Category Archives: Slavoj Zizek

Shakespeare and the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Symposium – 14 June 2025, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK

Shakespeare and the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Symposium The Shakespeare in Philosophy series now has a website (https://shakespeareinphilosophy.org), and is on Bluesky (@shakespeareinphilo.bsky.social) and Facebook This year’s event takes place on 14 June 2025, back in Garrick’s … Continue reading

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Shakespeare and the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Symposium – 14 June 2025, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK

Shakespeare and the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Symposium The Shakespeare in Philosophy series now has a website (https://shakespeareinphilosophy.org), and is on Bluesky (@shakespeareinphilo.bsky.social) and Facebook This year’s event takes place on 14 June 2025, back in Garrick’s … Continue reading

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Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa (eds.), Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century – MIT Press, March 2024

Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa (eds.), Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century – MIT Press, March 2024 A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century. Contemporanea is a nascent lexicon for … Continue reading

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Terrains and Territories – Stuart Elden and Nico Buitendag discussion at Undisciplined

Terrains and Territories – Stuart Elden and Nico Buitendag discussion at Undisciplined Many thanks to Nico for this invitation, and for a wide-ranging discussion that touches on nearly everything I’ve worked on. This is part of a series of discussions … Continue reading

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Jenny Edkins, Change and the Politics of Certainty – Manchester University Press, May 2019

Jenny Edkins, Change and the Politics of Certainty – Manchester University Press, 2019 Renowned politics scholar Jenny Edkins explores the imperative for change in a world filled with inequality, violence, persecution, and injustice–and the difficulties of bringing it about. How … Continue reading

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Slavoj Žižek – Hegelian Battles – 3 Lectures

Slavoj Žižek – Hegelian Battles – audio recordings of Birkbeck lectures from December 2015. The battle for Hegel goes on – new interpretations are emerging which perhaps pose an even greater threat to Hegel’s legacy than the usual rejections of Hegel. … Continue reading

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Slavoj Žižek mini course at Birkbeck – Hegelian Battles

Slavoj Žižek mini course at Birkbeck – Hegelian Battles. December 2-4, 2015. Free for students and Birkbeck staff, £10 per lecture for others. Everyone needs to register in advance. The battle for Hegel goes on – new interpretations are emerging … Continue reading

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London Critical Theory Summer School 2015 Friday Debate II audio recording – Costas Douzinas, Stephen Frosh, Jacqueline Rose, Esther Leslie and Slavoj Zizek

London Critical Theory Summer School 2015 Friday Debate II – Introduction and summing up the 2nd week by by Costas Douzinas, Stephen Frosh, Jacqueline Rose, Esther Leslie and Slavoj Zizek. Audio recording available here.

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Greece and Europe: A First Account of a Radical Government – recordings of Douzinas, Mason and Žižek

Greece and Europe: A First Account of a Radical Government – recordings of Costas Douzinas, Paul Mason and Slavoj Žižek. Also includes a link to this short film:

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Terry Eagleton reviews Trouble in Paradise and Absolute Recoil by Slavoj Žižek

Terry Eagleton reviews Trouble in Paradise and Absolute Recoil by Slavoj Žižek in The Guardian. Here’s the great final paragraph (spoiler alert): Trouble in Paradise, with its unerring ear for political cant, is a book that everyone, not least the Masters of the Universe, … Continue reading

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