The Czech-born writer Milan Kundera once wrote an entire book about an atmosphere where one joke made in bad taste can ruin your life. It’s no joke now, as denouncing colleagues becomes normal in the US.
Tag: ideology
Ideology Is the Original Augmented Reality
How we fill gaps in our everyday experiences. Released in July 2016, Pokémon Go is a location-based, augmented-reality game for mobile devices, typically played on mobile phones; players use the device’s GPS and camera to capture, battle, and train virtual creatures (“Pokémon”) who appear on the screen as if they were in the same real-world… Continue reading Ideology Is the Original Augmented Reality
On Liberal Blackmail: Refusing the False Choice between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron
The title of a recent opinion piece which appeared in The Guardian – the mouthpiece of the anti-Assange,-pro-Hillary liberal left – says it all: “Le Pen is a far-right Holocaust revisionist. Macron isn’t. Hard choice?” Predictably, the text proper begins with: “Is being an investment banker analogous with being a Holocaust revisionist? Is neoliberalism on… Continue reading On Liberal Blackmail: Refusing the False Choice between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron
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
What our fear of refugees says about Europe
Jacques Lacan claimed that, even if a jealous husband’s claim about his wife – that she sleeps around with other men – is true, his jealousy is still pathological. Why? The true question is “not is his jealousy well-grounded?”, but “why does he need jealousy to maintain his self-identity?”. Along the same lines, one could say… Continue reading What our fear of refugees says about Europe
The spectre of Putogan
The well-coordinated official Turkish campaign against me deserves a short conclusive comment. Some on the Turkish side twisted the New Statesman’s apology for the reference to a fake interview into an apology for (i.e., the revocation of) all the main claims of my text. However, my text published in the NS was not “based” on… Continue reading The spectre of Putogan
The need to sensor our dreams
Critique of ideology should not begin with the critique of reality, but with the critique of our dreams. As Herbert Marcuse put it back in the 1960s, freedom (from ideological constraints, from the predominant mode of dreaming) is the condition of liberation. If we only change reality in order to realize our dreams, and do… Continue reading The need to sensor our dreams
Who is responsible for the US shutdown? The same idiots responsible for the 2008 meltdown
In April 2009 I was resting in a hotel room in Syracuse, hopping between two channels: a PBS documentary on Pete Seeger, the great American country singer of the left; and a Fox News report on the anti-tax Tea Party, with a country singer performing a populist song about how Washington is taxing hard-working ordinary… Continue reading Who is responsible for the US shutdown? The same idiots responsible for the 2008 meltdown
Slavoj Žižek: ‘Most of the idiots I know are academics’
Slavoj Žižek is brimming with thought. Each idea sprays out of the controversial Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist in a jet of words. He is like a water balloon, perforated in so many areas that its content gushes out in all directions. The result is that, as an interviewer, trying to give direction to the… Continue reading Slavoj Žižek: ‘Most of the idiots I know are academics’
Some Bewildered Clarifications: A Response to Noam Chomsky by Slavoj Žižek
Since Noam Chomsky’s “Fantasies” (July 21, 2013) present themselves as a reaction to my reply to his interview with a critical dismissal of my work, a brief clarification is needed. What Chomsky refers to as my “reply” is a non-authorized and not accurate transcription of my answer to a question from the public during a… Continue reading Some Bewildered Clarifications: A Response to Noam Chomsky by Slavoj Žižek