Tag Archives: Zizek
Dabashi: Slavoj Zizek and Harum Scarum
In Gene Nelson’s “Harum Scarum” (1965), featuring Elvis Presley as the Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Tyronne, we meet the action movie star travelling through the Orient while promoting his new film,… Read more
Occupy first. Demands come later: Slavoj Žižek, The Guardian
What to do after the occupations of Wall Street and beyond – the protests that started far away, reached the centre and are now, reinforced, rolling back around the world?… Read more
Slavoj Zizek en Occupy Wall Street
[...] “[They are saying] we are all losers, but the true losers are down there on Wall Street. They were bailed out by billions of our money. We are called… Read more
Only Communism can save liberal democracy (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
By Slavoj Zizek, October 2011: 1989 marked not only the defeat of the Communist State-Socialism, but also the defeat of the Western Social Democracy. Nowhere is the misery of today’s… Read more
The Symptom 12
The Symptom 12 / lacan dot com – Fall 2011 Jacques-Alain Miller The Non-Existent Seminar Alain Badiou Towards a New Concept of Existence Slavoj Žižek Why the Idea and Why… Read more
Zizek Of Apes and Men: Lenin’s Enlightenment
Lenin’s legacy to be reinvented today is the politics of truth. We live in the “postmodern” era in which truth-claims as such are dismissed as an expression of hidden power-mechanisms… Read more
New Book: Democracy in What State?, Agamben et al.
From Columbia University Press: Essays by, Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Ranciere, Kristin Ross, and Slavoj Zizek “Is it meaningful to call oneself a… Read more
Book Review: Fabio Vighi – On Žižek’s Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation
On Žižek’s Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation Fabio Vighi, On Žižek’s Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation, Continuum, 2010, 189pp., $120.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780826464439. Reviewed by Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico With his… Read more
LRB · Slavoj Žižek · Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks
Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks Slavoj Žižek In one of the diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks Putin and Medvedev are compared to Batman and Robin. It’s a useful… Read more
The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism
The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman (editors) Price: $40.00 AUD $25.00 USD £16.00 GBP ISBN-13: 978-0-9806683-4-6 ISBN-ebook: 978-0-9806683-5-3 Publication date: 2010 Pages:… Read more
Slavoj Zizek vs Bernard-Henri Levy – Violence & the Left in Dark Times A Debate
Bernard-Henri Lévy, France’s “rock-star philosopher,” and Slavoj Žižek, the Slovanian “Elvis of cultural theory,” will scrutinize the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those of the future, as they argue… Read more
TOC: Angelaki, Volume 15 Issue 3 2010 (Special issue)
Topic: “The Unbearable Charm of Fragility. Philosophizing in/on Eastern Europe” Guest Editor: Costica Bradatan (The Honors College, Texas Tech University) TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Introduction: “Geography and Fragility,” by Costica… Read more
The Idea of Communism: Philosophy and Art (2010)
From June 25 to June 27, 2010 the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz hosts an interdisciplinary congress called “The Idea of Communism. Philosophy and Art”. The core event is a philosophical conference… Read more
“The Uses and Misuses of Violence” | Department of Philosophy | Loyola University New Orleans
Slavoj Zizek “The Uses and Misuses of Violence” Lecture Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Time: 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm Location: Nunemaker Auditorium, Monroe Hall Slavoj Zizek is a professor… Read more