Topic: Slavoj Zizek
The son of middle-class Slovenian Communists, Slavoj Zizek (born 21st March, 1949 in Ljubljana, Slovenia) is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, cultural critic and Lacanian Marxist sociologist. Post modernity for Zizek, is based upon the termination of the power of the 'Big Other'. For ...
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalysis advocate, public intellectual, cultural critic, at least somewhat Marxist, sometime politician (once ran for president of Slovenia). - is a performance, maybe or maybe not justified in getting attention and getting people to listen to ...
The French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), a self-acknowledged atheist by the way, wrote "The best way to conceive of the fundamental project of human reality is to say that man is the being whose project is to be God" (Sartre, Jean-Paul ...
Who do you believe will not get into Heaven and why? For example, at that Google talk, Zizek talked about the state of Israel. He expressed amazement about the fact that this state, founded by divine mission, has atheist rates (according to ...
Why do we do nothing in the face of all the scientific evidence of the reality of global warming?The most convincing answer I've heard to this question is offered by the Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Zizek. And speaking of oil, Slavoj ...
If I've somehow caused you to stop on this hub on your hub hopping, like a fly drawn to honey, well and good. In America this is no more than half of one percent of our population of three hundred-plus million ...
The article reviews the book " Unfortunately for Zizek, who does not disguise his contempt for liberal values, the best way out of this dilemma is to uphold the importance of an independent judi- ciary, a free press and a redistributive system of ...
Wes Anderson's films are narratives about fatherhood structured by fatherhood, both in terms of technique and thematics. Reading Anderson's films through a Lacanian lens reveals the impact of castration on Anderson's work and how his films put viewers through ...
Now that rock anthems and gospel choirs have sung us into the Obama era, it's tempting to think we're waking to a glorious new day and slamming the door on our eight-year national nightmare. But philosopher-psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek wants to ...
My very favorite magazine, The Believer, has an annual issue on one of my very favorite topics: That includes everything from "The Wizard of Oz" to "Toy Story," "The African Queen," "Midnight Run," "North by Northwest," "From the Mixed Up Files of ...
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RSA Animate - First as Tragedy, Then ...
In this short RSA Animate, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek investigates ...2010-07-28 -
Slavoj Žižek - What does it mean ...
Debate with Alex Callinicos at Marxism 2009 www.counterfire.org2009-07-06 -
Zizek on Children of Men
Slavoj Zizek is a big fan of Quaron's movie ...2007-09-10
