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Slavoj Zizek - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. RSA Animate - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. Slavoj Žižek - October 12, 2010 - Why Only an Atheist Can Be a True Christian. Slavoj Zizek on Democracy Now! part 1. Negativity in Hegel and Freud. 슬라베니아 철학자, 슬라보에 지젝의 연설 - 2011년 10월 8일 "월가를 점령하라" 시위가 진행중인 주코티공원에서. << 연설문 전문 >> Slavoj Zizek and Harum Scarum. In Gene Nelson's "Harum Scarum" (1965), featuring Elvis Presley as the Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Tyronne, we meet the action movie star travelling through the Orient while promoting his new film, "Sands of the Desert".

Upon arrival, however, Elvis Presley/Johnny Tyronne is kidnapped by a gang of assassins led by a temptress "Oriental" named Aishah, who wish to hire him to carry out an assassination. Emboldened by proper "Western virtues", Elvis will do no such thing and manages to sing and dance his way out of the way of the conniving "Orientals". In an interview with Al Jazeera, Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian philosopher, made a rather abrupt staccato observation - a hit-and-run strike worthy of an action hero - very much reminiscent of the fate of Elvis Presley and his Oriental sojourn: What precisely are these "Asian values," when uttered by an Eastern European, we Asians of one sort or another may wonder?

Elvis Presley indeed. Zizek's pedigree From Zizek to Levinas to Kant. Zizek! - documentary by Atra Taylor. Slavoj Zizek: 'Now the field is open' - Talk to Al Jazeera. From the Middle East to the streets of London and cities across the US there is a discontent with the status quo. Whether it is with the iron grip of entrenched governments or the widening economic divide between the rich and those struggling to get by. But where are those so hungry for change heading? How profound is their long-term vision to transform society? Slovenian-born philosopher Slavoj Zizek, whose critical examination of both capitalism and socialism has made him an internationally recognised intellectual, speaks to Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman about the momentous changes taking place in the global financial and political system.

In his distinct and colourful manner, he analyses the Arab Spring, the eurozone crisis, the "Occupy Wall Street" movement and the rise of China. Concerned about the future of the existing western democratic capitalism Zizek believes that the current "system has lost its self-evidence, its automatic legitimacy, and now the field is open. "