CENTENARY LECTURE SERIES VALEDICTORY ADDRESS
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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
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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)
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Internationally renowned philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek returns to Seton Hall for a public talk entitled “Why Do We Enjoy Feeling Ashamed?”
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Discussion with Slovenian Philosopher, Slavoj Zizek. Co-hosted by Russell Sbriglia, Ben Burgis, Adnan Husain and Ann Li
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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
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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
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Inauguration of the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies on 14 October 2021 with the Inaugural Lecture by Slavoj Žižek.
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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?
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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.
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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
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A talk delivered for the Kobani University in Syria via Zoom (due to covid-19 circumstances) on 18th April 2021
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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.
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Slavoj Žižek visits Russell Sbriglia’s graduate seminar on “Literary Criticism and Ideology Critique.”
From the Critical Theory youtube channel
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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
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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 socialism and mentioned that Slavoj Zizek’s Hegelian leftism was particularly interesting. Albert disagreed. In an effort to clear the air, Lain invited Zizek and Albert to appear on the channel and discuss the matter. Only Zizek agreed to appear on the Zero Books youtube channel.
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This lecture series is launched to help connect critical postmedia studies to a broader audience by the Critical Postmedia Research Network
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Interview by Robert Rowland Smith in an exclusive How To Academy Event.
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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 interpretations of Hegel
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Interview by Owen Jones on the Owen Jones youtube channel
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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
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Interview by the Chapo Trap House Podcast
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Red Scare chats with philosopher Slavoj Zizek about his recent books Pandemic! and Pandemic! 2
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Interview by Brian Wong for the Oxford Political Review
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Hegel’s 250th Anniversary: ‘Too late?’ | International Philosophical Conference in Ljubljana, September 7th – 9th, 2020
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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 of Absolute Knowing.
Deutsches Haus at NYU
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Interview by Dr. Robert Eikmeyer on the Museum Hegel-Haus facebook live stream
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Interview by Robert Rowland Smith for the How To Academy youtube channel
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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
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Pandemic! Protests! Panic! Moderated by Samo Burja.
Live streamed on the Big Think youtube channel
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Žižek has a virtual sit down with Patrick Bet-David on the Youtube live stream of Valuetainment
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Interview on the Michael Brooks Show Episode 135
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in conversation with Renata Ávila for the DiEM25 Live Stream
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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. Moderation: Kathrin Tiedemann.
Düsseldorf, Germany
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Interview by Jela Krečič
Malmö Stadtsbibliotek, Sweden
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Part 1 of the RISE OF NEW MASTERS Masterclass. Sadly, part 2 wasn’t recorded.
Birkbeck, University of London
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Speech and debate with Tyler Cowen at the The 2019 Holberg Debate
Bergen, Norway
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Interview by Michael Brooks. Published on The Michael Brooks Show Youtube Channel. Original Video
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Interview by Douglas Lain with commentary. Published on the Zero Books Youtube Channel Original Video
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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
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Žižek is a guest on the Chapo Trap House Podcast to discuss the 1994 Jim Carrey film “The Mask”
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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 position.
Institute for the Radical Imagination
New York, USA
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Interview by JOE on Youtube
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at the Bristol Festival of Ideas
Bristol, England
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hosted by the The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland
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Delivered at “Axworthy Distinguished Lecture Series on Social Justice and the Public Good” University of Winnipeg, Canada
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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
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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?”
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Part 2 of “Discord Under Heaven: A Masterclass with Slavoj Zizek”
Birkbeck, University of London
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Part 1 of “Discord Under Heaven: A Masterclass with Slavoj Zizek”
Birkbeck, University of London
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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
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Public lecture by Slavoj Žižek within the framework of the ICI’s core project “Tension/Spannung”
Berlin, Germany
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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 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udqlXkBV6fQ
Marxpalast, Vienna
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A conversation between Daniel Jackson and Slavoj Žižek, broadcast live on Twitch
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For his 70th birthday RT interviewed Slavoj Žižek
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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.
