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Re:Google’s become an obsessive stalker by RodericDay on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @11:35AM (#12498001)
Slavoj Zizek had a great talk with a talk show host from the Netherlands precisely about this matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIPjmmmh_os

Fun watch imo. There's also another session between them two.

Re:Google’s become an obsessive stalker by dredmorbius on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @11:56AM (#12498239)
An 80-minute talk. Zizek tends to wander a bit:

Slavoj Žižek + Paul Holdengräber "Surveillance and whistleblowers" - International Authors' Stage Det Kongelige Bibliotek 71,767 views

Published on May 19, 2014

I'M WATCHING YOU PART 1 - part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZiFWZpYds

4:48 Danish pornography

5:40 There is no harmony in the univers

8:44 David Lynch and the crawling excess of life

11:17 God underestimated us

19:40 Why do people read Stephen Hawking?

21:14 Surveillance and whistleblowers

22:40 The most dangerous freedom

30:40 The necessity of vulgar humor

35:24 The public persona

37:45 The connection between Pussy Riot and Snowden

41:58 Never allow intellectuals in power

47:30 Julian Assange, a spy for the people

53:46 There are only two different kinds of persons in the world

56:38 Right wing wisdom

57:39 People only want the appearance of freedom

1:01:51 The complicity of liberal tolerant capitalism

1:07:42 The European dream

1:13:50 Unjustified paranoia

The Slovenian star philosopher Slavoj Žižek in the first of two conversations on surveillance with the popular and charismatic interviewer Paul Holdengräber, director of Public Programs at the New York Public Library.

The Black Diamond, The Royal Library, Copenhagen 18 May 2014

Video: http://www.videoakademiet.dk