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[[Image:Zizek_Large.jpg|300px|frame|right|Slavoj Žižek]] '''[[Slavoj Žižek]]''' (pronounced: slaˈvɔj ʒiˈʒɛk) ([[born]] 21 March 1949) is

...dy group organized by [[Louis Althusser]] and grew increasingly influenced by [[Jacques Lacan]]. ...of more main-line [[Marxism]]. In 1988 he published what is now considered by many to be his major [[statement]], ''L'être et l'événement''. He took u

...56. His father [[Jacob]] was 41, a wool merchant, and had two [[children]] by a previous marriage. His [[mother]] Amalia was 21. Owing to his intellect, ...upposed that all [[living]] organisms are [[energy]]-systems also governed by this [[principle]]. During this year, at the [[University of Vienna]], Bru

...s dissolution of the École Française de Psychanalyse in 1980 is followed by the creation of La [[cause freudienne]]. Soon he dies leaving Miller as the ...f [[Terrorism]]" where he asserted that "an [[analyst]] is only authorized by her/himself (Lacan's dictum: l'[[analyste]] ne s'autorise que de lui-même)

...ity we cna be proud of and be happy within, but this [[goal]] is denied us by lazy scrounging foreginers. We can therefor not enjoy our community becaus ...ocess is taking plce whereby the dehumanizing of the o ther is accompanied by an inflation of the other's power and strenght.

Slavoj Zizek, Interviewed by Sabine Reul and Thomas Deichmann. ...:script="urn:my-script-blocks"></br><b xmlns:script="urn:my-script-blocks">Slavoj Žižek:</b> Of course, I am not against the new. I am, indeed, almost temp

...[[philosophers]], who simply accepted modernity.<ref>{{Z}} "[[Articles by Slavoj Žižek|The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other]]."</ref> [[Category:Slavoj Žižek|Pascal, Blaise]]

...rification is so destructive resides in the very fact that it is sustained by the [[belief]] that, after the destructive work of purification will be acc ...of the famous [[scene]] from [[Hitchcock]]'s Birds, superbly [[analyzed]] by [[Raymond Bellour]], in which Melanie approaches the Bodega Bay pier after

Welcome to the Desert of the [[Real]] [2] Slavoj [[Zizek]]. Re:constructions, 09/15/2001. WELCOME TO THE DESERT OF THE REAL! [[Slavoj Zizek]]

When you are bombarded by claims that in our post-[[ideological]] cynical era nobody believes any mor ...tary imbalance in the [[relationship]] between the Ego and [[jouissance]], by the tension between [[pleasure]] and the foreign [[body]] of jouissance in

...in]] of doxa, of pragmatic considerations and compromises which always and by definition fall short of the unconditional [[ethical]] [[demand]]. The [[no ...the results of my personality, not as the result of me being thrown around by the [[market]] forces.

Slavoj [[Zizek]]: ...iduals in our post-modern [[political]] process. We are all the time asked by politicians to press such buttons. But some things are excluded. What is ex

...the more sophisticated versions of the critics of ideology -that developed by the Frankfurt [[School]], for example — it is not just a question of [[se ...choanalysis, it is closer to Alphonse Allais's well-known [[joke]], quoted by Lacan: somebody points at a [[woman]] and utters a horrified cry, "Look at

...short-circuit between the [[formal]]/differential [[structure]] (which is by definition "[[absent]]," i.e. it is never given "as such" in our experienti ...rmost "relations between people" can be [[displaced]] onto (or substituted by) "relations between things"? That is to say, is it not a basic feature of t

...lso a capricious [[Master]] who wants it all, i.e., who, herself not bound by any Law, charges her knight-servant with [[arbitrary]] and outrageous ordea ...r, we are dealing with an agency of power which is pre-symbolic, unbridled by the Law of castration; in both cases, the role of this fantasmatic agency i

Slavoj [[Zizek]], Interviewed by Josefina Ayerza. JOSEFINA AYERZA: The contemporary [[political]] [[discourse]], changed by events such as the altering of [[communist]] regular patterns, should be gi

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...g Man is Hitchcock at its purest. His special attachment to it is attested by the exceptional [[character]] of his cameo-[[appearance]] in the prologue; ...to take into account the strict [[concept]] of "[[sadism]]" as elaborated by [[Lacan]]. In "[[Kant]] with [[Sade]]," Lacan proposed two schemes which tr

...ment from [[human]] [[desire]]. Kant's [[practical]] [[reason]], sustained by [[moral]] law, brings out desire at its utmost: we [[know]] nevertheless ho ...] fantasy, you get it, but without claws, without teeth, it is all cut off by a veterinarian. For me this is the ultimate of this same [[logic]]. [[Nothi

THE [[world]] today is more and more marked by the frontier separating its insiders from its outsiders, between the "devel ...in the bloody disintegration tries to legitimise their place "[[inside]]" by presenting themselves as the last bastion of European civilisation (the cur

...universe]] of [[hallucinations]], unconstrained by any [[symbolic]] Law or by any [[impossibility]] of some [[Real]]? If not, how are we to detect in cyb ...the interactive immersive [[environment]] in which we actively participate by [[role]]-playing) no longer writes detailed story-line, s/he merely provide

...ness resides in the regulation of its jouissance, i.e. the "real Other" is by definition "patriarchal", "violent", never the Other of ethereal wisdom and [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]

...the [[social]] influence of her parents…"). Its crucial feature is that, by providing this answer, the [[subject]] pretends to assume the standpoint of ...held accountable for racist outbursts is an [[illusion]] already denounced by [[Nietzsche]] who proved that the deed or rather the doing is original, and

