Slavoj Iek - Collected Recordings

On ideology, politics, and Beckett at Seton Hall University, New Jersey

Part 1 of the masterclass: Sex and the Failed Absolute Is it possible for us, finite and mortal humans, to achieve some kind of contact with the Absolute? As far as I know the second session was not recorded. Please … Continue reading →

at The European Graduate School / EGS Saas-Fee, Switzerland

This is a varied talk, including subjectivity, sex, robots and rights Stuttgart, Germany

The Birkbeck School of Law and The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities London, England

Speech during the Heartland Festival via Heartland Podcast #15 Kvaerndrup, Denmark

Live stream at the 2018 4th Biennial Zizek Studies Conference in Athens, GA

School of Artistic Professions at the Círculo de Bellas Artes Madrid, Spain

Žižek’s last ‘Like a Thief in the Night’ masterclass. In this lecture, Žižek returns to the question of radical change, digitalisation of social space, political correctness and of course manners. Lecture was delivered at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities … Continue reading →

Lecture at Babylon in Berlin during LUBITSCH FROM BERLIN, the first international conference on Lubitsch in germany

This lecture was the keynote at the Lack II conference organised at Colorado College, delivered at Celeste Theatre

The talk was a part of the project “Central Eastern Europe. Transformation – Integration – Revolution“ in Warsaw

In an interview with the german newspaper Neues Deutschland, Žižek talks about DDR-pornography, #metoo, the new blade runner movie and robots. The first question he was asked is in german and was “You introduced the term disparities. Does Wolfgang Fritz Haug … Continue reading →

Žižek appeared alongside Alenka Zupančič and Mladen Dolar to discuss the varying topics from philosophy and psychoanalysis to Trump and the Soviet Revolution Deutsches Haus, New York University

International conference “1917/2017. Revolutions, Communist Legacies and the Spectres of the Future” October 24-26.10.2017 European University at St. Petersburg

The School of Law and the Birkbeck Institute of the Humanities are very pleased to announce this historic event, featuring two of Europe’s foremost intellectuals in conversation with each other on their recent work. While Slavoj Žižek is a regular … Continue reading →

Masterclass: Masterclass: Transcendental Subjectivity, Sexual Difference, Brain Sciences Part 2. The two classes will examine how Lacan’s teaching enables us to grasp sexual difference as the constitutive feature of transcendental subjectivity, plus how recent advances in brain sciences continue to rely … Continue reading →

Masterclass: Masterclass: Transcendental Subjectivity, Sexual Difference, Brain Sciences Part 1. The two classes will examine how Lacan’s teaching enables us to grasp sexual difference as the constitutive feature of transcendental subjectivity, plus how recent advances in brain sciences continue to rely … Continue reading →

The philosopher Slavoj Zizek was interviewed in a London café in July 2017 by Anja Steinbauer and Katy Baker from Philosophy Now magazine. Edited transcript from Philosophy Now Issue 122 here: https://philosophynow.org/issues/122/Slavoj_Zizek

We are often told that psychoanalysis is dead. Outdated scientifically, in that the Freudian model of the mind has been superseded by neurobiology; outdated clinically, where the talking cure has lost ground to drug treatment or behavioural therapy; outdated socially, … Continue reading →