Slavoj Žižek – Collected Recordings: Recent Episodes
Slavoj Žižek – Collected Recordings
To conclude this years discourse programme, Elevate Festival welcomes Slavoj Žižek to Orpheum Graz. In his lecture “Only A Catastrophe Can Save Us” he asks, in view of global crises and swelling doomsday scenarios: What if the great catastrophe is not just a threat to be avoided; but something necessary to wake us up? Moderated by Viennese director and author Sebastian Brauneis
This is a recording of a Zoom presentation from 21st December 2022 for the Walden Korea Lecture Series, as part of the International School of Philosophy in ASIA (ISPA)
Internationally renowned philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek returns to Seton Hall for a public talk entitled “Why Do We Enjoy Feeling Ashamed?”
Žižek’s paper was delivered the largest Slovenian annual foreign policy event, the Bled Strategic Forum (BSF), on 29th August 2022, in a special “Night owl session”, followed by a dialogue with Guillaume Klossa on the future of Europe.
Are we above nature? How can we combat extremism? How do extreme ideologies often become their opposite? In a lively discussion between Slavoj Žižek and Yuval Noah Harari, the two thinkers debate extremist ideology, our role in nature, the notions of good and evil, and catastrophes of the past. The conversation is moderated by Günes Taylor, and was filmed on June 2, 2022 as part of the HowTheLightGetsIn Festival.
Isn’t Ukraine too much hurt because of its desire for freedom? We will be able to discuss this live with a lecturer who is in the TOP-25 of the world’s best intellectuals according to Prospect Magazine (UK) and Foreign Policy (USA). He was nicknamed “Elvis of Theory of Culture” and “the most dangerous philosopher in the world.”
Slavoj Zizek and Vivek Chibber debate the role of ideology in promoting capitalist stability. Does capitalist ideology prevent workers from rising up? Or does the class structure within capitalism make non-collective forms of resistance, or worse, resignation, more likely than collective action?
Slavoj Žižek is considered one of the best-known, but also most controversial philosophers of the present day, who completely overturns the common way of thinking in his texts. Yves Bossart talks to him about the theories behind his surprising contemporary analyses.
Slavoj Zizek, Todd McGowan, and Russ Sbriglia explore the points of greatest strength and greatest weakness in the thought of Jacques Lacan. They focus on the notion of surplus enjoyment, the formulas of sexuation, and the four discourses. They frame this discussion with analysis of the current Russian aggression against Ukraine, which they look at in psychoanalytic terms.
Discussion with Slovenian Philosopher, Slavoj Zizek. Co-hosted by Russell Sbriglia, Ben Burgis, Adnan Husain and Ann Li
Ben Burgis and the GTAA crew talk about Hitchens and lesser figures who “left the left.” Slovenian anti-capitalist philosopher Slavoj Zizek returns to the show to talk about subjects ranging from communism to AOC’s boyfriend’s feet. There’s a preview of the last patron episode w/Conrad Hamilton, Professor Jennifer Burgis comes on for a philosophy segment, and Ethan Hershenfeld comes on to hangout and watch clips of William Lane Craig and Ben Shapiro in the postgame for patrons
Briahna Joy Gray asks the Slovenian philosopher to revisit his stance on Biden and Chomsky’s vote blue no matter who take from exactly a year ago. Is it enough for the left to merely hold Biden accountable to his own campaign promises? Or should somebody be demanding more? Perhaps something more in line with what the people actually want? Brie also asks Žižek about Andrew Yang’s Forward Party and vote withholding, Žižek stance on vaccine mandates, Julian Assange, lab leak theory, the left’s confused immigration policy, and student loan debt
Inauguration of the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies on 14 October 2021 with the Inaugural Lecture by Slavoj Žižek.
The pandemic has not only amplified the ego’s visibility obligations—sitting at home, lonely and tired, trying to sprinkle energy on Zoom—but it has transformed the global capitalist order. How does this combination of fatigue and uncontrollable change affect our ability to desire?