...] explanatory presupposition, like the second [[stage]] (I am being beaten by my [[father]]) of the [[child]]'s fantasy "A child is being beaten" which, ...ible]] for the malfunction. While this is true, this "truth" is propagated by me to conceal the fact that the accident realized my desire. On the contrar

...in the 1930s? Why did they let themselves be lured into dull satisfaction by the Sirens of the late-[[capitalist]] "[[society]] of consumption" in the 1 ...element which, though clearly belonging to the situation, is not "counted" by it, properly included in it (e.g., the "nonintegrated" rabble in a societal

...ne of over-conformist authors who undermine the ruling ideological edifice by their very excessive [[identification]] with it. ...mself, his [[self]]-confidence and assurance depend on how he is perceived by [[others]], while the prime mover is fully reconciled with himself, relying

...? Was there ever a [[political]] manifesto that was more clearly falsified by subsequent historical [[reality]]? Isn't [[The Communist Manifesto]], at be ...n every quarter of the globe. In [[place]] of the old wants, [[satisfied]] by the productions of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their [[sa

...he Bolshevik rule was unstable, out of [[control]], permanently threatened by the centrifugal forces — far more than the gratuitous [[sadistic]] displa ...ap: instead of the usual public-[[symbolic]] [[power structure]] sustained by the obscene invisible network of apparatuses, we have the public power stru

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...lative" to the [[life]]-[[experience]] the old forms endeavoured to render by means of their "excessive" experimentations. A [[whole]] series of [[narrat ...es of multiple parallel destinies that interact and are crucially affected by meaningless [[contingent]] encounters, the points at which one series inter

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...of [[money]] begetting more money, of a [[system]] which can survive only by constantly revolutionizing its own [[conditions]]-that is to say, in which ...we are dealing with a nothing which acquires some deceptive substance only by magically spinning itself into an excess of itself. Does today's virtual ca

...the results of my personality, not as the result of me being thrown around by [[market]] forces. ...] freedom to choose. In most cases, he will do it, and then rationalize it by way of saying to himself something like: “What I am asked to do IS disgus

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...nto an advantage: "What if the [[complete]] hopelessness of the situation, by stimulating the efforts of the [[workers]] and peasants tenfold, offered us ...the same as today's illusion that the ecological [[threat]] can be avoided by applying [[market]] [[logic]] (making polluters pay for the damage they [[c

...never just the verification of a factual [[difference]]: the [[enemy]] is by definition always — up to a point, at least — invisible, it looks like [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]

...] (in the 31 pages paper entitled "The National Security Strategy," issued by the White House on September 20 2002)? Its main points are: the American mi ...reby [[stating]] an opinion shared not only by many other states, but also by a considerable percentage of American people and congressmen. Schroeder was

...f the [[nightmare]] called Saddam. To this majority, the caution expressed by Western [[liberals]] cannot but appear deeply hypocritical — do they real ...or even Luxembourg. The [[refusal]] of "Americanization" in France, shared by many Leftists and Rightist nationalists, is thus ultimately the refusal to

I [[want]] to address the problem of [[identification]] by confronting the predominant deconstructionist doxa according to which the m ...nconscious "passionate attachments," attachments publicly non-acknowledged by the subject:

...nd what to eat, how to relax and amuse oneself - have now been "colonised" by reflexivity, and are experienced as something to be learned and decided on. ...[[future]] of humanity offer one example of this. [[Another]] is provided by the [[scene]] in [[cyberspace]] movies in which the hero (or often the hero

...the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined by a fundamental passivity, and it is the object from which movement comes, i. ...twist by means of which I myself am included into the picture constituted by me - it is this reflexive short-circuit, this necessary REDOUBLING of mysel

by [[Slavoj Žižek]] ...ch is an "abstract [[negation]]" of polytheism and, as such, still haunted by it (Jehovah - plural; do not celebrate [[other]] gods IN FRONT OF ME; etc.)

...the [[true]] union of the East and the West – the point made exemplarily by Claude Levi-[[Strauss]]: ..../<BR><BR>The West should [[return]] to the sources of its torn condition: by way of interposing itself between [[Buddhism]] and Christianity, Islam isla

...]'s [[distinction]] between Ought and Must, an authentic [[revolution]] is by definition performed as a Must - it is not something we "ought to do" as an ...e]] main versions of theorizing these catastrophes: (1) the one epitomized by the name of [[Habermas]]: [[Enlightenment]] is in itself a positive emancip

...elief in the ultimate goodness of man in spite of the horrors accomplished by men against [[Jews]] in [[World]] War II: what renders such an assertion of ...which the [[ideological]] belief is transposed onto the Other is disturbed by the violent return of the immediate belief - they "really believe it." The

...how one should read the famous "inner voice <i>linnere Stimmel</i>" added by Schumann (in the written score) as a [[third]] line between the two piano l ...up every night, etc.; however, this explicit [[homophobia]] is accompanied by an excessive set of implicit web of [[homosexual]] innuendos, inner [[jokes

...cable: are they not fully justified in their worry that the [[film]], made by a fanatic [[Catholic]] traditionalist with occasional anti-Semitic outburst .... A glimpse into the Pope's spontaneous reaction was thus quickly replaced by the "official" neutral stance, corrected in [[order]] not to hurt anyone. T

...g premise is sceptic-[[conservative]] - Lacan's diagnosis is best captured by his famous retort to the student revolutionaries: "As [[hysterics]], you [[ ...y measures (cutting [[welfare]] expenses, etc.) as a [[necessity]] imposed by his neutral expertise devoid of any [[ideological]] biases: what he conceal

