Marx Reloaded and the revolutionary turn
This entertaining and thought-provoking German documentary starring Slavoj Žižek features interviews with some of the world’s most renowned thinkers, written and directed by British writer and theorist Jason Barker If you had your ear to the underground last year then…
Utopias of Democracy – 6th Subversive Festival in Croatia
From May 4-18, the 6th annual Subversive Festival in Zagreb will feature high-profile guests such as film director Oliver Stone, philosophers Slavoj Žižek and Tariq Ali, Bolivian Vice President Álvaro García Linera, and even Che Guevara’s oldest daughter, Aleida Guevara…
The great pretenders
The anonymous Slovenian meme-art collective Smetnjak shows no respect to some canonical figures of mainstream art and philosophy, from Marina Abramović to Žižek. But who will have the last laugh? Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the greatest pretender of…
The ultimate guide to buffoon philosophers
If everybody says Slavoj Zizek is a buffoon, what about the rest of the gang? Here’s the enlightening Bturn guide to buffoon philosophers It has become a standard practice among many scholars nowadays to take the piss out of old…
Slavoj Žižek & Boris Gunjevic @Palace of Fine Arts (SF)
Monday, April 23, 2012, 8:00 pm Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco(US) God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse / Crucified Subject: Without Grail. In Conversation with Roy Eisenhardt Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. His books include…