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."
The tragedy is that Israel, which resulted from Europe’s guilt over the Holocaust, is becoming a symbol of European oppression and colonisation.
The situation in Sudan exposes a global economic logic that has remained obfuscated in other cases.
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.
The tragedy is that Israel, which resulted from Europe’s guilt over the Holocaust, is becoming a symbol of European oppression and colonisation.
The situation in Sudan exposes a global economic logic that has remained obfuscated in other cases.
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.