Slavoj Žižek

As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes and speculate on the profundity of its consequences? We live in a moment when the greatest act of love is to stay distant from the object of your affection. When governments renowned for ruthless cuts in public spending can suddenly conjure up trillions. When...

Documentary follows the eccentric Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek as he travels around the world lecturing ; includes Žižek lecture footage presented at Ljubljana University.

"A film about cinema itself, with close readings of some of the most intriguing and celebrated films in cinema history. Serving as guide is the charismatic Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek, who delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves. Structured in three parts, the Pervert's Guide To Cinema offers an introduction to Žižek's ideas on fantasy, reality, sexuality, subjectivity,...

2011 fue el año en que soñamos peligrosamente, el año del resurgimiento de la política emancipatoria radical en todo el mundo. Ahora, un año después, cada día nos trae nuevas pruebas de cuán frágil e inconsistente fue ese despertar, como prueban los nuevos síntomas de agotamiento: el entusiasmo de la primavera árabe se encuentra bloqueado entre pactos inestables y fundamentalismo religioso; el movimiento Occupy Wall Street está perdiendo...

A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjévic. In six chapters that describe Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in fresh ways using the tools of Hegelian and Lacanian analysis, God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse shows how each faith understands humanity and...

In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world--changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Žižek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing how, with each new wave of innovation, we find ourselves moving closer and closer to a bizarrely literal realization of Marx's prediction that "all that is solid melts into air." With the automation...

Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world. Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions the permissiveness of violence in philanthropy;...

"Antígona contra las injustas leyes del Estado. Antígona defendiendo las leyes del corazón. Antígona frente a la ceguera complaciente. Antígona combatiendo el patriarcado. Son muchas y muy diversas las lecturas que se han hecho del clásico de Sófocles, de Platón a Judith Butler, pasando por Hegel o Kierkegaard. Ahora bien, nadie hasta hoy se había atrevido a reescribir Antígona como lo ha hecho Slavoj Žižek, con la declarada intención...

Si se han podido inyectar miles de millones de dólares en el sistema bancario mundial en un intento desesperado por estabilizar los mercados financieros, ¿por qué no se han podido unir las mismas fuerzas para afrontar la pobreza mundial y la crisis medioambiental? Sin dejar títere con cabeza, Slavoj Žižek realiza un análisis en el que enmarca los fallos morales del mundo moderno en los acontecimientos que marcaron la primera década de este...

Cultural theorist superstar Slavoj Zizek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes (*The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema*) for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, Zizek literally goes inside some truly epochal movies, all the better to explore and expose how they reinforce prevailing ideologies. Official Selection at the **Toronto International...