"Democracy" is not merely the "power of, by, and for the people," it is not enough just to claim that, in democracy, th ...e the suspension of democracy: what if the formally free elections are won by an anti-democratic party whose platform promises the abolition of formal de

...rs." This is how Levinas defines the "reconciliatory sacrifice": a gesture by means of which the Same as the hostage take the place of (replaces) the Oth ...being and its immanent powers: do I have (the right) to be? Is it not that by insisting in being, I deprive others of their place, I ultimately kill them

...the big other pulls the strings, the subject doesn't speak, he "is spoken" by the symbolic structure. The paradox, the "infinite judgment" of <i>The Matr ...not only of their true situation, but also of the threat posed in reality by the evil agent who intends to kill them shortly. It is as if the subjects o

...ad, those who are in a way already dead (their [[right]] to live forfeited by being legitimate targets of murderous bombings), so that they are now cases ...as a legal [[power]], their [[acts]] are no longer covered and constrained by the law - they operate in an empty space that is still within the [[domain]

...mpeccable: are they not fully justified in their worry that the film, made by a fanatic Catholic traditionalist with occasional anti-Semitic outbursts, m .... A glimpse into the Pope's spontaneous reaction was thus quickly replaced by the "official" neutral stance, corrected in order not to hurt anyone. This

...the source of speculations on how our [[world]] is just a mirage generated by a [[global]] [[Mind]] embodied in the World Wide Web... ...at we [[experience]] as reality is an artificial virtual reality generated by the "Matrix," the mega-computer directly attached to all our minds), but th

...f gigantic cranes was staged as an art performance - doubtlessly perceived by a lot of uninformed bypassers as part of an intense construction [[activity ...]], Tom gets more and more fascinated not only by Dickie himself, but also by the polished, easy-going, socially acceptable upper-[[class]] [[life]] that

...est strivings only he expresses. The catch is, those who oppose the leader by definition not only oppose him, but they also oppose the deepest and nobles ..., for example, at the U.S. decision to impose steel tariffs, ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization and certainly in violation of its own sacrosan

...ons inspectors were asking for - more time - and were scathingly dismissed by the US.<br><br> ...he thirty-one page paper entitled "The National Security Strategy," issued by the White House on September 20, 2002)? Its main points are: American milit

by [[Slavoj Žižek]] In his reaction to the photos showing Iraqi prisoners tortured and humiliated by U.S. soldiers, President George W. [[Bush]], as expected, emphasized how th

...[[freedom]] of [[choice]], when the only choice is the one between playing by the rules and ([[self]]-)destructive violence, a violence which is almost e ...action is worse: they are BOTH worse, inclusive of the warning, formulated by both sides, about the real danger of these outbursts residing in the easily

The excitation and the sense of urgency caused by the daily reports on violent demonstrations against the perpetrators of Muh ...hat distance is included into the very social texture: even if I live side by side with others, the normal state is to ignore them. I am allowed not to g

...t, moved to Davos. The tone of the Davos meetings is now predominantly set by the group of entrepreneurs who ironically refer to themselves as ‘[[liber ...s – teaches us that private enterprise is by far the most effective way. By regulating their business, taxing them excessively, the state is underminin

...here was no need to prove they were [[guilty]], since they were [[guilty]] by virtue of being [[Jews]]. ...s <em>To Be or Not to Be</em>, [[Hitler]] responds to the [[Nazi]] salute by raising his hand and saying: ‘Heil myself!’ This is pure [[humour]] be

...Heidegger perceived as the '[[danger]]' inherent in modern [[technology]]. By reducing a human being to a natural object whose properties can be altered, The prospect of biogenetic [[intervention]] opened up by increasing access to the human genome effectively emancipates humankind fro

...d]]: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our [[Time]]</i> by [[Timothy Garton Ash]] ...) read like a [[list]] of desiderata: the developed countries should abide by the rules of fair competition they want to impose on the underdeveloped one

<i>Vaclav [[Havel]]: A [[Political]] [[Tragedy]] in Six [[Acts]]</i> by John Keane · Bloomsbury, 532 pp, £25.00 ...hentic ethical stance has become a moralising idiom cynically appropriated by the knaves of capitalism. His heroic insistence on doing the impossible (op

...ly, as [[evil]] [[children]] who have to be brought back to an honest life by stern [[discipline]] and [[punishment]]. What if the [[true]] aim of the [[ ...apiers'. Perhaps the [[category]] of [[homo sacer]], brought back into use by Giorgio [[Agamben]] in Homo Sacer: Sovereign [[Power]] and [[Bare life|Bare

...the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined by a fundamental passivity, and it is the object from which movement comes, i. ...the focus of my [[libido|libidinal investment]], and this shift is caused by some unfathomable x, a ''je ne sais quoi'' in the object which cannot ever

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...cording to Negri, is becoming almost indistinguishable from [[communism]]. By Negri’s reckoning, both the old Right—with its ridiculous [[belief]] in ...is not to earn [[money]], but to change the world (and, in this way, as a by-product, make even more money).

