21 12, 2009

Everyone’s gone green

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Posted by James Burgess - 24 November 2009 11:34 :: here Slavoj Žižek on the dangers of ecological utopianism Last night Slavoj Žižek, the Slovenian philosopher and subject of a New Statesman profile last month, delivered a lecture at the Institute of Contemporary Arts on ecology. Not one to shy away from theorising on any subject, Žižek tackled the environment and the ideology surrounding the contemporary debate on the politics of climate change with characteristic panache. Speaking with almost nervous energy, he covered areas as diverse as animal documentaries, psychoanalysis under Hitler, the latest Bond movie and Hegel's theory of nature. Žižek warned of the dangers of "naturalising" nature, positing the natural world as some utopia to which we can return in balanced harmony. Nature, he says, is itself is not a balanced system, insofar as it is a set of contingent systems adapting to survive amidst various catastrophes and [...]

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20 04, 2009

the symptom 10 – spring 2009

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Spring 2009 - “Universalism versus globalization. This at least will be our US chapter - to be read as United Symptoms,” Jacques-Alain Miller http://www.lacan.com/thesymptom/ Contents: Jacques-Alain Miller - Another Lacan Jacques-Alain Miller - Action of the Structure Jean-Luc Nancy - Interview with Jacques Derrida Alain Badiou - On a Finally Objectless Subject Shariar Vaghfipour - A Monster Found Everywhere Bruce Fink - The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Eric Laurent - Psychoanalysis and Science Slavoj Zizek - My Own Private Austria Jamieson Webster - Drawing the Impossible Dylan Evans - Science and Truth Thomas Svolos - Ordinary Psychosis Charles Sheperdson - A Pound of Flesh Pierre-Gilles Guéguen - The Short Session Maire Jaanus - Inhibition, Heautoscopy, Movement Richard Klein - Lacan and Gödel Raphael Rubinstein - Three Poems Maria Cristina Aguirre - The Refusal of the Language of the Other Kirsten Hyldgaard - Sex as Fantasy and Sex as Symptom Bernard [...]

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10 12, 2008

Critchley’s Violent Thoughts About Slavoj Zizek

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"Slavoj Zizek has been telling lies about me.", Simon Critchley This is the latest article regarding the intellectual polemics between Simon Critchley and Slavoj Zizek. Read it here:: [Naked Punch 11] More about this debate can be found in the following: 1. Critchley: Infinitely Demanding. Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance, Verso, London & New York. 2. Zizek: Resistance Is Surrender in the London Review of Books 3. T.J. Clark's Response in the London Review of Books & David Graeber's Response in the London Review of Books 4. Zizek's Response in the London Review of Books 5. Zizek's extended critique in Harper's (February 2008) 6. Critchley's response in Harper's (May 2008) 7. Zizek's In Defense of Lost Causes (Verso, London and New York, 2008), pp.337-350. 8. Before the Law  

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6 12, 2008

Examined Life

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Examined Life takes philosophy out of the darkened corners of academia and into the hustle and bustle of the everyday, a visual reminder that great ideas are born through profound engagement with the world around us. It is directed by Astra Taylor, whose feature documentary portrait of world famous philosopher Slavoj Zizek, Zizek!, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2005. Examined Life interweaves fascinating “walks” with philosophers through places that hold special resonance for them and their ideas -- crowded city streets, deser ted alleyways, Central Park and even a garbage dump. The film is co-produced by Sphinx Productions, whose award-winning theatrical documentaries include Imagine the Sound (Best Documentary, Chicago Film Festival), Comic Book Confidential and Grass (both Genie Award winners). Featuring the “rock star” philosophers of our time, including Cornel West, Peter Singer, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Avital Ronell, Michael Hardt, Anthony Appiah and Martha Nussbaum. [quicktime]http://www.sphinxproductions.com/media/examinedlife/examinedlife_trailer.mov[/quicktime] [...]

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19 11, 2008

Lacanian Ink 32 – FALL 2008

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Josefina Ayerza To resume again… http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII1.html Jacques-Alain Miller A Reading of the Seminar From an Other to the other IV http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII2.html Jacques-Alain Miller The Other Side of Lacan http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII3.html Alain Badiou The Son’s Aleatory Identity in Today’s World http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII4.html Lilia Mahjoub The Image in the Fantasy http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII5.html Massimo Recalcati Madness and Structure in Jacques Lacan http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII6.html Jean-Luc Nancy Strange Foreign Bodies http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII7.html Slavoj Zizek Why Lacan Is Not a Heideggerian http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII8.html Josefina Ayerza Cecily Brown, Doug Aitken http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII9.html

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1 10, 2008

time to withdraw and think.

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In New York on the last day of an American tour, absorbing the demise of Yankee Stadium and maybe of Wall Street as we thought we knew it, Zizek’s talk is a blast-furnace but not a blur. The theme through all Zizek’s gags is that the financial meltdown marks a seriously dangerous moment — dangerous not least because, as in the interpretation of 9.11, the right wing is ready to impose a narrative. And the left wing is caught without a narrative or a theory. “Today is the time for theory,” he says. “Time to withdraw and think.” speech Here is the original post.

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18 09, 2008

Bernard-Henri Lévy & Slavoj Žižek: Violence & the Left in Dark Times

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Bernard-Henri Lévy, France's "rock-star philosopher," and Slavoj Žižek, the Slovanian "Elvis of cultural theory," will scrutinize the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those of the future, as they argue for a new political and moral vision for our times and investigate the limits of tolerance. Does the advent of capitalism cause more violence than it prevents? Is there violence in the simple idea of the neighbor? asks Zizek in Violence: Six Sideways Reflections. Are human rights Western or Universal? How is it that progressives themselves-those who in the past d efended individual rights and fought fascism-have now become the breeding ground for new kinds of dangerous attitudes? asks Lévy in Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against New Barbarism. speech Live from the NYPL is here.

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18 07, 2008

Zizek: Irish No !

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Σε συνέχεια του άρθρου του Habermas [>>] [>>] περι του Ευρωπαικού "όχι" των Ιρλανδών στο δημοψήφισμα για την επικύρωση του Συμφώνου της Λισσαβόνας ακολουθεί η θέση του Slavoj Zizek. Original Article English translation Greek translation: thrymmata.blogspot.com Update 18/7: Zizek: Οι Ευρωπαίοι θέλουν περισσότερη Ευρώπη " Πριν περίπου δέκα μέρες, στις 8 Ιουλίου 2008, η ισπανική εφημερίδα El País φιλοξένησε το παρακάτω άρθρο του Slavoj Zizek, στο οποίο σχολιάζεται ο τρόπος που η ελίτ της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης αντιμετώπισε το Ιρλανδικό Όχι στο δημοψήφισμα για την επικύρωση του Συμφώνου της Λισσαβόνας. Το πρόβλημα, λέει ο Zizek, δεν είναι μόνο η υπεροψία της Ευρωπαϊκής γραφειοκρατίας απέναντι στην βούληση της πλειοψηφίας ενός λαού, αλλά και κάτι το χειρότερο: η αδυναμία του στάτους κβο της ΕΕ να συλλάβει τις ανησυχίες των Ευρωπαίων πολιτών για την λειτουργία της δημοκρατίας και για τους αντιδημοκρατικούς σχεδιασμούς της εξουσίας των εμπειρογνωμόνων, κάτι που, σε τελευταία ανάλυση, μεταφράζεται στους διαφορετικούς [...]

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