In a characteristically unfiltered and provocative interview with El País, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek opens the floodgates on his personal misanthropy, political despair, and philosophical radicalism, delivering a stream of consciousness that
This essay is taken from Slavoj Žižek’s latest book Against Progress, part of the new Žižek’s Essays series, which published on October 31st by Bloomsbury. Images of the end of the world, imagined and otherwise, pervade our media. Alenka Zupančič noted ironically that one
Deepthi Kumara Gunaratne is a postmodern thinker, organic disruptor, and political and social analyst whose forthright and unique views on politics and the arts
So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts Of accidental judgments Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause And, in
From Judith Butler’s standing-room-only appearance in Madrid to the enduring influence of figures such as Slavoj Žižek, Byung-Chul Han, Thomas Piketty and Yuval Noah Harari, a growing group of contemporary thinkers has
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Editor’s Note: The following interview was originally published in The Sunday Island, a Colombo-based weekly newspaper. What does it mean to claim that psychoanalysis is inherently feminist? How can the unconscious, that
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In a characteristically unfiltered and provocative interview with El País, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek opens the floodgates on his personal misanthropy, political despair, and philosophical radicalism, delivering a stream of consciousness that
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What makes us think? This question is about the beginning of philosophy. For the early Greek philosophers like Parmenides and Plato, thinking and philosophizing begin in wonder, the awareness of an invisible
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My favored plot of crime novels concerns a person (usually a woman) who is in mortal danger. Unknown forces try to kill her because she knows something she shouldn’t have known; this
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Deepthi Kumara Gunaratne is a postmodern thinker, organic disruptor, and political and social analyst whose forthright and unique views on politics and the arts have gained significant traction in Sri Lanka. As
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This essay is taken from Slavoj Žižek’s latest book Against Progress, part of the new Žižek’s Essays series, which published on October 31st by Bloomsbury. Images of the end of the world, imagined and otherwise, pervade
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So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts Of accidental judgments Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall’n on th’ inventors’
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