...[[nature]] of the series confers a strong [[sense]] of urgency, emphasized by the ticking of a digital clock and accentuated with hand-held camera shots ...all, they are dealing with the “[[ticking bomb]]” [[situation]] evoked by [[Alan Dershowitz]] to justify torture in his book, <i>Why [[Terrorism]] Wo

...uclear weapon]] - an assessment that differs with earlier timetables cited by Bush administration officials, who estimated that Iran was only five years ...ism]] - all the way up to today’s "[[war on terror]]." The threats posed by such an invisible enemy legitimizes the [[logic]] of the [[preemptive strik

...hey can do it if it is their free choice and not an option imposed on them by their husbands or family. However, the [[moment]] women wear a [[veil]] as ...s a "[[meta-choice]]," a choice that simultaneously defines and is defined by the [[conditions]] of the choice itself. It is only the [[woman]] who does

...cials. A glimpse into the Pope’s spontaneous reaction was thus replaced by the “[[official]],” neutral stance, corrected so as not to hurt anyone. Today, in our era of over-sensitivity regarding “[[harassment]]” by the [[Other]], it’s increasingly common to hear complaints [[about]] “[

[[Democracy]] is not merely the “[[power]] of, by, and for the [[people]].” It is not enough just to [[claim]] that, in de ...erate the suspension of democracy: What if formally free elections are won by an anti-[[Democratic Party|democratic party]] whose platform promises the a

and see around us is a [[virtual]] one, generated and coordinated by hero, played by Keanu Reeves, awakens into the “[[real]] reality,” he

...the nightmare called [[Saddam]]. To this majority, the caution expressed by [[West]]ern [[liberal]]s cannot but appear deeply hypocritical. Do they re ...emocratically elected leader, for maintaining an anti-war stance supported by the large majority of Germans. In [[Turkey]], according to opinion polls,

...of [[energy]]. New Agers see how our [[world]] is just a mirage generated by a [[global]] [[Mind]] embodied in the World Wide Web. Or the series is a ba ...strings; the [[subject]] doesn’t [[speak]], the subject “is spoken” by [[the symbolic]] [[structure]]. This big Other is the [[name]] for the soci

...er [[personality]]? It seems that the [[fear]] of those who are fascinated by Leni is no longer “When will she die?” but “Will she <i>ever</i> die? ...omes the [[victim]] of a pogrom—there is no [[other]] appropriate word—by the villagers? (Perhaps it is not an accident that Béla Balázs, Leni’s

...seem unassailable: Are they not justified to worry that the [[film]], made by a fanatic [[Catholic]] known for occasional [[anti-Semitic]] outbursts, may ...[[Vatican]] speakers. The Pope’s spontaneous reaction was thus replaced by an “[[official]]” [[neutrality]], corrected so as not to hurt anyone.

...r granted; we still [[know]] what [[true]] culture is, not being corrupted by the cheap Americanized mass culture. ...either by isolating themselves from the cultural mainstream in Slovenia or by simply leaving the country for some [[time]], [[living]] in [[Vienna]] or [

...d more like a [[list]] of desiderata (the developed countries should abide by the rules of fair [[market]] competition they impose on the underdeveloped ...nt [[them]]. My own [[perception]] of these problems is hopelessly tinted by “outmoded” [[Marxism]]: The four trouble spots [[Ash]] identifies are c

...the [[nightmare]] called Saddam. To this majority, the caution expressed by [[West]]ern [[liberals]] can only appear deeply hypocritical — do they re ...umanity]]. No wonder many authentic [[theology|theologians]] are appalled by these kinds of statements from [[Bush]], detecting in them a terrifying sac

...the results of their personality, not as the result of being thrown around by [[market]] forces.<br><br> ...rhaps, one should take the risk of abandoning it to the enemy. Where, how, by whom are the key decisions concerning [[global]] social issues made? Are th

...evision]]. This idea was realized in the guise of a keyboard [[machine]]; by pressing on different keys, it was possible to produce different kinds of l ...This [[role]] can be played not only by [[another]] [[human being]], but by a machine, as in the [[case]] of [[Tibet]]an [[prayer wheel]]s: I put a wri

...National Security Strategy of the [[United States]] of America,” issued by the White House on September 20, the doctrine’s main points are: 1) Ameri ...ared not only by majorities in [[Germany]] and many other states, but also by a considerable percentage of the American people and Congress. Schröder’

...t]] to disappoint them, they pretend to believe so as not to disappoint us by puncturing our belief in their naivety (and to get the presents, of course) ...e <i>did not occur</i>: Non-verified rumors were simply reported as facts by the [[media]]. For example, on September 3, the Superintendent of the New

...e majority, the delegates unanimously approved the [[resolution]] proposed by the Central Committee.” If the vote was unanimous, where then did the mi “[[Democracy]]” is not merely the “power of, by and for the people.” It is not enough to [[claim]] that in a democracy t

...dually sliding into [[Evil]] by giving way to the temptation of [[Power]], by falling under the spell of the evil Emperor. In [[other]] [[words]], Lucas ...sents itself as the remedy against the stress of capitalism's dynamics — by allowing us to uncouple and retain some inner peace — it actually functio

...hat's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America'' by Thomas Frank. ...nces]], a fight whose outcome is thoroughly [[contingent]], not guaranteed by any [[external]] reference like "objective socio-economic position."

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...Law itself is not "[[natural]]," spontaneous, but always-already mediated by the ([[repression]] of the) desire to [[transgress]] it. When we obey the L [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]

...in all this, the very fact that the no in both countries was not sustained by a coherent alternative political vision is the strongest possible condemnat ...elite. It was the fear that people would no longer be so easily convinced by their "post-political" vision.

