…traumas into the others and so on and so on. And this brings me to one of the most stupid statements. I almost become Goebbels here and say, let's burn books where they claim this, which is... It's really like I'm speaking. It's like I feel now like a…

…a child come to something, blah, blah, blah. But already persona, if you ask me, is pure bluff. Cries and whispers, I become Goebbels there. A lot of bluffing is going there. So, no, or even so much celebrated, some of those Ingrid Bergman or Cellini…

…Olga Kurilenko to name them. They just split apart. Next thing, Dan Brown. I mean, I think books should be burned. I think Goebbels had a nice, good principle. In Germany in 1933, he just didn't burn the right books. The right books. Like Dan Brown…

…you to join me in thanking... I'm grateful for your one thing to you and all the others, because there I get in Joseph Goebbels' mood of drawing the gun. that no one will use the expression, I think so at least, the Elvis of cultural theory. You know,…

…same in... Now I'm really much lower than James Bond. Some of the films I like there. Now I'm really in this, my Goebbels mood again. Like maybe Goebbels was... With the revolver. No, no, it's not revolver. It's Goebbels burning the books, no? And what…

…much lower than James Bond. Some of the films I like there. Now I'm really in this, my Goebbels mood again. Like maybe Goebbels was... With the revolver. No, no, it's not revolver. It's Goebbels burning the books, no? And what I'm saying is... that if…

…there. Now I'm really in this, my Goebbels mood again. Like maybe Goebbels was... With the revolver. No, no, it's not revolver. It's Goebbels burning the books, no? And what I'm saying is... that if you take Dan Brown books and film based on Dan Brown,…

…point, as is typical for carnival, ran out of control. And that's the very sad thing. It wasn't that it was planned by Goebbels or whom. It was, but even they were surprised by how it exploded. So again, I'm just saying, don't also, don't idealize the…

…psychoanalytic. something in me as a person, if I may put it like this. I am a totalitarian, you know. I hate, I became like Goebbels and draw my gun if somebody says I want to express myself. Who the hell do you think you are? I'm not interested in…

…well that we sometimes see ourselves precisely in that way. And so on and so on. I explode here. I almost have a Goebbels reaction. Because, first, one always has to ask these naive questions. Who exactly is that idiot who says that we are simply…

…put the next one. Now comes a much tougher example. I'm sorry for the images at the beginning. This is Joseph Goebbels, his famous total war speech from February 1943. After Stalingrad defeat, Goebbels organized a big meeting in Berlin. to mobilize people…

…sorry for the images at the beginning. This is Joseph Goebbels, his famous total war speech from February 1943. After Stalingrad defeat, Goebbels organized a big meeting in Berlin. to mobilize people for the war effort. And just listen to me. I'm sorry for…

…just listen to me. I'm sorry for this. It's a bad version. I didn't get a better version. But wait till you see Goebbels himself. This is maybe one of the most successful speeches in history. Why? You know, after the Stalingrad defeat, The idea was…

…of it from the people, let's offer them hope and so on. And this was quite an ingenious idea by the horrible criminal Goebbels. He said, no, let's just confront them with full horror. No false hopes. No, because did you, if you listen to this speech,…

…them with full horror. No false hopes. No, because did you, if you listen to this speech, You know, the questions that Goebbels is demanding from the public, it's basically, do you want to suffer more? Do you want to suffer? You saw that beautiful…

…he wants to be a wise guy, wisdom, giving advice to people, Jungian approach and so on and so on. Here I react like Goebbels. pull out my gun. I have such a distrust towards any form of wisdom. Wisdom is for me, by definition, stupidity. You know what…

…Goethe did it, my God, when I read that Goethe's finale of Faust, you know, the eternally feminine drags me in, I become Goebbels, like... throw that book on fire and so on. I think that this idea of the eternally feminine is so deeply anti-feminist,…

…am? This self-doubt. And it's also important to see the whole Lacanian background of this. You know... I get almost a Joseph Goebbels reaction of pulling my gun and start shooting when Lacan's notion of lost object of desire is read as this stupid…

…fascinates me is, I give him a horrible political example of enjoyment in pain. You know, my God, you must know it, Goebbels' Totaler Krieg speech. He does something genius in a terrifying way, Goebbels, there in Palast in early 1943. All he promises to…

…in pain. You know, my God, you must know it, Goebbels' Totaler Krieg speech. He does something genius in a terrifying way, Goebbels, there in Palast in early 1943. All he promises to German people is more suffering. He says, do you want a creek,…

…surplus enjoyment. You should watch it. It's terrifying, but such a supreme example of what Lacan meant by surplus enjoyment. Joseph Goebbels, you know, in 43, after Stalingrad defeat of Germany, his famous speech in Berlin called the Total War, Total Krieg…

