Slavoj Žižek + Paul Holdengräber "Surveillance and whistleblowers" - International Authors' Stage

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters call it an entertaining, complementary philosophical take on surveillance, with a funny story about jamming secret police.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Det Kgl. Bibliotek

Topic

surveillance and whistleblowers

Format

interview

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2016

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From the original HN conversations

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• Even if you don't like Slavoj Žižek, he has a funny story related to this: [VIDEO] He talks about how he and his associates were dissidents and had meetings and they agreed on a protocol to talk gibberish at the end. Fake, military sounding code …

• At this stage it has become apparent that opposing surveillance doesn't appear to be helping. It's pretty clear where this is headed, and it seems to me the only way out of it is through it and out the other side, whatever that might look …

• As a complimentary perspective: For those who haven't seen it, I think Slavoj Žižek and Paul Holdengräber on "Surveillance and whistleblowers" is worth a watch. The part about surveillance starts at 21:14 so this link will take you there [VIDEO] Žižek: "The most dangerous unfreedom …