...s. [[Others]] again believe it to be of [[German]] origin, only influenced by Slavonic. The uncertainty of both [[interpretations]] allows one to assume [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]

...an obscure Unnameable. Even [[Nazi]] [[anti-Semitism]] opened up a world: by way of describing the [[present]] critical [[situation]], naming the [[enem ...achieved, unlimited jouissance whose existence is necessarily presupposed by the [[subject]] who imputes it to [[another]] subject, his/her "subject sup

...[[workers]], peasants and honest intellectuals" - as if intellectuals are, by their very [[nature]], suspicious, all too free-[[floating]], [[lacking]] a ...ychologists, trying to cope with the [[real]]-[[life]] problems engendered by our "risk [[society]]", aware that old ideological solutions are useless. B

...on reality TV is thus the ironic version of this disclaimer recently used by a Slovene [[author]]: "All characters in the following narrative are fictio [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]

...self]]-love, a trace of [[natural]] egocentrism from which we must be torn by the religious [[life]]. As long as you [[think]] only salvation, you turn y [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]

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...e majority, the delegates unanimously approved the [[resolution]] proposed by the Central Committee." If the vote was unanimous, where then did the minor "Democracy" is not merely the "[[power]] of, by and for the [[people]]"; it is not the salient feature of democracy that th

...ker'', anticapitaliste virulent et lacanien subtil, le philosophe slovène Slavoj [[Zizek]] était [[encore]] inconnu en [[France]]. De lui, on publie aujour On le découvre à peine en France, mais [[Slavoj Zizek]] est déjà un poids lourd de la pensée mondiale. Surnommé le "Mar

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...ty in James Pattison's <i>The Skull Mantra</i>). Maybe, the novels written by a foreigner with a critical-spiritual engagement are the worst of this genr ...Frost</i>, the last novel (not yet translated into English), he is joined by his daughter Lisa who, after a troubled youth, also becomes a police invest

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...mpeccable: are they not fully justified in their worry that the film, made by a fanatic Catholic traditionalist with occasional anti-Semitic outbursts, m .... A glimpse into the Pope's spontaneous reaction was thus quickly replaced by the "official" neutral stance, corrected in order not to hurt anyone. This

Daphne du Maurier: her prose seems marked by a melodramatic [[excess]] that often comes tremendous [[power]] of [[fascination]] exerted by her stories? What if these two features are

..., a terrorist attack in the West. If the war is over quickly (perhaps even by the [[time]] this is published) and if [[Saddam]]'s [[regime]] disintegrate [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]

An Interview with Slavoj [[Zizek]]<br> <b>[[Slavoj Zizek]]</b>: No, no I don't think this is any longer the unwritten rule. I

...tion]] HAS to be reflected back into God Himself, so that God is abandoned BY HIMSELF: [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]

...ure and accepted for the credit sequence the song Vertigo, already written by the standard couple Livingstone-Evans? And, what if the [[film]] had been r 3. And, is this presumption not confirmed by what we see a couple of minutes later? When, after the phone call, Scottie

...rain, and the one is struck by the extraordinary package [[being]] carried by the [[other]]. He asks his companion, 'What is in that unusual package you ...ly heightens the destructive [[power]] of the [[remainder]]? As such, they by definition cannot ever be found, and are therefore all the more dangerous..

...g premise is sceptic-[[conservative]] - Lacan's diagnosis is best captured by his famous retort to the student revolutionaries: "As [[hysterics]], you [[ ...y measures (cutting [[welfare]] expenses, etc.) as a [[necessity]] imposed by his neutral expertise devoid of any [[ideological]] biases: what he conceal

...] like Zardoz or Logan's Run forecasted today's [[postmodern]] predicament by extending this fantasy to the [[community]] itself: the isolated group livi ...ts citizens were introduced to the "desert of the real" - to us, corrupted by Hollywood, the landscape and the shots we saw of the collapsing towers coul

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Slavoj [[Zizek]]: I do [[claim]] that what is sold to us today as [[freedom]] is s ...really began with the First World War. We all [[remember]] the war reports by Ernst J?nger, in which he praises this eye-to-eye combat experience as the

...in]] of doxa, of pragmatic considerations and compromises which always and by definition fall short of the unconditional [[ethical]] [[demand]]. The [[no ...the results of my personality, not as the result of me being thrown around by the [[market]] forces.

...he entire established political spectrum. These are the excluded ones who, by this very exclusion (their 'unacceptability' for governmental office), furn ...one would expect. The populist Right moves to occupy the terrain evacuated by the Left, as the only 'serious' political force that still employs an anti-

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...genre or at least a new trend: the [[holocaust]] comedies. It was followed by [[Jacob]] the Liar with Robin Williams, the remake of the old GDR classic [ ...e terrified girl just silently stares in front of her, totally immobilized by mortal [[fear]]: while she attracts him sexually, he finds her unacceptable

...oming from behind our backs, from our innermost background, later rejoined by the visual [[object]], the source of this sound - a gigantic space ship, a ...ce disturbed by the arrival of a group of space-travelers. Strange attacks by an invisible monster soon start to occur, and, at the [[film]]'s end, it be

...nd what to eat, how to relax and amuse oneself - have now been "colonised" by reflexivity, and are experienced as something to be learned and decided on. ...[[future]] of humanity offer one example of this. [[Another]] is provided by the [[scene]] in [[cyberspace]] movies in which the hero (or often the hero

...he Earth, what they find there is no longer the bright surface illuminated by the rays of the Sun, the supreme Good, but the desolate "desert of the real ...ificial universe is hardly original: <i>The Matrix</i> just radicalizes it by bringing in virtual reality. The point here is the radical ambiguity of the