…Krieg speech. Why is this speech so interesting? You should listen to the words. Germans were shocked. by the Stalingrad defeat. And Goebbels did a wonderful thing. Wonderful in a terrifying sense. It would have been much better for him not to succeed so…

…conclusion absolute and unlimited and so on and so on? I will not quote it all, but the basic paradox is this one. What Goebbels famous 20 or how much questions to the public, which are of course all answered with a resolute, yes, we are ready. There…

…That's pleasure, surplus pleasure. Sorry, surplus enjoyment as opposed to pleasure. And it's extremely interesting to... to observe closely Goebbels' speech, sorry, his face during his speech, because when he gets into this full enthusiasm, do you want more…

…example which is the purest for me and it's terrifying. I hope you saw it, not to be terrorized, not to enjoy it, Joseph Goebbels' Totaler Krieg speech. Took it, you find it in ten versions at YouTube and so on. And you know what's so surprising? She…

…in ten versions at YouTube and so on. And you know what's so surprising? She doesn't promise pleasure, it's just more suffering. Like Goebbels said in almost Kantian terms, do you want a war which will be so total that you cannot even imagine how total…

…Now I will go even further in my platitudes if you want. When I see Eros and civilization, I claim, fuck it, maybe Goebbels was right, just in the wrong way. Maybe we should burn books, but just Goebbels had a good principle, but didn't burn the…

…and civilization, I claim, fuck it, maybe Goebbels was right, just in the wrong way. Maybe we should burn books, but just Goebbels had a good principle, but didn't burn the right books. This book is so totally worthless, this Freud or Marxist idea, you…

…that democracy functions how here? The model are two American films that I really hate, and I would put them on that Goebbels list to be burned. All the president's men and pelican brief. They appear very critical. Hollywood left. Oh my God, the whole…

…practical understanding that works is struggle. Not with the enemy, but solidarity in struggle. I hate another candidate for that Goebbels book burning. You know, those... They were popular when I was young. Those UNESCO books describing all the world…

…no longer operative. People know you don't prevent things happening through enlightenment. What do I mean by this? You know that old Goebbels story, which is not even true about Goebbels, that he said, whenever I hear the word culture, I pick up my gun.…

…things happening through enlightenment. What do I mean by this? You know that old Goebbels story, which is not even true about Goebbels, that he said, whenever I hear the word culture, I pick up my gun. You have two further variations of it. There…

…tried to account along these lines for our fascination with all this infinitely boring. I think I am here in a Goebbels mood. They should be burned publicly. You know these animal life documentaries on nature, National Geographic. The fascination of them…

…too... too joyful, I will give you the terrifying example. You know, when after Germany was defeated at Stalingrad, Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister, did something quite ingenious. He organized a big, mega public meeting in Berlin in Sportpalast, a…

…listening to it all. In second part, it will be around three minutes. Because what is so shocking, listen carefully to what Goebbels is saying. You know, some Nazis said, let's downplay the Stalingrad defeat and so on. No, Goebbels said, let's go to the…

…listen carefully to what Goebbels is saying. You know, some Nazis said, let's downplay the Stalingrad defeat and so on. No, Goebbels said, let's go to the end, let's admit it, let's exaggerate it. And it's an incredible... performance of this surplus…

…to say is that I'm sorry we don't have more details. Crucially, it's wonderful to analyze it towards the end. the expression of Goebbels' face, which is not just this active fury, but a strange contortion of face which really betrays some kind of a very…

…is how all these leftist friends of mine, when I... I mean, it was almost not the same politics, but the same economy as Goebbels. I noticed that the more I described them the suffering that this will cause, the more they say, yes, but we are ready to…

…égalité, fraternité, on behalf of the sacred formula of lower costs, high efficiency. When I read this, I get a Goebbels reaction. I draw my gun. It is progressively penetrated by different forms of the famous formalized PPP, public-private partnership. Then…

…égalité, fraternité, on behalf of the sacred formula of lower costs, high efficiency. When I read this, I get a Goebbels reaction. I draw my gun. It is progressively penetrated by different forms of the famous formalized PPP, public-private partnership. Then…

…is, you know, after the Stalingrad defeat, where? The mood in Germany was not exactly the best, no? And then Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister, did something quite extraordinary. He gave a speech in big Berlin Hall, Sports Palace, where he mobilized…

…And watch carefully the expression of... especially, I wasn't able to get any close-ups, but there are some photos, when Goebbels himself gets into this trance, it's not just aggressivity. His face becomes twisted in a certain way. disgusting passivity he's…

