Category Archives: Slavoj Zizek

Heidegger – Nature, History, State: 1933-1934

Posted on March 7, 2013 by

Intriguing news of a new volume of Heidegger’s seminars – Nature, History, State: 1933-1934 (I’ve linked to the Google Books page, as the publisher one is missing.) Amazon have this listed for October 2013. Nature, History, State: 1933-1934 presents the first complete … Continue reading →

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Hegel, Our Untimely Contemporary – conference with Slavoj Žižek

Posted on February 23, 2013 by

May 10-12, 2013, The Birkbeck Institute, London – full details here (via Verso blog) Hegel is the ultimate bête noire of the last two centuries of philosophy:proponents of Lebensphilosophie, existentialists from Kierkegaard onwards, materialists, historicists, analytic philosophers and empiricists, Marxists, … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on January 28, 2013 by

A couple of old translations of Hegel, Žižek’s fairly early book on Hegel, Judith Butler’s Parting Ways, Engin Isin’s Citizens without Frontiers, and Matthieu Rigoste, L’ennemi intérieur, borrowed from Gerald Moore.  

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Robert Pippin on Žižek’s Less Than Nothing

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

A detailed and thoughtful review at Mediations – thanks to Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz for the link.

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Slavoj Žižek interview in Salon

Posted on January 11, 2013 by

Rather late linking to this.

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London Critical Theory Summer School – Birkbeck, 1-12 July 2013

Posted on December 17, 2012 by

The 2013 London Critical Theory Summer School will take place at Birkbeck from 1st July – 12th July 2013. This unique opportunity is for graduate students and academics to follow a course of study and to foster exchange and debate. … Continue reading →

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Mapping… – reissue of the series from Verso

Posted on December 4, 2012 by

Verso have reissued their Mapping series.  Mapping Ideology; edited by Slavoj Žižek; Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial, edited by Vinayak Chaturvedi and Mapping the Nation edited by Gopal Balakrishnan.

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Slavoj Žižek on Obama’s re-election

Posted on November 14, 2012 by

Short piece in The Guardian. Preposterous and thoughtful all at the same time. Here’s one typical paragraph: In Europe, the ground floor of a building is counted as zero, so the floor above it is the first floor, while in the … Continue reading →

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New books received

Posted on October 15, 2012 by

Some recently received books – mainly from University of Georgia Press in recompense for review work; an old and a new book bought from Verso; Kant’s Natural Science for review; and a copy of the Babel2  Diritto alla città collection … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek discusses ‘The Year of Dreaming Dangerously’

Posted on October 14, 2012 by

Radio discussion with Slavoj Žižek on CBC.

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