea Lecture Series, the inaugural program of the International School of Philosophy in Asia, invites all who are interested in challenging normative perceptions of the contemporary world and seeking alternative approaches to prevailing knowledge systems.
The Walden Korea Lecture Series is the first program launched under the International School of Philosophy in Asia (ISPA) and is funded by the Jeju 4·3 Peace Foundation. The opening lecture will be delivered by Slavoj Žižek, the Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist, and public intellectual. Žižek serves as International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, is a Visiting Professor at New York University, and is a Senior Researcher at the University of Ljubljana’s Department of Philosophy.