Slavoj Iek - Collected Recordings

This talk considers the ways in which Marx’s notion of “surplus-value” bears on Jacques Lacan’s idea of a “surplus-enjoyment” which, rather than a simple stepping up of pleasure, designates an additional pleasure obtained by its very deferral. These insights, it … Continue reading →

In the Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) of Harman and his colleagues, the human subject is redefined according to the pressures of a “flat ontology” that treats all objects equally. In opposition to OOO, Žižek upholds the pivotal role of the subject as theorized … Continue reading →

In New York on the last day of an American tour, absorbing the demise of Yankee Stadium and maybe of Wall Street as we thought we knew it, Zizek’s talk is a blast-furnace but not a blur. The theme through … Continue reading →

In a new book, Against the Double Blackmail, in response to Europe’s refugee crisis, philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that the left must shed its liberal taboos in favour of global, class solidarity. At a Guardian Live event, Gary Younge sat … Continue reading →

At Birkbeck, University of London

Part 3 of the Masterclass 23, 25 & 26.03.2016 While the global political and social situation is getting more and more explosive, emancipatory struggles are more and more hampered by ideological prejudices. This is why some ruthless clarifications are necessary. … Continue reading →

Is pleasure a rotten idea, mired in negativity and lack, which should be abandoned in favor of a new concept of desire? Or is desire itself fundamentally a matter of lack, absence, and loss? This is one of the crucial … Continue reading →

Public Lecture a the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities Birkbeck, University of London

Part 3 of the Masterclass: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis In the entire span of his teaching, Lacan was engaged in an intense debate with philosophy and philosophers, from ancient Greek materialists to Plato, from Stoics to Thomas Acquinas, from Descartes … Continue reading →

Part 2 of the Masterclass: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis with a contribution from Frank Ruda Birkbeck, University of London

Lecture at the Munich School of Philosophy

Event: Coming to Terms with Film-Philosophy Toronto, Canada

Zizeks latest book is Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences. Turning the Deleuzian terminology around he analyzes these organs without bodies in the work of Hitchcock and in films such as Fight Club, identifying a Deleuze closer to the … Continue reading →

“God Without the Sacred: The Book of Job, The First Critique of Ideology” – a lecture by Slavoj Zizek at New York Public Library on November 9, 2010.

Slavoj Zizek examines modern evil through a multitude of variations on a single motive: home is evil. For Zizek, evil is not primarily a property of persons but evil has to be defined in topological terms. Evil is a certain … Continue reading →

Slavoj Zizek is the guest on The Zero Squared Podcast hosted by Douglas Lain as they discuss the flak he’s received for a few of his Lacanian interventions into politics recently, Marx’s Labor Theory of Value, and his most current book … Continue reading →

Deutsches Haus at New York University and NYU German Department present Racial Enjoyments: What the Liberal Left Doesn’t Want to Hear – November 2016 Introduction by Avital Ronell

“Idee des Kommunismus” – To Begin from The Beginning, or, How to get rid of Ghosts from the XXth Century Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, Berlin

Philosophers Nigel Warburton and Slavoj Žižek join Jela Krečič to discuss her new novel, ‘None Like Her’, a hapless tale of the fruitless search for a perfect partner. The nature of love and marriage, as well as comedy are hot … Continue reading →

Slavoj Žižek discusses his new book Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors: Against the Double Blackmail with Hari Kunzru at the Brooklyn Public Library