Category Archives: Slavoj Zizek

Žižek’s book on Hegel forthcoming

Posted on November 17, 2011 by stuartelden

Slavoj Žižek’s Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism is not yet on the Verso site, but is appearing in online bookshops (i.e. Amazon). 1,200 pages (!) and April 2012. [update – You can find the table … Continue reading →

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Zizek interview and speech

Posted on November 3, 2011 by stuartelden

  Slavoj Žižek interviewed by Al Jazeera. And a speech at at St. Mark’s bookshop. This is transcribed here. Both links via the Verso blog.

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Slavoj Žižek interview

Posted on October 29, 2011 by stuartelden

Video of an interview with Charlie Rose here.

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Slavoj Žižek at Occupy Wall Street

Posted on October 10, 2011 by stuartelden

The videos are hard work as the crowd repeats every line after he’s said it – did no-one think to provide a microphone or loudhailer? – though as one of the commentators said, it’s a shame they didn’t also do … Continue reading →

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Roundup – Sebald, Books, Speculative Realist Literary Criticism, Occupy Wall Street, Zizek on TV

Posted on October 5, 2011 by stuartelden

Some interesting stuff I’ve recently come across… A retrospective ten years after W.G. Sebald’s death in The Times Higher Education (via Continental Philosophy). Interesting reading, especially on his resistance to the bureaucratisation of higher education. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen offers some interesting … Continue reading →

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German Philosophy and Geography

Posted on September 27, 2011 by stuartelden

This the session I am organising at the New York AAG (24-28 Feb 2012). The impact of philosophers on geography, in recent years, has largely been from the French tradition—Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Badiou and others. There are exceptions, of course, … Continue reading →

Posted in Carl Schmitt, Conferences, Eduardo Mendieta, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, Slavoj Zizek | 3 Comments

Slavoj Žižek on English riots

Posted on August 22, 2011 by stuartelden

In the LRB (via the Verso blog). Well worth a read, and it ranges quite widely to Egypt and the financial crisis, among other things. It does exhibit the general tendency that people looking into the events tend to find what they … Continue reading →

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Two sides of Žižek

Posted on July 16, 2011 by stuartelden

Interview in The Guardian, and criticism of his views on Israel and Gaza in Counter Punch. [Update: there is also a short video of him on The Guardian website]

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Assange, Žižek, Goodman

Posted on July 12, 2011 by stuartelden

Julian Assange and Slavoj Žižek in dialogue with Amy Goodman here – there are plenty of excerpts on You Tube etc., but this is the full video recording.

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Roundup – St. Paul, Heidegger, Peter Gratton, Thinking Nature, Levi Bryant

Posted on June 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Since I arrived in Nigeria on Wednesday evening, internet access has been a bit erratic. Will hopefully post something about being here soon. In the meantime, here’s a roundup of interesting stuff out there. Adam Kotsko makes the suggestion of … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Eduardo Mendieta, Giorgio Agamben, Levi Bryant, Publishing, Slavoj Zizek | Leave a comment