Slavoj Žižek
Dr Slavoj Žižek, professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School, is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London and the author of "Heaven in Disorder."
Dr Slavoj Žižek, professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School, is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London and the author of "Heaven in Disorder."
We all know that we are part of nature and fully dependent on it for our survival, yet this recognition does not translate into action.
I fought for years with and for Julian Assange. In what sense are we who breathe the fresh air outside prisons still free?
If enough people despair of emancipatory politics and accept the withdrawal into buffoonery, the political space for neo-fascism widens.
Today’s anti-war protests are but a desperate plea simply to stop the killing of Palestinians in Gaza.
If our world is becoming full of poets and executioners, we need more judges and thinkers to counter the new tendency.
The choice is not one hardline faction or the other; it is between fundamentalists and all those who still believe in the possibility of peaceful co-existence.
If we believe that things will fall into place by just letting them take their course, we will end up with multiple catastrophes.
Whenever a country’s social contract unravels, conditions become ripe for rumours and absurdities to circulate.
We all know that we are part of nature and fully dependent on it for our survival, yet this recognition does not translate into action.
I fought for years with and for Julian Assange. In what sense are we who breathe the fresh air outside prisons still free?
If enough people despair of emancipatory politics and accept the withdrawal into buffoonery, the political space for neo-fascism widens.
Today’s anti-war protests are but a desperate plea simply to stop the killing of Palestinians in Gaza.
If our world is becoming full of poets and executioners, we need more judges and thinkers to counter the new tendency.
The choice is not one hardline faction or the other; it is between fundamentalists and all those who still believe in the possibility of peaceful co-existence.
If we believe that things will fall into place by just letting them take their course, we will end up with multiple catastrophes.
Whenever a country’s social contract unravels, conditions become ripe for rumours and absurdities to circulate.
We need people like Assange to force such reckonings – to make us see “those in the darkness.”
A massive expansion of AI capabilities is a serious threat to those in power – including those who develop, own, and control AI. It points to nothing less than the end of capitalism as we know it.