Slavoj Zižek



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Other roles/Main role: International director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities

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Viewpoints/Insight: Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots' - A genius with the answers to the financial crisis? Or the Borat of philosophy? The cultural theorist talks about love, sex and why nothing is ever what it appears to be - Decca Aitkenhead, The Guardian, 10th June 2012

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Controversy/Criticism: The Slavoj Žižek v Noam Chomsky spat is worth a ringside seat - Peter Thompson: It's barely caused a ripple outside leftist discourse, but their debate on theory, ideology and reality touches on important stuff - 20th July 2013

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 * Recent European movements are working to get rid of the left – Corbyn should beware their underhanded tactics - Recall how, in the last elections in France, every leftist scepticism about Macron was immediately denounced as a support for Marine le Pen. And look at the empty universality of successful statements like Macron's 'La Republique En Marche!' – the designation of a victorious movement forward without any obvious or specific goal - 27th June 2017
 * The secret to Corbyn's success was rejecting PC culture as much as he rejected rabble-rousing populism - The fact that such an approach amounts to no less than a major shift in our political space is a sad sign of the times we live in. But it shows where we can go from here - 13th June 2017
 * Don’t believe the liberals – there is no real choice between Le Pen and Macron - Yes, Le Pen is a threat, but if we throw all our support behind Macron, do we not get caught into a kind of circle and fight the effect by way of supporting the very neoliberalism that fuels the far right? - 3rd May 2017
 * Capitalism has broken free of democracy - Economic models have proved more portable than political ideas - 2nd February 2015
 * Rotherham child sex abuse: it is our duty to ask difficult questions - Anyone who wants to fight for emancipation should not be afraid to examine religion and culture - 2nd September 2014
 * How capital captured politics - WikiLeaks has shown us that western democracies are now ruled by market forces that debase the very notion of freedom - 14th July 2014
 * How WikiLeaks opened our eyes to the illusion of freedom - Julian Assange, who went into exile in the Ecuadorean embassy two years ago, has blown apart the myth of western liberty - 19th June
 * Why both the left and right have got it wrong on Ukraine - There's a historical irony in watching Ukrainians tearing down Lenin’s statues as a sign of their will to break with Soviet domination - 10th June
 * Fat-free chocolate and absolutely no smoking: why our guilt about consumption is all-consuming - From fear of being seen smoking to Starbucks' 'coffee karma', we've arrived at a cultural impasse as consumers - 22nd May 2014
 * Who can control the post-superpower capitalist world order? - The events in Ukraine seem like the next stage of a struggle for control in a non-regulated, multi-centred world - 7th May 2014
 * Žižek: What Europe should learn from Ukraine - Blog Da Boitempo, 31st March 2014
 * Anger in Bosnia, but this time the people can read their leaders' ethnic lies - Protesters were carrying three flags side by side – Bosnian, Serb and Croat, brought together by a radical demand for justice - 10th February 2014
 * The 'fake' Mandela memorial interpreter said it all - He claimed an 'attack of schizophrenia' rendered his signing unintelligible, but his performance translated an underlying truth - 16th December 2013
 * If Nelson Mandela really had won, he wouldn't be seen as a universal hero - Mandela must have died a bitter man. To honour his legacy we should focus on the unfulfilled promises his leadership gave rise to - 9th December 2013
 * Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot's prison letters to Slavoj Žižek - Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is currently in a prison hospital in Siberia; here she and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek meet in an extraordinary exchange of letters - 15th November 2013
 * Who is responsible for the US shutdown? The same idiots responsible for the 2008 meltdown - In supporting the US shutdown and opposing Obamacare, the radical-populist right counters the interests of those it claims to represent - 11th October 2013
 * Syria is a pseudo-struggle - The ongoing struggle we see is a false one, lacking the kind of radical-emancipatory opposition clearly perceptible in Egypt - 7th September 2013
 * Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange: our new heroes - As the NSA revelations have shown, whistleblowing is now an essential art. It is our means of keeping 'public reason' alive - 3rd September 2013
 * Ágota Kristóf's The Notebook awoke in me a cold and cruel passion - The young twins are thoroughly immoral – they lie, blackmail, kill – yet they stand for authentic ethical naivety at its purest - 13th August 2013
 * The simple courage of decision: a leftist tribute to Thatcher - What we need today is a Thatcher of the left: a leader who would repeat Thatcher’s gesture in the opposite direction, transforming the entire field of presuppositions shared by today’s political elite - 17th April 2013
 * The Cyprus crisis is a symptom of what is rotten in the EU - Cyprus can't repay its debt and the EU can't go on throwing money at it. The entire banking system needs a radical overhaul - 8th April 2013
 * Why the free market fundamentalists think 2013 will be the best year ever - As communists once did, today's capitalists blame any failures on their system being 'impurely' applied - 18th February 2013
 * Zero Dark Thirty: Hollywood's gift to American power - Many have pointed out that Kathryn Bigelow's film endorses torture. But why has such a film been made now? - 26th January 2013
 * The west's crisis is one of democracy as much as finance - The spirit of dictators like Ceausescu is finding new life in the response of the European elite to pressures in the eurozone - 17th January 2013
 * Why Obama is more than Bush with a human face - Ground-floor thinking can give Obama lift-off. His reforms have already touched a nerve at the core of the US ideological edifice - 14th November 2012
 * The politics of Batman - From the repression of unruly citizens to the celebration of the “good capitalist”, The Dark Knight Rises reflects our age of anxiety - 23rd August 2012
 * Occupy Wall Street: what is to be done next? - How a protest movement without a programme can confront a capitalist system that defies reform - 24th April 2012
 * Occupy first. Demands come later - Critics say the Occupy cause is nebulous. Protesters will need to address what comes next – but beware a debate on enemy turf - 27th October 2011
 * needs the world's support'' - Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Slavoj Žižek and others call on the US, France and Canada to keep out of Haiti's democratic process in an open letter to the Guardian - 9th August 2011
 * vile logic to Anders Breivik's choice of target'' - Like Pim Fortuyn before him, Breivik embodies the intersection between rightist populism and liberal political correctness - 9th August 2011
 * Israel’s best hope lies in a single state - In East Jerusalem, vigilantes prowl, hunting for Jewish girls who consort with Arab men - 4th March 2011
 * Egypt, this is the miracle of Tahrir Square'' - There is no room for compromise. Either the entire Mubarak edifice falls, or the uprising is betrayed - 11th February 2011
 * fear the Arab revolutionary spirit?'' - The western liberal reaction to the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia frequently shows hypocrisy and cynicism - 1st February 2011
 * must move beyond mere tolerance'' - My Europe: The EU must unite its people in a common struggle, breaking the deadlock between anaemic liberals and impassioned extremists - 25th January 2011
 * Joe Public v the volcano - We are living in an age when we are both able to change nature and more at its mercy than ever - 29th April 2010
 * Soul of the party - St Paul had it right – using religion to rock the foundations of authority - 1st April 2010



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 * Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot's prison letters to Slavoj Žižek. The Guardian, 15th November 2013
 * The Inventory: Slavoj Zizek. ‘I find myself intolerable. I cannot look at myself on screen,’ says the philosopher and star of ‘The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology.’ FT Magazine, 12th October 2013
 * Appeared on Julian Assange's RT programme The World Tomorrow, 23rd April 2012



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