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“Fantasies of Capital: Alienation, Enjoyment, Psychoanalysis” — A Jnanapravaha Mumbai Conference.
Day 2 / Session 3
Mumbai, India
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New York Public Library, New York
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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 for Performing Arts, New York
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In argentina, Zizek was interviewed about Perón, Trump and Chávez, sexuality and metoo.
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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
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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, New York
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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
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Cambridge
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On ideology, politics, and Beckett
at Seton Hall University, New Jersey
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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 mail me if you know more!
Birkbeck, University of London
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at The European Graduate School / EGS
Saas-Fee, Switzerland
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This is a varied talk, including subjectivity, sex, robots and rights
Stuttgart, Germany
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The Birkbeck School of Law and The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
London, England
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Speech during the Heartland Festival via Heartland Podcast #15
Kvaerndrup, Denmark
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Live stream at the 2018 4th Biennial Zizek Studies Conference in Athens, GA
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School of Artistic Professions at the Círculo de Bellas Artes
Madrid, Spain
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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 in London
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Lecture at Babylon in Berlin during LUBITSCH FROM BERLIN, the first international conference on Lubitsch in germany
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This lecture was the keynote at the Lack II conference organised at Colorado College, delivered at Celeste Theatre
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The talk was a part of the project “Central Eastern Europe. Transformation – Integration – Revolution“ in Warsaw
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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 now have to rewrite his historical-critical dictionary of marxism?”
Maulwurf means mole
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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
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International conference “1917/2017. Revolutions, Communist Legacies and the Spectres of the Future” October 24-26.10.2017
European University at St. Petersburg
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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 presence at Birkbeck, this will be Jean-Claude Milner’s only second visit here and the first time that the two philosophers will address each other’s work in front of a public audience.
Birkbeck, University of London
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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 on transcendental presuppositions. The question to be discussed is: how will the new results of brain sciences, as well as the digitalization of our lives, affect subjectivity, especially in its political dimension?
Birkbeck, University of London
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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 on transcendental presuppositions. The question to be discussed is: how will the new results of brain sciences, as well as the digitalization of our lives, affect subjectivity, especially in its political dimension?
Birkbeck, University of London
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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
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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, where the idea that we are repressed by the norms of others is no longer stocked in today’s supermarket of free choices. But perhaps the moment of psychoanalysis has only just arrived.
Emmanuel Centre, London
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at Kyeonghee University, Seoul
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at Kyeonghee University, Seoul
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At The European Graduate School / EGS. Public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought Saas-Fee/Switzerland
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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 begin to shape the new ideological landscape of post-Brexit Europe and the refugee crisis
Raina Sofía Museum, Madrid
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Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid
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at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank, London
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The lecture took place at University of Ghent, Belgium organized by the Students and freethinkers collective as part of the TSG ‘s Antagonistic Festival.
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London
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Lecture during the Wiener Festwochen. AK Bildungszentrum, Vienna
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Part 2 of the Masterclass “You have to be stupid to see that’: Ideology in Daily Life”
Birkbeck, University of London
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Part 1 of the Masterclass “You have to be stupid to see that’: Ideology in Daily Life”
Birkbeck, University of London
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Princeton, New Jersey
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Prishtina, Kosova
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Prishtina, Kosova
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Reserach Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana
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Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Heidelberg
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University of Vermont
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Toronto City Hall Council Chamber, Toronto
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Deutsches Haus, University of New York
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Volksbühne Berlin
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Powell’s City of Book, Portland, Oregon
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Harvard Book Store, New York
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Lacanian Ink 21
Deitch Projects, New York
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At Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
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The second day of the opening of the Krytyka Polityczna in Łódź
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Artyčok, Prague
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Tilton Gallery, New York City
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Lecture during the conference “The Actuality of the Absolute: Hegel, Out Untimely Contemporary” (10-12.05.2013)
Birkbeck, University of London
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“Let us be realists and demand the impossible: Communism.”
