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13 unusual facts about Slavoj Zizek


Anton Vidokle

During the past three years, the journal published 36 issues containing more than 250 essays by writers such as Hito Steyerl, Martha Rosler, Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Franco Berardi (Bifo), Jalal Toufic, Slavoj Žižek, Diedrich Diedrichsen, Raqs Media Collective and numerous other contributors.

Astra Taylor

Astra Taylor is a Canadian-American documentary filmmaker, writer, and musician, best known for her 2005 film, Zizek!, about the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, and for her 2008 film, Examined Life.

David Bordwell

Many philosophers have criticized neoformalism, notably Slavoj Žižek, of whom Bordwell has himself been a long-time critic.

Electro-Acoustic Ensemble

Futurist Manifesto was premiered at a guest lecture by philosopher Slavoj Žižek at Loyola University New Orleans on November 17, 2009.

False pleasure

Slavoj Žižek had added a further twist to the debate for the 21st century, arguing that in a postmodern age dominated by what he calls "the superego injunction to enjoy that permeates our discourse", the quest for pleasure has become more of a duty than a pleasure: for Žižek, "psychoanalysis is the only discipline in which you are allowed not to enjoy" !

Josefina Ayerza

Its archives contain scholarly work and videos of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, Jacques-Alain Miller as well as a vast bibliography of contemporary living artists.

Jouissance

The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, a known Lacanian theorist, has adopted the term in his philosophy; it may also be seen in the works, both joint and individual, of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and it plays an important role in the writing of Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes.

Lawrence Konner

In 2005, Konner produced the film Zizek!, a documentary which follows the internationally renowned philosopher Slavoj Žižek on a worldwide speaking tour.

Rebecca Schiffman

Schiffman's watercolor portrait of philosopher Slavoj Žižek appeared as the author image on the inside book jacket for the UK edition of his book "Violence."

Sławoj

Slavoj Žižek, a Slovenian continental philosopher and critical theorist

Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution

Contesting Robespierre's legacy is Slavoj Žižek, who argues that terror in the cause of virtue is justifiable, and Simon Schama, who believes the road from Robespierre ran straight to the gulag and the 20th-century concentration camp.

The Cares of a Family Man

Slavoj Žižek emphasizes in his analysis that Odradek "once had some sort of intelligible shape and is now only a broken-down remnant," and as such it should be part of a whole.

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema is a 2006 documentary directed and produced by Sophie Fiennes, scripted and presented by Slavoj Žižek.


Aleida Guevara

She also participates as public intellectual and activist in conferences, debates and festivals, such as the Subversive Festival on May 4–8, 2013 in Zagreb, Croatia, where she is guest speaker next to other notable public thinkers like Slavoj Zizek and Tariq Ali.

Bukla Magazine

The authors interviewed by Bukla Magazine include Boris Pahor, Renata Salecl, Goran Vojnović, Miha Mazzini, Evald Flisar, Jani Virk, Milan Jesih, Aleš Debeljak, Mladen Dolar, and Slavoj Žižek.

Four discourses

Slavoj Žižek uses the theory to explain various cultural artefacts, including Don Giovanni and Parsifal.

International Association for Philosophy and Literature

Some recent keynote or plenary speakers have included: Rosi Braidotti, Jacques Derrida, Steve Dixon, Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Peter Greenaway, Sneja Gunew, Steven Holl, Dominique Janicaud, Stelarc, Slavoj Žižek

Mladen Dolar

Dolar was the co-founder, together with Slavoj Žižek and Rastko Močnik, of the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis, whose main goal is to achieve a synthesis between Lacanian psychoanalysis and the philosophy of German idealism.

Néstor Braunstein

Braunstein recognizes the following authors as the main influences on his thought: Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Louis Althusser, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, Slavoj Žižek and Giorgio Agamben.

Political theology

Many leading non-Christian thinkers have written extensively on the topic of political theology in recent years, such as Jürgen Habermas, Giorgio Agamben, Simon Critchley, and Slavoj Zizek.