For this week's episode the gang discusses Alenka Zupančič’s recent work on freedom-as-a-possibility, repetition, and The End. Jake gets a haircut, Will touches Marx’s chair, it rains in Australia and Pete has a lousy connection.
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This week, we talk Žižek’s concept of the Neighbor. In contrast with Levinas’ ethics of the Other, Žižek understands the neighbour to be the site of a kind of inhuman monstrosity
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A spirit is haunting contemporary thought – the spirit of Hegel...
The book cover for "Reading Hegel" is up on @politybooks. The book will come out at the end of the year
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Today we cover one of the fundamental concepts of Žižek’s project: the parallax. With references to the Coen brothers, and F.F. Coppola, we discuss how to think through the parallax both as a method and an ontology.
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My friend Adam Curtis has made this trail for his imminent new series 'Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World.' The trail is exclusive to this tweet and will exist nowhere else! I love the series and its wild range of stories.
I had the pleasure to talk with @zizekand about Žižek’s political theory, theory vs. practice, Eurocentrism, the situation in Kosova and Kurti's previous and upcoming government, etc.
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Slavoj Žižek writes in Jacobin that we've been given a choice between a return to the old exploitative normality and a corporate Great Reset. We need an alternative, socialist reset that can win justice for all and save the planet from climate apocalypse. jacobinmag.com/2020/12/slavo…