Ben, Russell Sbriglia and Matt McManus interviewed Slavoj Žižek about his debate with Jordan Peterson. Producer Forrest joined at the end to ask some audience questions.
This discussion is centered around a new text of Lacanian thought entitled The Desire of Psychoanalysis by Gabriel Tupinambá. A symposium was held on May 7th and May 8th 2021 to elaborate some of the main theoretical issues raised in the text
A talk delivered for the Kobani University in Syria via Zoom (due to covid-19 circumstances) on 18th April 2021
Run by the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, the internationally renowned London Critical Theory Summer School enables graduate students and academics to engage in a two-week course of study with acclaimed critical thinkers. This is a recording of a Zoom discussion among various authors from 2021.
Slavoj Žižek visits Russell Sbriglia’s graduate seminar on “Literary Criticism and Ideology Critique.” From the Critical Theory youtube channel
Zizek spoke to Oli Dugmore about Reddit v Wall Street, whether patriotism and socialism are compatible and a possible impending cultural revolution on the PoliticsJOE youtube channel
This conversation with Slavoj Zizek was inspired by a previous interview with Michael Albert. After discussing Albert’s ideas about participatory economics, Douglas Lain mentioned that unlike Chomsky and Albert, he believed that critical theory was important to the struggle for … Continue reading →
This lecture series is launched to help connect critical postmedia studies to a broader audience by the Critical Postmedia Research Network
Todd McGowan talks with Slavoj Zizek and Russell Sbriglia about Hegel as a political theorist in relation to Marx. They debate the extent to which Hegel can offer a paradigm for challenging capitalism, as well as discuss the most effective … Continue reading →
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy
Red Scare chats with philosopher Slavoj Zizek about his recent books Pandemic! and Pandemic! 2
Hegel’s 250th Anniversary: ‘Too late?’ | International Philosophical Conference in Ljubljana, September 7th – 9th, 2020
The Department of German at NYU, the NYU Department of Comparative Literature, and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a discussion between Slavoj Žižek, Rebecca Comay, and Frank Ruda which will revolve around Comay and Ruda’s book The Dash—The Other Side … Continue reading →
In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of G.W.F. Hegel, Slavoj Žižek speaks to Shahidha Bari about the philosophical giant that changed our way of thinking about posthumanism.Published by Intelligence Squared
Pandemic! Protests! Panic! Moderated by Samo Burja. Live streamed on the Big Think youtube channel
Žižek has a virtual sit down with Patrick Bet-David on the Youtube live stream of Valuetainment
Slavoj Žižeks first stage play “The Three Lives of Antigone” premiered in Germany at the FFT Düsseldorf, by the ensemble of the AGORA Theater. After one of the shows, the Slovenian philosopher spoke with the director Felix Ensslin about his work. … Continue reading →
Part 1 of the RISE OF NEW MASTERS Masterclass. Sadly, part 2 wasn’t recorded.Birkbeck, University of London
Interview by Michael Brooks. Published on The Michael Brooks Show Youtube Channel. Original Video
Interview by Douglas Lain with commentary. Published on the Zero Books Youtube Channel Original Video
As part of NYU Skirball Talks, the NYU Department of German and Deutsches Haus at NYU present Skirball Talks: Slavoj Žižek: “Disorder Under Heaven.” New York, USA
Žižek is a guest on the Chapo Trap House Podcast to discuss the 1994 Jim Carrey film “The Mask”
Žižek dissects our current political and social climate, discussing everything from Jordan Peterson and sex ‘unicorns’ to Greta Thunberg and Chairman Mao. This is Žižek’s attempt to elucidate the major political issues of the day from a truly radical left … Continue reading →
hosted by the The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland
Delivered at “Axworthy Distinguished Lecture Series on Social Justice and the Public Good” University of Winnipeg, Canada
Slavoj Žižek, Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS. Saas-Fee, Switzerland. August 3rd, 2018. Public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought. Saas-Fe, Switzerland
Visit to Film and Television Studies Program at University of Vermont, Full talk title: “Hegel with Neuralink, Will our Immersion into Singularity Save Us from the Fall?”
