There is an op-ed in today’s NY Times by Slavoj Zizek on the anniversary of the Berlin Wall entitled “20 Years of Collapse”. Zizek’s choice of Victor Kravchenko as emblem for our current cultural-political stasis is quiet bleak but his life story does seem to embody a certain zeitgeist. To crudely summarize a life: sickened [...]
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Slavoj Žižek’s First as Tragedy, Then as Farce – Talk and Book Release at Cooper Union
October 11, 2009 – 2:38 am
On Wednesday, Oct 14th at 7pm, the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek will be speaking about the current global crisis: not only the financial crisis, but the crisis of imagination the world seems to be faced with when thinking alternatives. The occasion is the release of his new book First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. The talk [...]
Will the Cat Above the Precipice Fall Down?
June 25, 2009 – 7:32 am
Here is another text on the situation in Iran. This one is by the philosopher Slavoj Žižek, now the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. It is copyright free and distribution/reposting is encouraged.
When an authoritarian regime approaches its final crisis, its dissolution as a rule follows two steps. Before [...]
The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema
January 16, 2009 – 7:19 pm
Sophie Fiennes’ The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, starring Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, is basically a three-part introductory lecture to Zizek’s thought on film, filled with clips from contemporary and classic cinema. Zizek is perhaps the world’s most famous contemporary philosopher, widely known for his method of elucidating and making relatively accessible the works of [...]
