This essay, which appears to be part of a longer piece not yet published, appears on lacan.com. “Ne s’autorise que d’elle même,” of course, is “not authorized except by itself.” With Lenin, as with Lacan, the point is that a revolution ne s’autorise que d’elle-même: one should assume the revolutionary act not covered by the [...]
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Climate change and the relation between history and nature
Although this piece may not seem to fall within the theoretical realm, Zizek, as is usual with him (and one reason why his writing is valuable and interesting), works toward a theoretical point at the end. Reprinted from The Symptom. “Nature” thereby literally becomes a socio-historical category…in the sense of something that is not just [...]
Zizek, materialism, and the dictatorship of the proletariat
It is hard to imagine the last ten years without Slovoj Zizek on the intellectual/ political scene — or should I say it would be painful to imagine his absence. In a flood of books and shorter pieces he has torn up the landscape — in a productive way and with a deeply serious purpose, [...]
Jameson: “the true meaning of Lenin”
I’ve been reading a few of the papers collected in Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth, a quite wonderful book, which I had laid aside after reading little more than the Introduction when it was published a couple of years ago. The book, edited by Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, and Slovoj Zizek, is an [...]
An interview with Zizek
Zizek — where don’t we find him today? An outpouring of books, articles, op-ed columns, a movie, lectures on you-tube — always interesting, always provocative, usually insightful, sometimes funny…. Appreciative as we may be of this largesse, it often feels as if his thinking is simply a hodge-podge of insight and provocation, cultural critique and [...]
Some comments on Zizek’s latest book
The following, from The Accursed Share, comments on Zizek’s new book, First As Tragedy, Then As Farce. Institutionalizing Revolution By Nick Srnicek While I’ve not always been a fan of Zizek’s political analyses, I have to say, his latest book is terrific. There’s any number of really great ideas by him in it, but I’ll [...]
On The Idea Of Communism: Communism 2.0?
This was originally posted on the Kafila blog. As always, posting material does not imply agreement. Re-booting Communism Or Slavoj Zizek and the End of Philosophy – I Today, 13 March, a whole galaxy of philosophers and theorists got together for a three-day conference “On The Idea of Communism” under the auspices of the Birkbeck [...]
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