Part 2 of “Discord Under Heaven: A Masterclass with Slavoj Zizek” Birkbeck, University of London
Part 1 of “Discord Under Heaven: A Masterclass with Slavoj Zizek” Birkbeck, University of London
Debate between Peterson and Žižek. Both start with a 30 minute introduction, followed by a 10 minute reply, followed by discussion. Sony Center Toronto, Canada
Public lecture by Slavoj Žižek within the framework of the ICI’s core project “Tension/Spannung” Berlin, Germany
During the third Talk Europe Robert Pfaller, Slavoj Žižek, Peter Pilz & Judith Ransmayr had a discussion about the future of europe. Unfortunately, everybody except Žižek talked in german, so I had to cut them out. You can find the full debate … Continue reading →
Reality and Its Transcendental Supplement. Talk given at the conference “Parallax. The Dependence of Reality on Its Subjective Constitution” at the Munich School of Philosophy, Germany.
“Fantasies of Capital: Alienation, Enjoyment, Psychoanalysis” — A Jnanapravaha Mumbai Conference. Day 2 / Session 3 Mumbai, India
The NYU Department of German and Deutsches Haus at NYU present “The Fate of the Commons: A Trotskyite View” with Slavoj Žižek as part of NYU Skirball’s “On Your Marx” festival in celebration of Karl Marx’s 200th birthday. Skirball Center … Continue reading →
In argentina, Zizek was interviewed about Perón, Trump and Chávez, sexuality and metoo.
Žižek gives an online interview with Tim Foley, in support of Julian Assange. The event took place over two days (June 2nd and 3rd) and was originally streamed live by Suzi 3D
The lecture was given as part of promotion of Žižek’s book with the same title – First as Tragedy, Then as Farce – analysing how the tragedy of September 11 moved US to the farcical 2008 financial crisis. Cooper Union, … Continue reading →
Part 2 of the masterclass: Sex and the Failed Absolute Is it possible for us, finite and mortal humans, to achieve some kind of contact with the Absolute? Birkbeck, University of London
Part 1 of the masterclass: Sex and the Failed Absolute Is it possible for us, finite and mortal humans, to achieve some kind of contact with the Absolute? As far as I know the second session was not recorded. Please … Continue reading →
This is a varied talk, including subjectivity, sex, robots and rights Stuttgart, Germany
The Birkbeck School of Law and The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities London, England
Žižek’s last ‘Like a Thief in the Night’ masterclass. In this lecture, Žižek returns to the question of radical change, digitalisation of social space, political correctness and of course manners. Lecture was delivered at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities … Continue reading →
Lecture at Babylon in Berlin during LUBITSCH FROM BERLIN, the first international conference on Lubitsch in germany
This lecture was the keynote at the Lack II conference organised at Colorado College, delivered at Celeste Theatre
The talk was a part of the project “Central Eastern Europe. Transformation – Integration – Revolution“ in Warsaw
In an interview with the german newspaper Neues Deutschland, Žižek talks about DDR-pornography, #metoo, the new blade runner movie and robots. The first question he was asked is in german and was “You introduced the term disparities. Does Wolfgang Fritz Haug … Continue reading →
Žižek appeared alongside Alenka Zupančič and Mladen Dolar to discuss the varying topics from philosophy and psychoanalysis to Trump and the Soviet Revolution Deutsches Haus, New York University
International conference “1917/2017. Revolutions, Communist Legacies and the Spectres of the Future” October 24-26.10.2017 European University at St. Petersburg
The School of Law and the Birkbeck Institute of the Humanities are very pleased to announce this historic event, featuring two of Europe’s foremost intellectuals in conversation with each other on their recent work. While Slavoj Žižek is a regular … Continue reading →
Masterclass: Masterclass: Transcendental Subjectivity, Sexual Difference, Brain Sciences Part 2. The two classes will examine how Lacan’s teaching enables us to grasp sexual difference as the constitutive feature of transcendental subjectivity, plus how recent advances in brain sciences continue to rely … Continue reading →
