Slavoj Žižek – it’s time to reject “Progress” and rebuild the Left
For many political theorists, Žižek has a status something close to a rock star: he is deeply intellectually confident, highly proficient, and...
Slavoj Žižek: How the left misread Gramsci
Now is the time of monsters.” Whether you ask Blue Labour thinkers or lazy journalists or Robert Jenrick, they...
Slavoj Žižek. Lessons from the ‘Airpocalypse’
With this exhibition as a backdrop, and in response to a joint invitation from the Museo Reina Sofía and Madrid's...
Slavoj Zizek: Welcome to the age of corridors
"Open market" is meaningless without the equal participation of all states in it. We were so used to this Western domination that we accepted it...
Philosopher Žižek calls for EU troops in Greenland
The European Union should send troops under its own command to Greenland to protect it from a US takeover, the left-wing Slovenian...
The Importance of Jacques Lacan’s Psychoanalysis in Slavoj Žižek’s Philosophy
As discussed below, Žižek deploys the Lacanian concept of the “Real” as a kind of Hegelian absolute negativity. He also turns Lacan's “quilting...
Slavoj Žižek on quantum history and the end of the past
His new book, Quantum History, is not a metaphor dressed up as physics, nor a philosopher's flirtation with science. It is an ontological wager.
Slavoj Žižek: There is no humanity without our small, everyday, seemingly meaningless rituals
Slavoj Žižek: I believe there is no humanity without our small, everyday, seemingly meaningless rituals. You're walking down the street, you see...
About Slavoj Žižek
There is nothing spontaneous about an egalitarian community of comrades—it requires hard work and full commitment. There is nothing spontaneous...
Fate No Longer Smiles on Europeans
Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher, social theorist, university professor, and public intellectual. He holds a number of academic positions, including that of...
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Philosopher and public intellectual who expressed support for aspects of the Occupy movement and engaged with its critiques of capitalism.