Slavoj Žižek
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Explore a comprehensive collection of Slavoj Žižek audio recordings and lectures. Search through hours of provocative philosophy and sharp cultural critique.
c/slavoj-zizek
Explore a comprehensive collection of Slavoj Žižek audio recordings and lectures. Search through hours of provocative philosophy and sharp cultural critique.
Internationally renowned philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek returns to Seton Hall for a public talk entitled “Why Do We Enjoy Feeling Ashamed?”
Žižek’s paper was delivered the largest Slovenian annual foreign policy event, the Bled Strategic Forum (BSF), on 29th August 2022, in a special “Night owl session”, followed by a dialogue with Guillaume Klossa on the future of Europe.
Are we above nature? How can we combat extremism? How do extreme ideologies often become their opposite?
Isn’t Ukraine too much hurt because of its desire for freedom? We will be able to discuss this live with a lecturer who is in the TOP-25 of the world’s best intellectuals according to Prospect Magazine (UK) and Foreign Policy (USA). He was nicknamed “Elvis of Theory of Culture” and “the most dangerous philosopher in the world.”
Slavoj Zizek and Vivek Chibber debate the role of ideology in promoting capitalist stability. Does capitalist ideology prevent workers from rising up? Or does the class structure within capitalism make non-collective forms of resistance, or worse, resignation, more likely than collective action?
