Slavoj Žižek (born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher and self-described “radical leftist” and “communist in a qualified sense,” currently a researcher at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts, and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London. — Wikipedia
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Conversations featuring the likes of Noam Chomsky, Brian Eno and Slavoj Žižek imagine a more communal world after Covid
Three texts through which to understand current unrest in South Africa – by Slavoj Žižek, Frantz Fanon and Alan Paton
Brian Cox, Slavoj Žižek, and Elena Ferrante among signatories asking the EU to offer membership ahead of possible Scottish independence vote
The supposedly liberal ‘wokeness’ and cancel culture have little to do with awakening to what’s going on in the world and trying to change it – it’s just noise for the sake of noise, while…
The Slovenian philosopher divides opinion over his often-contradictory viewpoints
Mike Cahill’s sci-fi concoction is earnest and inventive, even if it’s better as a drug-addiction story than a philosophical fable
In his erratic grasping at power, outgoing US President Donald Trump is doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. The undemocratic electoral system needs to be dismantled, but he doesn’t…
‘New communism’ proponent Slavoj Zizek denies he’s an anti-Semite. Popular thinker says State of Israel has made Jews into yet another ‘race enjoying privileges over the natives’
Authoritarians are exploiting this crisis, writes Slavoj Zizek. If China succeeds in Hong Kong, the violent takeover of Taiwan could be the next step – then a full scale Pacific war
Julian Assange has had his rights stripped away in a case that should alarm millions, but too few people care because his character has been assassinated. He might have to go to prison before…
There are two types of people in the world today: medical workers who wage an existential struggle on our behalf and the rest of us trapped in this quasi-reality of social distancing and…