…very important. I think brother Michael Brooks, you know, he would want us to acknowledge the crucial role of what Max Weber called the vocation of the intellectual Stephen Arrowsmith, Ph.D.: Yeah. The vocation of the intellectual is to make sure that…

…all your past life as if I was alive just to arrive at this moment, you know. Okay, so yellow... You brutally deprived me of Weber. I didn't help him get up after he slept on the bed. Last time I interviewed you, you called me your sleeper ego. I…

…it be logical to claim, if it's predestined, fuck off, I lay down, awaken me when God comes, but leave me alone. No, Weber saw this clearly and Luther, that precisely because you don't know it. Knowing that your fate is decided, but not knowing what…

…usually people designate Stalinism as bureaucratic socialism. I think it's exactly if we use the term bureaucracy in its noble Max Weber sense. The problem of Stalinism was precisely that it politicized The state so much that it never was ready and able…

…serfs, farmers, there were knights, there were priests, there were guild members, artisans, and so on. But nonetheless, we know the story, Max Weber and so on. It is stupid and wrong to say that if you ask a knife, a knight, what's your profession, even…

…on. Another example where one should agree with Latour but go further is the notion of profession. Profession, as Max Weber demonstrated, it's a modern notion. Profession implies a certain profession. choice of a free Cartesian subjectively. You are not born…

…existed. They are the early 19th century cultural inventions. of late Romanticism, some people think it in some late Carl Maria Weber and early Richard Wagner's operas that they were first invented. So much about, you know, whites who want to defend their…

…to drink and so on and I think this occurs today in many conflicts on the level of everyday life and as Max Weber has taught religious positions also translate into matters which don't seem immediately of religious nature so I think for example when a…

…it be logical to claim, if it's predestined, fuck off, I lay down, awaken me when God comes, but leave me alone. No, Weber saw this clearly and Luther, that precisely because you don't know it. Knowing that your fate is decided, but not knowing what…

…socialism. Why? Because, you know, when people claim Stalinism was bureaucratic, no, I claim if we grasp bureaucracy in the Max Weber sense of efficient state machinery, Stalinism was precisely not able to do this. It needed a permanent emergency state. In…

…usually people designate Stalinism as bureaucratic socialism. I think it's exactly if we use the term bureaucracy in its noble Max Weber sense. The problem of Stalinism was precisely that it politicized the state so much that it never was ready and able…

…and her defense was empirical one. Like, no, you haven't to take it literally. Sometimes you don't have to. Horror. Then Sam Weber, the old Derridian, was there. And he did the most ridiculous defense of her and Derrida that you can imagine. He said,…

…I think, I, but, probably Slavoj, I don't know, belong to a tradition where you find names like Durkheim, Tocqueville, Max Weber, of course, et cetera, which contends that Christianity is the end of religions. It's the end of religions. Max Weber about…

…Weber, of course, et cetera, which contends that Christianity is the end of religions. It's the end of religions. Max Weber about Protestantism said that it was responsible for the and sauberung der Welt, so translated disenchantment, but literally it means…

…I think that We all know Max Weber's classical book, The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism. I think that if Weber were to be alive today, he would have written a book something like Taoist Ethics and the Spirit of Global Capitalism. It…

…nothingness of it, it means nothing, it functions perfectly, which is why to conclude this first point I think that if Max Weber were to rewrite his legendary book on Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism today the title of the book would have…

…wonderful paradox? I repeat it all the time. How, as we all know, up to a point it's even true from Max Weber, radical Calvinist protestantism was the religious foundation ideology, however you put it, of capitalism. from a common sense view, how weird…

…I saw years ago, it deeply impressed me, a ballet staged by George Balanchine based on a short orchestral piece by Anton Weber. They're all short. After the music was over, some five minutes of music, the dancers... continued to dance for some time in…

…questions? Have you thought about this paradox? I've written about it. Which is a crazy paradox. Namely, how, we all know, Max Weber, capitalism, Protestantism. But if we approach it with a common sense, it would have been that Capitalism, as we know, the…

…even better on the market. No, because you will not be... and so on and so on. So my claim is that if Max Weber were to live today, he would definitely wrote a second supplementary volume to his Protestant ethics and so on, entitled The Taoist Ethic…