Masterclass: Masterclass: Transcendental Subjectivity, Sexual Difference, Brain Sciences Part 1. The two classes will examine how Lacan’s teaching enables us to grasp sexual difference as the constitutive feature of transcendental subjectivity, plus how recent advances in brain sciences continue to rely … Continue reading →
The philosopher Slavoj Zizek was interviewed in a London café in July 2017 by Anja Steinbauer and Katy Baker from Philosophy Now magazine. Edited transcript from Philosophy Now Issue 122 here: https://philosophynow.org/issues/122/Slavoj_Zizek
We are often told that psychoanalysis is dead. Outdated scientifically, in that the Freudian model of the mind has been superseded by neurobiology; outdated clinically, where the talking cure has lost ground to drug treatment or behavioural therapy; outdated socially, … Continue reading →
At The European Graduate School / EGS. Public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought Saas-Fee/Switzerland
Slavoj Žižek insists on the analysis of contemporary fascism, focusing on the question of the reception of the totalitarian fascination of the NSK at a time when the resurgence of fascism (ideal of supremacy Racialism and exacerbated nationalism) seems to … Continue reading →
The lecture took place at University of Ghent, Belgium organized by the Students and freethinkers collective as part of the TSG ‘s Antagonistic Festival.
Part 2 of the Masterclass “You have to be stupid to see that’: Ideology in Daily Life” Birkbeck, University of London
Part 1 of the Masterclass “You have to be stupid to see that’: Ideology in Daily Life” Birkbeck, University of London
Lecture during the conference “The Actuality of the Absolute: Hegel, Out Untimely Contemporary” (10-12.05.2013) Birkbeck, University of London
“Let us be realists and demand the impossible: Communism.” Opera Theatre, Sydney, Australia
A conversation with Slavoj Žižek and Jake Matatyaou discussing state sovereignty, borders, migration, and global capital at SCI-Arc
at the First Annual Navayana Lecture Sarai-CSDC, Delhi (The recording stops abruptly. I couldn’t find the rest of the lecture)
Part 1 of “I’m watching you” at International Author’s Stage The Slovenian star philosopher Slavoj Žižek in the first of two conversations on surveillance with interviewer Paul Holdengräber, director of Public Programs at the New York Public Library. Copenhagen, Admiral … Continue reading →
“In 2011, we were witnessing (and participating) in a series of shattering events, from the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street movements, from the UK suburban protests to Breivik’s ideological madness. 2011 was thus the year of dreaming dangerously, … Continue reading →
Slavoj Zizek argues that the neoliberalism died twice: first as a political doctrine in the tragedy of the attacks of 9/11; then its farcical collapse as an economic theory when the meltdown at the end of 2008 brought an end … Continue reading →
Lecture by Slavoj Zizek on the Courage of Hopelessness and subsequent discussion with Slavoj Zizek and Marli Huijer on Respect. G10 van de Economie en Filosophie, Amsterdam
In this lecture, Žižek interrogates the religious impulse and delves further into his notion of of religious atheism as a response to techno-singularity. What is more, Žižek also announces his new theoretical book “The Incontinence of the Void” that is … Continue reading →
This talk considers the ways in which Marx’s notion of “surplus-value” bears on Jacques Lacan’s idea of a “surplus-enjoyment” which, rather than a simple stepping up of pleasure, designates an additional pleasure obtained by its very deferral. These insights, it … Continue reading →
In the Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) of Harman and his colleagues, the human subject is redefined according to the pressures of a “flat ontology” that treats all objects equally. In opposition to OOO, Žižek upholds the pivotal role of the subject as theorized … Continue reading →
In New York on the last day of an American tour, absorbing the demise of Yankee Stadium and maybe of Wall Street as we thought we knew it, Zizek’s talk is a blast-furnace but not a blur. The theme through … Continue reading →
