Zizek spoke October 26 at St Mark’s Bookshop in Manhattan. What follows is not the complete talk, but some interesting parts. Reprinted from impose (with a few corrections), where the complete transcript can be found. Bill Clinton says ominously, “because your demands create a vacuum, and if you don’t bring quickly concrete proposals which will fill in [...]
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Zizek on our situation — and communism
Slovaj Zizek is always interesting, always changing, often irritating or apparently dismissable, but always (I believe) serious and radical in intent. The following is republished here from the symptom. Our task is thus to remain faithful to this eternal Idea of communism: to the egalitarian spirit kept alive over thousands of years in revolts and utopian [...]
Zizek and Badiou
It has seemed to me for some time now that Zizek has been drawing his political inspiration and some of his main themes from Badiou (and I’d be anxious to hear others’ thoughts on this). But in Zizek these themes acquire a different spin and go in quite another direction than that which they have [...]
Can the impossible happen?
This essay originally appeared in the July-August New Left Review. After decades of the welfare state, when cutbacks were relatively limited and came with the promise that things would soon return to normal, we are now entering a period in which a kind of economic state of emergency is becoming permanent: turning into a constant, [...]
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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