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The three main influences on Slavoj Zizek's work are G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Marx and Jacques Lacan 1. http://www.lacan.com/zizekchro1.htm

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SLAVOJ ZIZEK,God Without the Sacred: The Book of Job, The First Critique of Ideology | The New York Public Library

http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/slavoj-zizekgod-without-sacred-book-job-first-critique-ideology November 9, 2010 The three religions of the Book each help us to differentiate the divine from the sacred. This liberating concept culminates in Paul's claim, from Ephesians, that "our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against leaders, against authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual wickedness in the heavens." Can religious fundamentalism be overcome only with the help of an emancipatory political theology? Philosopher Slavoj Zizek debates this and other incendiary questions on the LIVE stage. This event is sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Author’s Bio Lacan: Television – let’s proceed like idiots; let’s take this title literally and ask ourselves a question, not the question, “what can we learn about TV from Lacan’s teaching?” which would get us on the wrong path of so-called applied psychoanalysis, but the inverse question, “what can we learn about Lacan’s teaching from the TV phenomenon?”

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Speculative realism is an emerging movement in contemporary philosophy which defines itself loosely in its stance of metaphysical realism against the dominant forms of post-Kantian philosophy or what it terms correlationism . [ 1 ] Speculative realism takes its name from a conference held at Goldsmiths College , University of London in April, 2007. [ 2 ] The conference was moderated by Alberto Toscano of Goldsmiths College, and featured presentations by Ray Brassier of American University of Beirut (then at Middlesex University ), Iain Hamilton Grant of the University of the West of England , Graham Harman of the American University in Cairo , and Quentin Meillassoux of the École normale supérieure in Paris. Credit for the name "speculative realism" is generally ascribed to Brassier, [ 3 ] though Meillassoux had already used the term "speculative materialism" to describe his own position. [ 4 ]

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http://www.ebbflux.com/postmodern/thinker.php?section=a#derrida It is not up to philosophy to exaust things accroding to scientific sage, to reduce the phenomena to a minimum of propositions ... Instead in philosophy we literally seek to immerse ourselves in things that are heterogeneous ... without placing those things in prefabricated categories. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance.

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Part of Nietzsche?s problem with history, science, and the knowledge drive in general is that these activities typically presuppose that "knowing" is possible, and that truth is more valuable than untruth, or appearance

Part of Nietzsche’s problem with history, science, and the knowledge drive in general is that these activities typically presuppose that "knowing" is possible, and that truth is more valuable than untruth, or appearance. It is supposed that there is another world, one free from our perceptions, which can be known if we can find an objectifying lens through which the real nature of things, i.e. inherent properties, things-in-themselves, essences, can be understood. Nietzsche sees most endeavors concerned with discovering the truth as attempts to separate the knower from the known in such a way that they can separate their perceptions (the way the world seems) from the perceived object (an entity that has an existence free from what we bring to the word.) With this separation of the world into "the world of mere appearances" and the "real world," objects are seen as things-in-themselves, with inherent meanings that are non-revisable, objective, and universal ("The Philosopher" 133).
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