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
Wikimedia Slavoj Žižek says the GameStop short squeeze was revolutionary because it didn’t focus on fundamentals. Žižek is a political ph…
Conversations featuring the likes of Noam Chomsky, Brian Eno and Slavoj Žižek imagine a more communal world after Covid
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…
The pandemic has affected our economy in contradictory ways. We are seeing the introduction of social policies tantamount to communism at the same time as workers are being exploited more…
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…
With everything that’s plunging the world into chaos right now, one thing surprising me is, why are Greta Thunberg and Bernie Sanders comparatively quiet? Make no mistake, racism, climate…
The former leader is just the latest left-wing figure to be brought down by vexatious allegations of Jew-hating so opponents don’t have to engage with his real argument, that capitalism has and is failing.