Opera Theatre, Sydney, Australia
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American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
Montréal, Québec
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A conversation with Slavoj Žižek and Jake Matatyaou discussing state sovereignty, borders, migration, and global capital at SCI-Arc
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Lecture and Panel Discussion: “Whither Left?”
Town Hall, Kochi, Kochi Life 2010
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India Habitat Centre
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at the First Annual Navayana Lecture
Sarai-CSDC, Delhi
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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 Hotel
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“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, in both directions: there were emancipatory dreams mobilizing protesters in New York, on Tahir Square, in London and Athens–and there were the obscure destructive dreams propelling Breivik and other racist populists all around Europe.
What is the meaning of these explosions? Do they have a common root?”
–Slavoj Žižek, Spring 2012
New York Public Library
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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 to the utopia of global market capitalism. Has this crisis now offered a vital opening for the left to seize the reins of politics and the state?
LSE, the London School of Economics and Political Science
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New York University
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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
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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 to be expected in Fall 2017
Lecture at UCLA, Los Angeles
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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 will be shown, bear crucially on the relevance of Marx’s critique of political economy to our contemporary political moment.
Pomona College, Los Angeles
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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 in the tradition of the German philosophers Immanuel Kant, G.W. Hegel and F.W.J. Schelling and the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.
Slavoj Žižek and Graham Harman at SCI-Arc, Los Angeles
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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 all Zizek’s gags is that the financial meltdown marks a seriously dangerous moment — dangerous not least because, as in the interpretation of 9.11, the right wing is ready to impose a narrative. And the left wing is caught without a narrative or a theory. “Today is the time for theory,” he says. “Time to withdraw and think.”
A Radio Open Source Interview with Chris Lydon
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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 down with Žižek to discuss the immigration crisis, the response of the liberal left, and the future for Europe.
This Guardian Live Event ook place on 19 April at the Emmanuel Centre, London
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At Birkbeck, University of London
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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.
Birkbeck, University of London
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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 issues dividing the work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan, two of the most formidable figures of postwar French thought.
Debate with Aaron Schuster and Maria Aristodemou
Birkbeck, University of London
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Public Lecture a the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
Birkbeck, University of London
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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 to Spinoza, from Kant to Hegel, from Marx to Kierkegaard, from Heidegger to Kripke. It is through the reference to philosophers that Lacan deploys his fundamental concepts: transference through Plato, the Freudian subject through Descartes’s cogito, surplus-enjoyment through Marx’s surplus-value, anxiety and repetition through Kierkegaard, the ethics of psychoanalysis through Kant, etc.
Birkbeck, University of London
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Part 2 of the Masterclass: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
with a contribution from Frank Ruda
Birkbeck, University of London
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Lecture at the Munich School of Philosophy
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Event: Coming to Terms with Film-Philosophy
Toronto, Canada
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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 Oedipus he would disavow.
Lecture at the Arcitecutural Association, London
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“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.
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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 place. Evil is home.From an AA conference on Home, exploring the idea of ‘home’ as a domestic space and as the articulation of fundamental fantasies of space, memory and identity. The conference examined how the category Home operates as a point of political reference and mobilization, and considered the dangers of overinvestment in this category, both at the level of the city and in terms of fuelling political conflict.
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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 Against the Double Blackmail.
Original Post: http://zero-books.net/blogs/zero/zero-squared-95-zizek-and-the-double-blackmail/
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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
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“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
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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 topics of discussion!
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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
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As guest in the Think Again Podcast hosted byJason Gots, Zizek argues against liberal notions of tolerance
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The relationship of rage, rebellion and new power forms a kind of dialectic trias of revolutionary process.
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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 a “no” to philosophy that is internal to it, i.e., psychoanalytic theory refers to a gap/antagonism which philosophy blurs but which simultaneously grounds philosophy (Heidegger called this gap ontological difference). Without this link to philosophy – more precisely, to the blind spot of philosophy, to what is “primordially repressed” in philosophy – psychoanalysis loses its subversive dimension and becomes just another ontic practice.