...of respect for human rights, in a way commanded not only by conscience but by the relevant documents of international law." This "higher law" has its "de ...ent." So a free translation of "military pacificism" would be roughly "war by people that have always said they were against it." But Beck's phrase is ki

...not touched by the war raging all around it, is not irrationally attacked by the NATO madmen destroying bridges and hospitals... For years, Milosevic wa ...s in a closed loop of Destiny, the arrow returned to the one who lanced it by way of setting free the [[spectre]] of ethnic passions. This is the key poi

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...rein resides the [[dialectic]] of "You can only prove that you [[love]] me by betraying me": the father is elevated into the venerated [[symbol]] of Law ...lic authority, we have now the symbolic authority (logos) betrayed, killed by his followers/sons, and returning in the guise of the jealous, vengeful and

...] explanatory presupposition, like the second [[stage]] (I am being beaten by my [[father]]) of the [[child]]'s fantasy "A child is being beaten" which, ...ible]] for the malfunction. While this is true, this "truth" is propagated by me to conceal the fact that the accident realized my desire. On the contrar

Slavoj [[Zizek]]: First I must say that I don't have my own positive [[theory]] [[ ...d as remainders of this imperial and sacrificing Japan, were indeed edited by Brecht. What they perceived as Japanese was Brecht.

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By Slavoj [[Zizek]]</font></td></tr><tr> ...ct for [[human rights]], in a way commanded not only by [[conscience]] but by the relevant documents of international law." This "higher law" has its "de

...? Was there ever a [[political]] manifesto that was more clearly falsified by subsequent historical [[reality]]? Isn't [[The Communist Manifesto]], at be ...n every quarter of the globe. In [[place]] of the old wants, [[satisfied]] by the productions of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their [[sa

</p><p><i><b>Editors' Note: Slavoj</b> [[Zizek]], a leading [[intellectual]] in the new Serbia, where this nationalist [[madness]] was fabricated by writers. Even in

...the impervious [[game]] of local interests which are no longer restricted by a [[formal]] [[legal]] framework. ...from Brussels and the international [[economic]] ties and from the bottom by local and ethnic interests, while none of these elements are strong enough

...ment from [[human]] [[desire]]. Kant's [[practical]] [[reason]], sustained by [[moral]] law, brings out desire at its utmost: we [[know]] nevertheless ho ...ted," not ''everything is permitted." I think this is perfectly epitomized by today's society of consumption. If God in the traditional sense as a univer

...g Man is Hitchcock at its purest. His special attachment to it is attested by the exceptional [[character]] of his cameo-[[appearance]] in the prologue; ...to take into account the strict [[concept]] of "[[sadism]]" as elaborated by [[Lacan]]. In "[[Kant]] with [[Sade]]," Lacan proposed two schemes which tr

...tion is wherever it arrives."5 Its underlying [[mechanism]] was elaborated by Pêcheux apropos of [[jokes]] of the type: "Daddy was [[born]] in Mancheste ...can, "[[Intervention]] on [[Transference]]" in In [[Dora]]'s [[Case]], ed. by Charles Bernheimer and Claire Cahan, London: Virago Press, 1985.back up

I [[want]] to address the problem of [[identification]] by confronting the predominant deconstructionist doxa according to which the m ...nconscious "passionate attachments," attachments publicly non-acknowledged by the subject:

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...in]] of doxa, of pragmatic considerations and compromises which always and by definition fall short of the unconditional [[ethical]] [[demand]]. The [[no ...the results of my personality, not as the result of me being thrown around by the [[market]] forces.

...of [[money]] begetting more money, of a [[system]] which can survive only by constantly revolutionizing its own [[conditions]]-that is to say, in which ...we are dealing with a nothing which acquires some deceptive substance only by magically spinning itself into an excess of itself. Does today's virtual ca

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...[work]] today. Drawing upon the [[full]] range of his prolific output, the articles here cover [[psychoanalysis]], [[philosophy]] and popular [[culture]], refl ...book includes a new preface by Žižek himself, as well as an introduction by the editors and a helpful [[glossary]] for those coming to Žižek’s work

...ing]] like it before. It's tempting to say never mind the bollocks, here's Slavoj [[Zizek]]. ...nly the brightest star in the [[philosophical]] cosmos, throwing out light by way of an infectious plundering of pop [[culture]] in movies, [[murder]] my

by Robert S. Boyton<br><br> ..., however, by the sudden, agitated entrance of the Slovenian philosopher [[Slavoj Zizek]], who is in town to deliver a series of lectures at the British [[Fi

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...As Zizek puts it: "Human life is never "just life," it is always sustained by an excess of life" (Zizek, 200 1: 104). This excess of life is death drive. The human condition is marked by an eternal and impossible attempt to bring about some sort of resolution to

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<tt>SLAVOJ ZIZEK: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION</tt></b></font><br><br> ...; 'A sharp, clear and radical analysis of Zizek's works which is sustained by an acute combination of a close reading of Zizek as a Lacanian and an exami

Miklitsch, R. (1998), "Going Through the Fantasy": Screening Slavoj Zizek", <i>The South Atlantic Quarterly</i>, 97(2), 475-507.<br> Dews, P. (1995), "The Tremor of Reflection: Slavoj Zizek's Lacanian Dialectics", <i>Radical Philosophy</i>, 72, 17-29.<br>

...]] begins his [[theoretical]] [[project]] in <i>[[Sublime]] [[Object]]</i> by taking up [[Laclau]] and [[Mouffe]]'s [[notion]] of 'radical [[democracy]]' ...ting]] ideological [[signifiers]] whose meaning is 'quilted' or determined by another but also that signifier which gives those others their meaning, to