…the sword of the King, Okay, let's not exaggerate. Let's not give them too much pleasure because... No, I mean, Goebbels is a fascinating figure because all other big leaders like Himmler, especially Goering, they had this... compromising pragmatic attitude…

…compromising pragmatic attitude for example Goering already approached in the winter of 44 the Americans can we make a partial peace but Goebbels went to the end and if you want to see ideological madness at its purest Download the movie, you can get it…

…madness. It was shot in the fall of 44. And, you know, what was in the fall of 1945? I mean, Germany was losing. Goebbels convinced Hitler to allow him to withdraw tens of thousands of soldiers from the front to play in the film. The military industry…

…supplement male principle with woman's principle. I think this is a catastrophe, and my good friend Judy Butler knows it. She's like Goebbels in a good sense. What I'm saying is that human rights are precisely the rights of such an empty individual. That's…

…call it, conservative right-wing twist, like they say, oh, whenever, like to be brutal, like, sorry for this tasteless metaphor, you know Goebbels said, whenever I hear blah blah culture, I reach for my gun. Well, whenever I hear Mother Nature, I reach for…

…Adorno says... We have to, I mean, when I read about people like Benedetto Croce, his book, I'm tempted to say, my God, maybe Goebbels, not your Goebbels without S, who is now back in Germany, but the real one, you know, that when he said he was, you…

…have to, I mean, when I read about people like Benedetto Croce, his book, I'm tempted to say, my God, maybe Goebbels, not your Goebbels without S, who is now back in Germany, but the real one, you know, that when he said he was, you know, burning…

…and so on. When I hear about books like Crotchet's, my temptation is to say, but maybe there was a same principle in Goebbels. He was just burning the wrong books. Burn books like Crotchet's book. Do you consider Adorno a philosopher? That's a very good…

…erased. And incidentally this is almost the only good thing I think James Cameron did. In my universe To provoke my friends that Goebbels did a horrible thing by burning books. But maybe, this is my cynical version of when you throw out the dirty water,…

…will say, fine, less male chauvinism. It's much more ambiguous. Let's now move from James Bond really low to books which I become Goebbels there. I would have burned them in public like the Nazis did. Dan Brown. Did you notice how in his last novels sex…

…what I say. When one says Eurocentrism, every self-respecting postmodern leftist intellectual has as violent a reaction as Joseph Goebbels had to culture. to reach for a gun, hurling accusation of proto-fascist Eurocentrist cultural imperialism. However, is it…

…respectful than post-colonial. This is the good term. Decolonial intellectual has not as violent a reaction as Joseph Goebbels had to culture, to reach for a gun, hurling accusations of proto-fascist, Eurocentrist cultural imperialism. A self-respecting…

…today. The problem is this one. Let me put it in these brutal terms. The right-wing formula was the one of Joseph Goebbels, you remember. His famous statement, which of course he never made, but this is the fate of statements, they're always misattributed.…

…not in the class sense but in the sense of artistic consistency attempt to fill up for example if you ask me a Goebbels question which movies you would be ready to burn in public immediately what comes to my mind are two Bertolucci films Sheltering Sky…

…The ideology of tolerance that I really hate can be best condensed in one motto. And here I have really a Joseph Goebbels reaction. I draw my gun. It's the famous multiculturalist motto, An enemy is someone whose story you did not hear. Start shooting.…

…interesting one, I can advise you, look at it, it's not so bad. Do you know that in 43, 42, 43, German and Goebbels, Nazis, made a Titanic, which was very anti-British. You know, the corrupted English captain and so on. It's a pretty good version, like…

…Kohlberg, you know that? That's totally, you should see, now you can get it legally with Germany. Kohlberg is, you know, you know that Goebbels got an idea after seeing Gone with the Wind? thing that can save Germany is to do a big mega hit like Gone…

…truce and okay. But the point is that the idea was to present You know, Germans, everything bombed, needing soldiers, everything. Goebbels got it that they withdrew some 40,000, 50,000 soldiers from the Eastern Front. They put them in, they made, how do…

…So what does this mean? Hegel's inconsistency should be said that from the very beginning he presupposes were musicals and melodramas. Goebbels knew very well you shouldn't feed the population just with stupid propaganda, no? Okay, and in one of them the…

…level. You remember, if you know, we are talking about Steven Pinker. This is the guy who sees rap, who has a Goebbels reaction if you mention France, French talk, and so on, deconstruct, whatever. Okay, he asks a simple question. Which is a rational…

…All good political terror had a religious background. My German hero is Thomas Minzer and so on. Yes, but they were at least, like Goebbels, raised in that, you know? You are very late, come up to the game, so you are, what's that you call it? In…