Birkbeck, University of London
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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.
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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
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Žižek discusses the pitfalls of modern-day power with reference to the opera. Southbank Centre
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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.
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Festival KEINE DISZIPLIN 2016, Gessnerallee Zürich
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14.06.2016 at University Zürich
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Slavoj Žižek @ Left Forum 2016
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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 face two versions of ideological blackmail – open-door solidarity with refugees and drawbridge-minded protectionism. Both prolong the problem – so, confronted with this double blackmail, we find ourselves back at the great question: what is to be done? The refugee crisis offers to Europe an opportunity: a unique chance to redefine itself. The only way, argues Žižek, to truly get to the heart of one of the greatest and most urgent issues confronting Europe today is to insist on the global solidarity of the exploited and oppressed. Maybe such global solidarity is a utopia. But, he warns, if we don’t engage in it, then we are really lost. And we will deserve to be lost
The Forum for European Philosophy
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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 one, that of surplus-knowledge, a pseudo-knowledge in the guise of which our ignorance appears (“supreme” knowledge of God and other hidden forces, conspiracy theories, etc.). Such an analysis is crucial for resuscitating Marx’s critique of political economy, as well as for properly understanding today’s global capitalism and its ideological effects, up to fundamentalist violence
Birkbeck, University of London
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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 one, that of surplus-knowledge, a pseudo-knowledge in the guise of which our ignorance appears (“supreme” knowledge of God and other hidden forces, conspiracy theories, etc.). Such an analysis is crucial for resuscitating Marx’s critique of political economy, as well as for properly understanding today’s global capitalism and its ideological effects, up to fundamentalist violence
Birkbeck, University of London
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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 of Hegel. This series of lectures will provide a cognitive mapping of this twisted terrain, with the aim to redeem Hegel for the radical thought
Birkbeck, University of London
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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 of lectures will provide a cognitive mapping of this twisted terrain, with the aim to redeem Hegel for the radical thought
Birkbeck, University of London
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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 rejections of Hegel. This series of lectures will provide a cognitive mapping of this twisted terrain, with the aim to redeem Hegel for the radical thought
Birkback, University of London
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Sept 25, 2015 Istanbul. Conference organized by MonoKL and the Municipality of Kartal district
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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
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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
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Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg
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Recorded on 11 November 2014 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
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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 crisis, many would agree that Europe faces its greatest ever predicament.
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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 by Avital Ronell, Professor of German and Comparative Literature at NYU
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Audio recording of Slavoj Žižek’s talks in Istanbul Modern Museum on 25th July 2015, organized by Encore Publishing
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Slavoj Žižek’s third lecture at the London Critical Theory Summer School. Birkbeck
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Slavoj Žižek’s second lecture at the London Critical Theory Summer School. Birkbeck
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First lecture from The London Critical Theory Summer School at Birkbeck with comments on Greece. Held on 6th July 2015
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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
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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
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Zizek on Syriza at NYU
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Princeton University
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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 line that divides truth from mere opinion, up to Lenin obsessed with the line that separates materialism from idealism. The courses are an exercise in this art of delimination: their aim is to specify the contours of the dialectical-materialist notion of negativity by drawing a line that separates it from other forms of thought of negativity
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Princeton University
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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
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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, Binyavanga Wainaina, Gayatri Spivak and Tara Smith
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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, but it is at the same time spirit itself which heals its own wound. This Hegelian insight will be developed in its philosophical, theological, and political implications: why is the Fall a happy occurrence? How does permissiveness turn into oppression? Why does only the most brutal capitalist alienation open up the possibility for freedom?
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Conference by Slavoj Žižek at the Faculty of Fine Arts University of Porto FBAUP on “THE FREEDOM OF A FORCED CHOICE”
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Towards a Materialist Notion of Freedom: Neurosciences and Freedom
Birkbeck, University of London
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Towards a Materialist Notion of Freedom: Freedom – For Whom? To do What?
Birkbeck, University of London
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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
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