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In one of his first public events since being held under house arrest, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in London Saturday for a conversation with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, moderated by Democracy Now!’
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The Sublime Object of Ideology , New York: Verso, 1989. This is Zizek's first major work in English and it remains one of his most accessible books.
In his stunning, controversial recent article for the New York Times , author China Mieville describes the London Docklands, the definitive Thatcherite regenerated playground of the rich as “a thuggish and hideous middle-finger-flipped glass-and-steel at the poor of the East End, every night a Moloch's urinal dripping sallow light on the Isle of Dogs”.
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George Lakoff Does Capitalism Always Lead To Democracy
:''"Lakoff" and "Professor Lakoff" redirect here. For the sociolinguist, see Robin Lakoff .'' George P.Almost two years ago, I wrote an essay, “ Realrhetorik for chicken liberals ,” criticizing New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani for lambasting James Frey , author of the Oprah-endorsed and largely fabricated memo ir A Million Little Pieces , using what I call “Realrhetorik”: a rhetoric that adopts as the ultimate measure of correctness a provable correspondence to the forced and faux materiality of “the real.” Tangibly this means that for Kakutani, Frey, in fabricating a memoir, has betrayed an abstract “reality” rather than, say, his readers.
The left’s misguided Realrhetorik; or, Hillary Clinton: the new Michiko Kakutani « wyatt gwyon
They just don't make atheists like they used to. The form of divine disbelief popularized today as the "New Atheism" is a far cry from the more robust and morally serious tradition that runs from Xenophanes and Qoheleth - and perhaps even the writer of the Book of Job - reaching its apogee with Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, but still retaining vestiges of its original vitality in the work of Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zizek and, somewhat differently, Francois Laruelle.
The poverty of the new atheism - ABC Religion & Ethics - Blog
The Century of the Self | Watch Free Documentary Online
This series is about how those in power have used Freud’s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy.
SLAVOJ ZIZEK, God Without the Sacred: The Book of Job, The First Critique of Ideology | HTMLGIANT
The latest installment in the New York Public Library’s Three Faiths Exhibition ( some of which is available online here ) is a 106 minute lecture by Slavoj Zizek which is among the most plainspoken and accessible Slavoj Zizek lectures I’ve ever heard ( click here for the lecture ).
A clip from Astra Taylor's film Examined Life which features Slavoj Zizek The large lecture hall of the French Institute in Barcelona is full to overflowing.
Slavoj Žižek | Interview | Culture | The Observer
Zizek’s Preface to our Hegel Book (with Columbia University Press) « Objet petit a
This preface will appear in Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics, and Dialectic , edited by Zizek/Crockett/Davis… To be published in 2011.The shift from Aristotle to Kant, to modernity with its subject as pure autonomy: the status of habit changes from organic inner rule to something mechanic, the opposite of human freedom: freedom cannot ever become habit(ual), if it becomes a habit, it is no longer true freedom (which is why Thomas Jefferson wrote that, if people are to remain free, they have to rebel against the government every couple of decades). This eventuality reaches its apogee in Christ, who is "the figure of a pure event, the exact opposite of the habitual". [1]
Slavoj Zizek - Madness and Habit in German Idealism I
The three main influences on Slavoj Zizek's work are G.W.F.