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2 days ago · The philosopher and New Statesman writer John Gray met Žižek at a conference on Spinoza in Amsterdam. “Not a streak of modesty, the self deprecation is a form of camouflage,” he says. “Žižek has a lot in common with GK Chesterton,” Gray tells me. “He is not your standard liberal or even Marxian humanist.
Jul 17, 2024 · THE SHOOTING OF TRUMP. Trump is now elevated to the status of a fetish in the psychoanalytic sense of the term. Slavoj Žižek. Jul 17, 2024. Share. Comrades, Welcome to the desert of the real. I’m holding a flash sale; This week, yearly subscriptions will be priced at just $25.00.
3 days ago · We Are All Biomass. Jul 23, 2024 Slavoj Žižek. It is a fantasy to think that our trash- and commodity-filled environments can be left behind and replaced by life in some idyllic “natural,” ecologically sustainable environment. But perhaps the loss of that option can become the basis for a new, global sense of solidarity.
2 days ago · Christian Atheism – review. In Christian Atheism, Slavoj Žižek probes the boundaries between Christianity, atheism and materialism through analyses of modern thinkers including Hegel, Marx and Lacan. The book simultaneously affirms and deconstructs Christian theology, arguing for its relevance in conceiving of contemporary political commitment.
It was surely Marx’s tendency to inflame strong opinions that got him placed at the center of a debate between the psychologist/cultural commentator Jordan Peterson and the philosopher/cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek. The event took place in 2019, at Toronto’s Sony Center, billed as a clash of the titans on the ...
Jul 2, 2024 · I usually think of Slavoj Žižek as a performance-artist-of-philosophy-sometimes-shading-into-clownishness, but he can be perceptive, especially when diagnosing the internal dynamics of his fellow leftists.
5 days ago · Echoes of despair amid global outrage over Gaza conflict. Everyone knows that the situation in Gaza is unacceptable. But a great deal of energy has been devoted to postponing the kind of ...
