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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek, a Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst, is a senior researcher at the the Institute for Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London. He has also been a visiting professor at more than 10 universities around the world. Žižek is the author of many books, including Living in the End Times, First As Tragedy, Then As Farce, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously and Trouble in Paradise.
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Slavoj Zizek: We Must Rise from the Ashes of Liberal Democracy
Trump is a threat to global stability—only a new Left international can beat him. MORE
Views · March 3, 2017
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Slavoj Zizek: Lessons From the “Airpocalypse”
On China's smog problem and the ecological crisis. MORE
Features · January 10, 2017
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Slavoj Zizek: The Left’s Fidelity to Castro-ation
In the last decades, Cuban “socialism” continued to live only because it didn’t yet notice it was already dead. MORE
Features · November 29, 2016
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Slavoj Zizek on Clinton, Trump and the Left’s Dilemma
To paraphrase Stalin: They are both worse. MORE
Features · November 7, 2016
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Slavoj Žižek: Clinton, Trump and the Triumph of Global Capitalism
Why the Hillary Clinton consensus is a threat to democracy—and the Left. MORE
Features · August 24, 2016
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Democracy’s Fascism Problem
Europe has a ‘democracy deficit’ on both the Left and the Right MORE
Features · April 29, 2016
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Stranger Danger: To Resolve the Migrant Crisis We Must Recognize the Stranger Within Ourselves
It is such silence that really helps our racist enemies in that it feeds the distrust of ordinary people—(“You see, they are not telling us the truth!”)—boosting the credibility of racist rumors and lies. MORE
Views · March 19, 2016
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Slavoj Zizek: The Need to Traverse the Fantasy
A call to mobilize Europe's radical-emancipatory tradition, and why we need a solidarity of struggles, not a "dialogue of cultures" MORE
Features · December 28, 2015
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Slavoj Zizek: In the Wake of Paris Attacks the Left Must Embrace Its Radical Western Roots
Zizek responds to his critics on the refugee crisis. MORE
Features · November 16, 2015
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Slavoj Zizek: We Can’t Address the EU Refugee Crisis Without Confronting Global Capitalism
The refugees won't all make it to Norway. Nor does the Norway they seek exist. MORE
Features · September 9, 2015