...ect in the world? The penis, because it is the only one that can be raised by a mere thought' (TS, 382-3)? Who else, in a parody of the anthropologist Cl ...llow theorist Judith Butler writes on the back cover of one of his books: 'Slavoj lives to theorize', but we suspect the opposite is true and Zizek theorizes

SLAVOJ ZIZEK'S THIRD WAY.Rex [[Butler]] and [[Scott Stephens]]. [[lacan]] dot com This essay, "Slavoj [[Zizek]]'s [[Third]] Way", is the Editors' Introduction to the second volu

During the Seventh Crusade, led by St. Louis, Yves le [[Breton]] reported how he once encountered an old [[wom ...f I did not, I could not look at myself in the [[mirror]]. A moral deed is by definition its own reward. David [[Hume]], a believer, made this point in a

...The Authoritarian Personality (1950), a collective [[project]] coordinated by [[Adorno]], the [[purpose]] of which was, for MacDonald, to make every grou ...><i>CC</i></a><i>,</i> p. 232). We should have no illusions here. Measured by the standards of the great [[Enlightenment]] tradition, we are effectively

Rasmussen interviews writer Slavoj [[Zizek]] on his works and writings. In his early works, he linked [[Lacan] One of the most prolific thinkers alive, [[Slavoj Zizek]] has written over two-dozen books ranging from Lacan, Kant, Hegel, a

6:1 | © 2002 Slavoj Zizek ...from their homes, suffering carnage and Winter chill, ruthlessly exploited by their leaders for some obscure strategic goals. Such a tragic experience is

...introducing two books by ''Badiou: Can Politics Be [[Thought]]?'' followed by ''An Obscure Disaster: On the End of the [[Truth]] of [[State]] and What I He is the [[author]] of dozens of articles on modern [[Latin]] American literature and [[culture]], and on contemporar

...f-brother, is a brilliant but emotionally desiccated biochemist. Abandoned by their hippie [[mother]] when they were small, neither has ever properly rec ...epend on the sequences of [[symbols]], while a successful imitation of man by a machine would prove that this machine thinks, because "[[thinking]]" ulti

...t). This shift was precipitated most notably by a short, influential essay by Alexandre Astruc published in Écran française in [[1948]] entitled "La Ca ...nt ideology on a [[formal]] and/or thematic level, an enterprise displayed by the much-cited Cahiers article on Young Mr. Lincoln (1969). In these essays

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* "[['The Pervert's Guide to Cinema' - Slavoj Zizek interview]]." ''[[Time]] Out''. 6 October 2006. Gareth Evans. <http ...e [[Pervert]]'s [[Guide]] to Cinema'''', a [[three]]-part documentary made by Sophie Fiennes ('Hoover Street Revival'), opens at the ICA this Friday afte

...ibility for it, not to comfortably get rid of the "bad" turn of the things by way of attributing it to a foreign intruder (the "bad" Engels who was too s ...of the original constellation: from the most forward country (as expected by Marx) to a relatively backward country - the revolution "took place in a wr

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...him if the use of this term is really necessary - could he not replace it by a synonymous one, like "[[economy]]"? What better proof of the [[total]] tr ...irectly into the historical Substance, catastrophically disturbing its run by way of triggering an ecological catastrophe, a fateful biogenetic mutation,

...iel, one of the most exciting young voices in contemporary philosophy, and Slavoj Žižek, the celebrated contemporary philosopher and cultural critic, show ...to appear in reflection without falling back into traditional metaphysics. By applying idealistic theories of reflection and concrete subjectivity, inclu

...not touched by the war raging all around it, is not irrationally attacked by the NATO madmen destroying bridges and hospitals... For years, Milosevic wa ...s in a closed loop of Destiny, the arrow returned to the one who lanced it by way of setting free the [[spectre]] of ethnic passions. This is the key poi

=‘Hitchcock: Past and Future’ by Richard Allen &amp; Sam Ishii-Gonzáles= ...e lesser-known works including ''Juno and the Paycock'' and ''Frenzy''. Articles are grouped into four thematic sections: ‘Authorship and Aesthetics’ ex

=‘Interrogating the Real’ by Slavoj Žižek= [[Image:slavoj-zizek-interrogating-the-real-theoryleaks.jpg|frame|right|300px]]

=‘Mythology, Madness, and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism’ by Slavoj Žižek &amp; Markus Gabriel= ...ol for Social Research, NY. He has published a number of books and journal articles in German, including ''Der Mensch im Mythos ''(De Gruyter, 2006), and ''

=‘The Slovene re-actualization of Hegel’s philosophy’ by Jure Simoniti= ....ac.rs/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Mladen-Dolar.pdf PDF]====='''STUDIES AND ARTICLES'''====='''How is a Philosophy of Photography Possible?'''<br />''Valery Sav

=‘The Endgame of Aesthetics: From Hegel to Beckett’ by Mladen Dolar | Concept/s: Hegel’s Aesthetics Conference | AUFHEBUNG | 12 ...s Aesthetics Conference'''<br /> Ljubljana 11-14 January 2018<br /> Hosted by Aufhebung<br /> International Hegelian Association

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='Am I a Philosopher?' by Slavoj Žižek= [[Image:slavoj-zizek-am-i-a-philosopher-theoryleaks.jpg|400|right]]<br />'''Delivered at '

="Antinomies of Pure Sexuation" by Slavoj Žižek= ...ertain if our act was a truly free ethical act and not an act contaminated by pathological motivations: again, beneath this deploring, there is a relief

