Zizek

In Defense of Lost Causes: Amazon.co.uk: Slavoj Zizek: 9781844671083: Books

Modern radical thinker Slavoj Žižek spoke on the 1st July 2011 as part of the ‘Great Minds’ series, and affirmed his status as a great mind of modern philosophy and social, cultural and political theory. Starbucks, social solidarity and self-comm ...

Slavoi Zizek talks about modern capitalism: are buying a cup of coffee, or are we buying redemption for being consumers?

An intriguing (though depressing and plausible!) talk by Slavoj Žižek about the prospects faced by Western democracy. He paints a grim picture of a society where "all small personal pleasures will be kept" but democracy is gone. As he puts it: "things cannot go on indefinitely the way that they are". Do we face an all or not ...

Read Zizek's commentary on the current events in the Arab world in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/01/egypt-tunisia-revolt

Slavoj Žižek famously said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Others claim we are now in a post-political era, in the sense that the neoliberal world view and agenda are so embedded in our background assumptions and common sense that what passes for political discussion and argument takes place within ...

An RSA animate video presenting a recent lecture by iconclastic Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. It's an accessible introduction to the area he's worked in recently (particularly in first as tragedy, then as farce) for those unfamiliar with Žižek and an entertaining distillation for those who know his writings well. The only downside to the ...

What does it mean to be a revolutionary today? Slavoj Žižek at Marxism 2009 | The Sociological Imagination

Slavoj Žižek · Shoplifters of the World Unite · LRB 19 August 2011

Slavoj Žižek · The Revolt of the Salaried Bourgeoisie: The New Proletariat · LRB 26 January 2012