Slavoj Iek - Collected Recordings

Recorded on 11 November 2014 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

Philosopher Slavoj Žižek and former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange discuss Europe’s future. With the recent economic crisis in Greece, unprecedented challenges to centralised European policy, and the lack of consensus on the ongoing refugee … Continue reading →

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Department of German at NYU present a talk by Slavoj Žižek who will speak on “Is Hegel Dead—Or Are We Dead in the Eyes of Hegel? A Hegelian View of the Present Age.” Introduced … Continue reading →

Audio record­ing of Sla­voj Žižek’s talks in Istan­bul Mod­ern Museum on 25th July 2015, organ­ized by Encore Pub­lish­ing

Sla­voj Žižek’s third lec­ture at the Lon­don Crit­ical The­ory Sum­mer School. Birk­beck

Sla­voj Žižek’s second lec­ture at the Lon­don Crit­ical The­ory Sum­mer School. Birk­beck

First lec­ture from The Lon­don Crit­ical The­ory Sum­mer School at Birk­beck with com­ments on Greece. Held on 6th July 2015

Slavoj Žižek in the second of two conversations with the popular and charismatic interviewer Paul Holdengräber, director of Public Programs at the New York Public Library The Royal Library, Copenhagen

On May 5, 2015 the Slovenian political philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek gave a talk at the IWM, chaired by Sławomir Sierakowski, founder of the “Krytyka Polityczna” movement

Zizek on Syriza at NYU

Prin­ceton Uni­ver­sity

When a philo­sopher deals with another philo­sopher or philo­sophy, his or her stance is never the one of dia­logue, but always the one of divi­sion, of draw­ing the line that sep­ar­ates truth from fals­ity – from Plato whose focus is the … Continue reading →

Prin­ceton Uni­ver­sity

Two experts on Joseph Stalin – one a Marxist philosopher, the other a historian (Stephen Kotkin) – come together to discuss the Soviet dictator’s origins, and his painful mark on history

Slavoj Žižek held this lecture at Litteraturhuset in Oslo, Norway on December 12, 2014. It is part of a series of lectures on the topic of universalism, organized by Litteraturhuset. Other lecturers in the series include Wang Hui, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, … Continue reading →

Deutsches Haus at New York University presents: Slavoj Žižek: The Hegelian Wound Friday, September 26th, 2014 at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Film Center at NYU For Hegel, spirit is the wound of nature, it derails every natural balance, … Continue reading →

Conference by Slavoj Žižek at the Faculty of Fine Arts University of Porto FBAUP on “THE FREEDOM OF A FORCED CHOICE”

Towards a Materialist Notion of Freedom: Neurosciences and Freedom Birkbeck, University of London

Towards a Materialist Notion of Freedom: Freedom – For Whom? To do What? Birkbeck, University of London

Žižek discusses his book by the same title ‘Event: A Philosophical Journey Through A Concept’, going through such notions as violence, fundamentalism, ideology, political correctness, freedom, and of course event. From the Free Library of Philadelphia