VersoBooks.com. Slavoj Žižek - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. George Lakoff Does Capitalism Always Lead To Democracy. The left’s misguided Realrhetorik; or, Hillary Clinton: the new Michiko Kakutani « wyatt gwyon. Almost two years ago, I wrote an essay, “Realrhetorik for chicken liberals,” criticizing New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani for lambastingJames Frey, author of the Oprah-endorsed and largely fabricated memoir 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. I return to this Kakutani conflict today after coming across of a passage by Argentinean political theorist Ernesto Laclau, who puts the point I made two years ago about the dangers of the left adopting the right’s Realrhetorik (in reference to Kakutani on Frey) in clearer, if more abstract, terms: [T]he Right and the Left are not fighting at the same level. Like this: Like Loading... The poverty of the new atheism - ABC Religion & Ethics - Blog. 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. What made the atheist tradition proper so potent was its devotion to the tasks of flushing out the myriad idols, often unperceived, that clutter human society, and dismantling all the malign political, economic and sexual uses which those gods were made to serve. There seems to have been an innate sense among atheists that the Promethean quest to topple the gods demands a certain seriousness and humility of any who would undertake it. It is here that the great paradox of Marx's critique lies. How to download Conversations with Zizek (Conversations)
Žižek. The Century of the Self. 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. Kyle Minor 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).
Slavoj Žižek. 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.
People line the walls, sit in the aisles and stand three-deep at the back. There are a few middle-aged, smartly dressed people in attendance as well as a handful of old leftists with long hair and caps, but the majority of the audience are young and stylishly dishevelled, the kind of people one would expect to see at a Hot Chip or Vampire Weekend gig. They have gathered here to listen to a 61-year-old Slovenian philosopher called Slavoj Žižek, whose critique of global capitalism now stretches to more than 50 books translated into more than 20 languages.
Jacques Lacan Phantom Tshirt Zizek by PinMoonStore. Madness and Habit in German Idealism I. 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).
Slavoj Zizek: Philosophy - Key Ideas. • Key Ideas • Books: A Summary He was born the only child of middle-class bureaucrats (who hoped he would become an economist) on 21 March 1949 in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia and, at that time, part of Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia was, then, under the rule of Marshal Tito (1892-1980), one of the more 'liberal' communist countries in the Eastern Bloc, although, as Zizek points out, the freedoms the regime granted its subjects were rather ambivalent, inducing in the population a form of pernicious self-regulation. One aspect of state control that did have a positive effect on Zizek, however, was the law which required film companies to submit to local university archives a copy of every film they wished to distribute. Zizek was, therefore, able to watch every American and European release and establish a firm grasp of the traditions of Hollywood which have served him so well since. .
Authors@Google: Slajov Zizek. Slavoj Žižek. The Return To Hegel. 2009 1/16. Ian Ink. Certainly marked by the work of Jacques Lacan, much as by the writing on Jacques Lacan, lacanian ink has been going for 19 consecutive years.
And lacanian ink belongs in NYC, it was born here, it is done here. In this particular sense I was happy to realize how, together with a number of other journals, lacanian ink has been a witness to contemporary culture in the last decade. Today, there are few of them that continue. Bomb and lacanian ink are two of them. Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Slavoj Žižek, Ph.D., is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a visiting professor at a number of American Universities (Columbia, Princeton, New School for Social Research, New York University, University of Michigan).
Slavoj Žižek recieved his Ph.D. in Philosophy in Ljubljana studying Psychoanalysis. He also studied at the University of Paris. Slavoj Žižek is a cultural critic and philosopher who is internationally known for his innovative interpretations of Jacques Lacan. Slavoj Žižek has been called the ‘Elvis Presley’ of philosophy as well as an 'academic rock star'.