Slavoj Žižek asks “Is capitalist realism the only answer to socialist utopianism? Was what followed the fall of the Wall really the era of capitalist maturity, the leaving behind of all utopias? What if that era relied on a utopia of its own?” in his article Post-Wall for the London Review of Books, Vol. 31 No. 22 [...]
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‘Post-Wall’ by Slavoj Žižek in the London Review of Books
Posted in Slavoj Zizek on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Third Text celebrates 100 issues with contributions from Slavoj Žižek and Alberto Toscano – and more Radical Thinkers and the Arts
Posted in Antonio Negri, Eyal Weizman, Futurism, Kate Soper, Radical Thinkers, Simon Critchley, Slavoj Zizek, Susan Buck-Morss, Terry Eagleton on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Third Text, Volume 23, Issue 5, September 2009 announced a call for papers for its centenary issue and is itself a special issue entitled ‘Art: A Vision of the Future”.
Slavoj Žižek’s piece, Notes on a Poetic-Military Complex, argues “the predominance of religiously (or ethnically) justified violence can be accounted for by the very fact that we live in [...]
Slavoj Žižek contributes ‘20 Years of Collapse’ to the New York Times – and watch his Cooper Union talk
Posted in Communism, Slavoj Zizek on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Slavoj Žižek contributes to the New York Times on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall:
TODAY is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. During this time of reflection, it is common to emphasize the miraculous nature of the events that began that day: a dream seemed to come true, [...]
Tariq Ali on Deutscher’s Trotsky biography in the Guardian
Posted in Isaac Deutscher, Slavoj Zizek, Tariq Ali, Trotsky on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While reviewing Robert Service’s biography of Trotsky, Tariq Ali indicates which account of Trotsky’s life still stands the test of time:
For over half a century, Isaac Deutscher’s three-volume biography of Trotsky, a literary-historical masterpiece in its own right, was regarded as the last word on the subject. Many who were deeply hostile to the Russian [...]
Slavoj Žižek: LONDON DATES
Posted in Slavoj Zizek on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Slavoj Žižek will be talking about his new book First as Tragedy, Then as Farce in London:
Slavoj Žižek on the Myth of Natural Balance
Date / Time: Monday, 23 November 2009 / 6.45pm
Location: ICA / Tickets sold out
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Slavoj Žižek: Apocalyptic Times
Date / [...]
Žižek’s interview with Jonathan Derbyshire – Uncut
Posted in Slavoj Zizek on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Read Žižek’s full and uncut interview with Jonathan Derbyshire for the New Statesman here. A taster:
… one should distinguish between short-term battles worth fighting and short-term battles where your protest is of the kind that those in power like. There was a little bit of that in the marches against the Iraq war. Everyone was satisfied. [...]
Žižek: “I am a Leninist. Lenin wasn’t afraid to dirty his hands. If you can get power, grab it”
Posted in Politics, Slavoj Zizek on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Slavoj Žižek tells the New Statesman’s Jonathan Derbyshire why he rejects mainstream political theory, why he supports Barack Obama, and why we need Marx more than ever:
… the Slovene’s avowedly “Leninist” provocations, and his hand-waving in the direction of the Jacobin Terror and Mao’s Cultural Revolution, are intended to unsettle and to question the sort [...]
Haiti and the Politics of the Universal: Conference at The Centre for Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen
Posted in Alain Badiou, Antonio Negri, Haiti, Slavoj Zizek on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Haiti and the Politics of the Universal: Conference at The Centre for Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen
Friday and Saturday, March 12-13, 2010
After two centuries of neglect and disavowal, the Haitian Revolution has suddenly become a fundamental reference point for global emancipatory politics, a touchstone for critical philosophers such as Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, Susan [...]
Zizek’s First as Tragedy, Then as Farce is Nick Lezard’s choice for The Guardian: “Revel in the way he can zero in on the absurdities and contradictions of the modern world
Posted in Communism, Slavoj Zizek on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nick Lezard made Zizek’s First as Tragedy, Then as Farce his paperback of the week in Saturday’s Guardian:
I remember when, in this paper’s excellent Weekend magazine’s Q & A, Slavoj Žižek was asked to “tell us a secret”, he replied: “Communism will win.” I don’t think anyone familiar with Žižek’s writings will think he was [...]
Slavoj Žižek on Democracy Now! after bomb scare closes down Cooper Union book launch
Posted in Slavoj Zizek, tagged Slavoj Zizek on October 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
After Slavoj Žižek’s sell-out talk at New York’s 800-capacity Cooper Union was cut short by a bomb scare, the ‘most dangerous philosopher in the west’ continued his talk outside the building for a time, signing copies of First as Tragedy, Then as Farce.
Žižek talks to Democracy Now!:
… That’s ideology today. We don’t believe in democracy—nobody. You make fun of it [...]