In a new book, Against the Double Blackmail, in response to Europe’s refugee crisis, philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that the left must shed its liberal taboos in favour of global, class solidarity. At a Guardian Live event, Gary Younge sat … Continue reading →
Part 3 of the Masterclass 23, 25 & 26.03.2016 While the global political and social situation is getting more and more explosive, emancipatory struggles are more and more hampered by ideological prejudices. This is why some ruthless clarifications are necessary. … Continue reading →
Is pleasure a rotten idea, mired in negativity and lack, which should be abandoned in favor of a new concept of desire? Or is desire itself fundamentally a matter of lack, absence, and loss? This is one of the crucial … Continue reading →
Public Lecture a the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities Birkbeck, University of London
Part 3 of the Masterclass: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis In the entire span of his teaching, Lacan was engaged in an intense debate with philosophy and philosophers, from ancient Greek materialists to Plato, from Stoics to Thomas Acquinas, from Descartes … Continue reading →
Part 2 of the Masterclass: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis with a contribution from Frank Ruda Birkbeck, University of London
Zizeks latest book is Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences. Turning the Deleuzian terminology around he analyzes these organs without bodies in the work of Hitchcock and in films such as Fight Club, identifying a Deleuze closer to the … Continue reading →
“God Without the Sacred: The Book of Job, The First Critique of Ideology” – a lecture by Slavoj Zizek at New York Public Library on November 9, 2010.
Slavoj Zizek examines modern evil through a multitude of variations on a single motive: home is evil. For Zizek, evil is not primarily a property of persons but evil has to be defined in topological terms. Evil is a certain … Continue reading →
Slavoj Zizek is the guest on The Zero Squared Podcast hosted by Douglas Lain as they discuss the flak he’s received for a few of his Lacanian interventions into politics recently, Marx’s Labor Theory of Value, and his most current book … Continue reading →
Deutsches Haus at New York University and NYU German Department present Racial Enjoyments: What the Liberal Left Doesn’t Want to Hear – November 2016 Introduction by Avital Ronell
“Idee des Kommunismus” – To Begin from The Beginning, or, How to get rid of Ghosts from the XXth Century Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, Berlin
Philosophers Nigel Warburton and Slavoj Žižek join Jela Krečič to discuss her new novel, ‘None Like Her’, a hapless tale of the fruitless search for a perfect partner. The nature of love and marriage, as well as comedy are hot … Continue reading →
Slavoj Žižek discusses his new book Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors: Against the Double Blackmail with Hari Kunzru at the Brooklyn Public Library
As guest in the Think Again Podcast hosted byJason Gots, Zizek argues against liberal notions of tolerance
The relationship of rage, rebellion and new power forms a kind of dialectic trias of revolutionary process.
Part 1 of the Masterclass: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Although psychoanalysis is not philosophy, its subversive dimension is grounded in the fact that it is not simply a particular science or practice but has radical consequences for philosophy: psychoanalysis is … Continue reading →
A public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought at the European Graduate School EGS, Saas-Fee/Switzerland and Valetta/Malta. 2016.
The Red Zone visited Slavoj Žižek in his apartment in Ljubljana and asked about the current developments in the former Soviet Union, but the conversation soon went beyond Stalin and Putin. RFE/RL
Žižek discusses the pitfalls of modern-day power with reference to the opera. Southbank Centre
Slavoj Žižek joins TIFF to speak about philosophy, the Syrian refugee crisis in Europe, and how cinema can serve an important role in understanding contemporary cross-cultural conflict.
Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours In this talk Professor Žižek will talk about his new book, Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours. From within the safety of Europe Žižek argues we … Continue reading →
Part 2 of the Masterclass: Surplus-Value, Surplus-Enjoyment, Surplus-Knowledge Jacques Lacan located the origin of his key notion of plus-de-jouir (surplus-enjoyment) in Marx’s notion of surplus-value, and it is worth exploring in detail the homology of the two notions, adding a third … Continue reading →
Part 1 of the Masterclass: Surplus-Value, Surplus-Enjoyment, Surplus-Knowledge Jacques Lacan located the origin of his key notion of plus-de-jouir (surplus-enjoyment) in Marx’s notion of surplus-value, and it is worth exploring in detail the homology of the two notions, adding a third … Continue reading →
Hegelian Battles – Lecture 3: Hegel in Athens: what would Hegel have said about our predicament?The battle for Hegel goes on – new interpretations are emerging which perhaps pose an even greater threat to Hegel’s legacy than the usual rejections … Continue reading →
Hegelian Battles – Lecture 2: What is Reconciliation? Hegel Against Schiller The battle for Hegel goes on – new interpretations are emerging which perhaps pose an even greater threat to Hegel’s legacy than the usual rejections of Hegel. This series … Continue reading →
Hegelian Battles – Lecture 1: Against Recognition: A Critique of the Liberal Reading of Hegel (Pippin, Brandom) The battle for Hegel goes on – new interpretations are emerging which perhaps pose an even greater threat to Hegel’s legacy than the usual … Continue reading →
Sept 25, 2015 Istanbul. Conference organized by MonoKL and the Municipality of Kartal district
This is an audio recording of an event held at 21. November 2015 in Berlin, where Slavoj Žižek and Jela Krečič Žižek spoke in a debate titled »The Birth of Comedy out of the Spirit of Despair«, moderated by Matthias Göritz
Held on 21. November 2015 at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin. A continuation of the ‘Europe is Kaput. Long live Europe!’ panel with Yanis Varoufakis & Julian Assange
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek and former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange discuss Europe’s future. With the recent economic crisis in Greece, unprecedented challenges to centralised European policy, and the lack of consensus on the ongoing refugee … Continue reading →
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Department of German at NYU present a talk by Slavoj Žižek who will speak on “Is Hegel Dead—Or Are We Dead in the Eyes of Hegel? A Hegelian View of the Present Age.” Introduced … Continue reading →
Audio recording of Slavoj Žižek’s talks in Istanbul Modern Museum on 25th July 2015, organized by Encore Publishing
Slavoj Žižek’s third lecture at the London Critical Theory Summer School. Birkbeck
Slavoj Žižek’s second lecture at the London Critical Theory Summer School. Birkbeck
First lecture from The London Critical Theory Summer School at Birkbeck with comments on Greece. Held on 6th July 2015
Slavoj Žižek in the second of two conversations with the popular and charismatic interviewer Paul Holdengräber, director of Public Programs at the New York Public Library The Royal Library, Copenhagen
On May 5, 2015 the Slovenian political philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek gave a talk at the IWM, chaired by Sławomir Sierakowski, founder of the “Krytyka Polityczna” movement
When a philosopher deals with another philosopher or philosophy, his or her stance is never the one of dialogue, but always the one of division, of drawing the line that separates truth from falsity – from Plato whose focus is the … Continue reading →
Two experts on Joseph Stalin – one a Marxist philosopher, the other a historian (Stephen Kotkin) – come together to discuss the Soviet dictator’s origins, and his painful mark on history
Slavoj Žižek held this lecture at Litteraturhuset in Oslo, Norway on December 12, 2014. It is part of a series of lectures on the topic of universalism, organized by Litteraturhuset. Other lecturers in the series include Wang Hui, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, … Continue reading →
Deutsches Haus at New York University presents: Slavoj Žižek: The Hegelian Wound Friday, September 26th, 2014 at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Film Center at NYU For Hegel, spirit is the wound of nature, it derails every natural balance, … Continue reading →
Conference by Slavoj Žižek at the Faculty of Fine Arts University of Porto FBAUP on “THE FREEDOM OF A FORCED CHOICE”