='Assange arrest final step in character assassination campaign' by Slavoj Žižek | 11. April 2019 | Russia Today= [[Image:slavoj-zizek-julian-assange-1024x576.jpg|400|right]]

='Beckett as the Writer of Abstraction' by Slavoj Žižek= ...he rejected by the girl, did he escape out of fear of marriage promulgated by the girl's mother? This vagueness which creates anxiety is a positive featu

='Beckett with Lacan' by Slavoj Žižek= ...nces, reducing it to a minimum of antagonism. Lacan gets sometimes seduced by the rhizomatic wealth of language beyond (or, rather, beneath) the formal s

='''Cogito'' in the History of Madness' by Slavoj Žižek= ...oint of absolute certainty, "subjective idealism") is perceived (not only) by common sense as the very epitome of the madness of philosophy, of its crazy

='Coke as ''objet petit a''' by Slavoj Žižek= ...arxian surplus-value), and the paradox of the superego, perceived long ago by Freud: the more Coke you drink, the thirstier you are; the more profit you

='Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange: our new heroes' by Slavoj Žižek | 3. September 2013 | The Guardian= But simple personalisation misses the point: the threat to freedom disclosed by whistleblowers has deeper, systemic roots. Edward Snowden should be defen

="from socrates onward the function of philosophy is to corrupt youth" by Slavoj Žižek= text by SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK<br /> portrait by MARK SELIGER (Purple Fashion magazine)

='Hegel with Beckett: The Persistence of Abstraction' by Slavoj Žižek= A new article on Georg W. F. Hegel and Samuel Beckett by the philosopher Slavoj Žižek published in the ''International Journal of Žižek Studies'' on Ma

='''Ibi Rhodus Ibi Saltus'': Theology, Hegel, Lacan' by Slavoj Žižek= [[Image:Ibi-Rhodus-Ibi-Saltus-Theology-Hegel-Lacan-slavoj-zizek-966x1024.jpg|400|right]]

...d Its Vicissitudes: Hegel's 'Logic of Essence' as a Theory of Ideology' by Slavoj Žižek= ...r example, is composed of the cluster of its social mandates which are all by definition differential: a person is 'father' only in relation to 'mother'

='In Defense of Hegel's Madness' by Slavoj Žižek= ...acy (difference and identity): every identity is mediated, it is sustained by a network of differences from what this object is not, from all other objec

='Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple' by Slavoj Žižek= ...t least a legitimate lineage from Sade to Fascist torturing, as is implied by Pasolini's film version of ''Saló'', which transposes it into the dark da

='Kant avec Althusser' by Slavoj Žižek= ...heless believe that she is"?[3] Why does knowledge have to be supplemented by belief? Is it that a belief emerges in order to compensate for the failure

='Lacan as a Reader of Hegel' by Slavoj Žižek= [[Image:slavoj-zizek-less-than-nothing-theoryleaks-625x1024.jpg|400|right]]

='Love Beyond Law' by Slavoj Žižek= ...The principal two among them are the notion of "love beyond Law" mentioned by Lacan in the very last page of his Seminar XI, [1] and the no less enigmati

='Marx as a Reader of Hegel, Hegel as a Reader of Marx' by Slavoj Žižek= [[Image:slavoj-zizek-less-than-nothing-theoryleaks-625x1024.jpg|400|right]]

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="Pathological Narcissus" as a Socially Mandatory Form of Subjectivity by Slavoj Žižek | 1986= ...inists, who understand it as a concealed re-affirmation of patriarchy, and by a broad range of the liberal New Left.

='Plato, Descartes, Hegel: Three Philosophers of Event' by Slavoj Žižek= [[Image:three-philosophers-of-the-event-slavoj-zizek-theoryleaks-1024x770.jpg|400|right]]

='Radical Evil as a Freudian Category' by Slavoj Žižek= ...one does not have to prove that they are guilty, they are guilty solely by being Jews. For this same reason, on Stalin's birthday, the prisoners were

='Sexuality in the Posthuman Age' by Slavoj Žižek= <div class="entry-content">[[Image:slavoj-zizek-sexuality-in-the-posthuman-age-theoryleaks.jpg|400|right]]Jane Fonda

=Slavoj Žižek= '''Slavoj Žižek''', Ph.D., is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, U

='The Seven Veils of Fantasy' by Slavoj Žižek= ...seven-veils-1024x835.jpg|400|right]]Dance Of The Seven Veils is a painting by Otto Pilny

='The Structure of Domination Today: A Lacanian View' by Slavoj Žižek= ...d, gratefully embraced him, crying with joy that she was no longer haunted by her father's despising attitude towards her.)

='The Superego and the Act' by Slavoj Žižek | August 1999 | Lecture Transcript | European Graduate School= ...Marxist surplus value, and the paradox of the superego, long ago perceived by Freud. The more profit you have, the more you want, the more you drink Coke

='The Undoing of an Event' by Slavoj Žižek= ...t nor prompt enough in responding to the issue of sexual abuse perpetrated by its clergy.

..., Creepy, Disgusting, and Other Modes of Abjection' by Jela Krečič &amp; Slavoj Žižek= ...ion of the ugly as an aesthetic category was first systematically deployed by Karl Rosenkranz—editor and scholar of G. W. F. Hegel, author of his first

="From Desire to Drive: Why Lacan is not Lacanian" by Slavoj Žižek= ...zation" thus consists in the purely formal gesture of symbolic conversion, by means of which the subject integrates into his symbolic universe – turns