Complete Zizek bibliography

Books and co-authored books 2017. Slavoj Žižek. Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism. Allen Lane. In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world – changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek turns to look at the brave… Continue reading Complete Zizek bibliography

The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around! (Introduction)

The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around!

The first, automatic reaction of today’s enlightened liberal reader to The Communist Manifesto is: Is the text not simply wrong on many empirical accounts, with regard to the picture it gives of the social situation, as well as with regard to the revolutionary perspective it sustains and propagates? Was there ever a political manifesto that was more clearly… Continue reading The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around! (Introduction)

The Idea of Communism (Introduction)

The Idea of Communism (Introduction)

The long night of the left is drawing to a close. The defeat, denunciations and despair of the 1980s and 1990s, the triumphalist ‘end of history’, the unipolar world of American hegemony — all are fast becoming old news. In Europe, in the year 2000, Jürgen Habermas and Ulrich Beck enthused about the European Union… Continue reading The Idea of Communism (Introduction)

The Sublime Object of Ideology (Preface)

The Sublime Object of Ideology

The Idea’s Constipation? When a discipline is in crisis, attempts are made to change or supplement its theses within the terms of its basic framework – a procedure one might call ‘Ptolemization’ (since when data poured in which clashed with Ptolemy’s earth-centred astronomy, his partisans introduced additional complications to account for the anomalies). But the… Continue reading The Sublime Object of Ideology (Preface)

The Universal Exception (Preface)

The Universal Exception

The big Other between violence and civility Slavoj Zizek   The ‘universal exception’, according to Lacan, is the fundamental feature of the symbolic order (the ‘big Other’) as the order of universality: each universality is grounded in its constitutive exception. This feature is to be supplemented with its no less paradoxical obverse, the so-called ‘not-All… Continue reading The Universal Exception (Preface)

Zizek’s jokes in The Universal Exception

The Universal Exception

Recall the old joke about a man suspected of smuggling: every day for twenty years a man pushed a wheelbarrow full of sand across the border-crossing. The customs inspector would dig through the sand but never discovered any illegal goods. He nevertheless remained convinced that he was dealing with a smuggler. On the last day… Continue reading Zizek’s jokes in The Universal Exception

Zizek’s anecdotes in The Universal Exception

The Universal Exception

While fully justified at its own level, the notion of censorship at work in this criticism, with its Foucauldian background of Power, which, in the very act of censorship and other forms of exclusion, generates the excess it endeavours to contain and dominate, nonetheless seems to fall short at a crucial point: what it misses… Continue reading Zizek’s anecdotes in The Universal Exception

An impotent passage à I’acte

The Universal Exception

Following 11 September, rightist commentators like George Will immediately proclaimed the end of America’s ‘holiday from history’ – the impact of reality shattering the isolated tower of liberal tolerance and the cultural studies focus on textuality. Now, we are forced to strike back, to deal with real enemies in the real world … But whom… Continue reading An impotent passage à I’acte

Zizek’s jokes in From Myth to Symptom

The Universal Exception

There is a well-known Israeli joke about Clinton visiting Bibi Netanyahu. When, in Bibi’s office, Clinton saw a mysterious blue phone, he asked Bibi what this phone was. Bibi answered that it allowed him to dial Him up there in the sky. Upon his return to the States, the envious Clinton demanded of his secret service to provide him such… Continue reading Zizek’s jokes in From Myth to Symptom

From Myth to Symptom (Introduction)

The idea for putting together this book came out of the firm belief that a response to the dominant political and academic positions on the subject of the Republic of Kosovo was needed. Far from engaging in a debate with existing texts on the subject matter, this book goes at the heart of the problem:… Continue reading From Myth to Symptom (Introduction)