Zizek’s chapter on the Arab Spring in The Year of Dreaming Dangerously elicits thoughts on why revolutions get derailed and what if anything can be done about it. … More Rebellion and Beyond (Dreaming Dangerously 6)
Zizek’s chapter on the Arab Spring in The Year of Dreaming Dangerously elicits thoughts on why revolutions get derailed and what if anything can be done about it. … More Rebellion and Beyond: Dreaming Dangerously 6 (audio)
I return to an interpretation of Zizek, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, this time chapter 5: “Welcome to the Desert of Post-Ideology.” Zizek, through Lacan, distinguishes the controlled pleasures of capitalistic rationalism from the excessive enjoyment of the unsafe smoker and pointless rioter, and then evaluates what things like the UK riots of 2011 mean for advanced capitalism. … More Unsafe and Alive in Zizek’s Post-Ideology (Dreaming Dangerously 5, audio)
I return to an interpretation of Zizek, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, this time chapter 5: “Welcome to the Desert of Post-Ideology.” Zizek, through Lacan, distinguishes the controlled pleasures of capitalistic rationalism with the excessive enjoyment of the unsafe smoker and pointless rioter, and then evaluates what things like the UK riots of 2011 mean for advanced capitalism. … More Unsafe and Alive in Zizek’s Post-Ideology (Dreaming Dangerously 5)
Chapter 8 of Zizek’s The Year of Dreaming Dangerously deals with the HBO series The Wire and how the show succeeds in depicting how impersonal forces work to keep individuals from changing things but ultimately fails to envision an alternative. Zizek uses his analysis of the show to argue that in order to make radical … More Zizek on “The Wire”: The Year of Dreaming Dangerously (4)
A brief analysis of “The Return of the Evil Ethnic Thing,” a chapter in The Year of Dreaming Dangerously. We follow Marxist philosopher Slavoj Zizek as he analyzes the surge in right wing populism and tries to distinguish the source from the smoke-screens of ethnic and gender animosities. Along the way, we get a glimpse … More Zizek on Right Wing Populism: The Year of Dreaming Dangerously 3
Zizek gets into his economic and political theory and shows in which ways he agrees with and diverges from Marx. He discusses how capitalism has changed since Marx’s time and in doing so develops his own take on where it is headed. I attempt to translate his language into something I, and hopefully others, can … More Slavoj Zizek on the Culture War: The Year of Dreaming Dangerously 2
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