Towards a Materialist Notion of Freedom: Neurosciences and Freedom Birkbeck, University of London
Towards a Materialist Notion of Freedom: Freedom – For Whom? To do What? Birkbeck, University of London
Žižek discusses his book by the same title ‘Event: A Philosophical Journey Through A Concept’, going through such notions as violence, fundamentalism, ideology, political correctness, freedom, and of course event. From the Free Library of Philadelphia
As a guest lecturer for the Kyung Hee University Lecture series, Slovene philosopher Slavoj Zizek visited Kyung Hee University on June 27. Drawing a large audience of over three thousand, professor Ziezek, a world-renowned scholar in the field of political … Continue reading →
Part 2 of “I’m watching you” at International Author’s Stage Zizek says he doesn’t care about surveillance. He simply believes that it’s not efficient and possible if government controlled secret police reads and analyze all our data. If you take … Continue reading →
Three world renowned philosophers: Arthur Kroker, Brenda Longfellow and Slavoj Žižek consider the profound ecological and economic issues that confront the Planet in 2015. The symposium is inspired by the Wim Wenders film of the same title, Until the End … Continue reading →
Slavoj Zizek talking about the theoretical richness of Lacan’s four discourses: the master’s discourse, the hysteric’s discourse, the university discourse, and the analyst’s discourse. What follows is a prolonged discussion of the various guises of the object small a in … Continue reading →
Hegel Lecture at the Dahlem Humanities Center (DHC) at Freie Universität Berlin. 31.03.2011
Slavoj Žižek talking about object small a, digital civilization, desire, psychoanalysis, prosthetic extension, virtual reality, projection, science, language, universality, sexuality, in relation to the authors Freud, Lacan, Kierkegaard and Hegel. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the … Continue reading →
Masterclass – Lecture 3 – Communism: An Idea that Divides – Struggle Towards a New Master Birkbeck, University of London
Masterclass – Lecture 2 – Communism: An Idea that Divides – Ideology: The Terror of Permissive Biopolitics Birkbeck, University of London
Masterclass – Lecture 1 – Communism: An Idea that Divides – Economy: The Vicious Cycle of Capitalist Reproduction Birkbeck, University of London
Although most of the critiques to which my work was exposed in the last years are “so-called,” fast denunciations not worthy of a serious reply, some of them do at least raise pertinent questions : which, exactly, is the status … Continue reading →
One of the topics dealt with here is just how easily ecological disasters are incorporated into the capitalist “system”, thereby casting doubt on whether capitalism will naturally cease to exist as the result of the ecological crises it is criticized … Continue reading →
Zizek is given the floor to show of his polemic style and whirlwind-like performance. The Giant of Ljubljana is bombarded with clips of popular media images and quotes by modern-day thinkers revolving around four major issues: the economical crisis, environment, … Continue reading →
Raising questions on ideology and its omnipresence in every day life – as he points out in his penetrating observations of quotidian pop culture, from the McCain campaign’s hijacking of the “change” banner, to the Dark Knight, to Kim Jong … Continue reading →
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls “enlightened doomsaying,” has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis from within, arguing that it is our lopsided … Continue reading →
The following is the full version of a lecture delivered by Slavoj Zizek on Architecture and Aesthetics in which he talks about a range of issues including, but not limited to, the meanings and implications of public spaces (what he … Continue reading →
Žižek and Paul A. Taylor (author of Žižek and The Media) explore the difficulty of conveying philosophical ideas within today’s media. Institute of Contemporary Arts The Mall, London
Death of God theology is a predominately Christian theological movement, origination in the 1960’s in which God is posited as having ceased to exist, often at the crucifixion. It can also refer to a theology which includes a disbelief in … Continue reading →
Zizek claims that we need to repeat Hegel (not return) and reinterpret Hegel as a dialectical materialist and not an idealist of absolute knowing. How can we use Hegel to traverse the ideological fantasy and act in accordance to the … Continue reading →