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Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities

June 2022

  • FILE - Debris hangs from a residential building heavily damaged in a Russian bombing in Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, May 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

    Pacifism is the wrong response to the war in Ukraine

    Slavoj Žižek
    The least we owe Ukraine is full support, and to do this we need a stronger Nato

May 2022

  • ‘Russia claimed it may be “forced to take retaliatory steps” if Finland joins Nato. No, it will not be “forced,” in the same way that Russia was not “forced” to attack Ukraine.’

    We must stop letting Russia define the terms of the Ukraine crisis

    Slavoj Žižek
    A question like ‘Did US intelligence-sharing with Ukraine cross a line?’ forgets the fact that it was Russia that crossed the line – by invading Ukraine

June 2016

  • Illustration by Mick Marston.

    Dear Britain: Elena Ferrante, Slavoj Žižek and other European writers on Brexit

    Ahead of the European referendum, we asked leading authors and thinkers from EU countries to write letters to Britain. Do they want us to stay, or are they ready to say goodbye?

April 2015

  • Tomas flunks his test … Force Majeure. Photograph: Allstar/Magnolia PicturesJ

    I watch therefore I am: seven movies that teach us key philosophy lessons

    The dilemma in chilling new drama Force Majeure raises philosophical quandaries, but it’s not the first film to do so. Memento, Ida and It’s A Wonderful Life all address the Big Questions

December 2014

  • Chelsea Manning birthday letters.

    Dear Chelsea Manning: birthday messages from Edward Snowden, Terry Gilliam and more

  • Slavoj Zizek

    In my opinion
    Slavoj Žižek: What is freedom today? – video

September 2014

  • A woman walks past a mosque in Turkey

    Rotherham child sex abuse: it is our duty to ask difficult questions

    Slavoj Žižek
    Slavoj Žižek: Anyone who wants to fight for emancipation should not be afraid to examine religion and culture

July 2014

  • A stock market graph going down

    How capital captured politics

    Slavoj Žižek
    Slavoj Žižek: WikiLeaks has shown us that western democracies are now ruled by market forces that debase the very notion of freedom

June 2014

  • REUTERS NEWS PICTURES - IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2012

    How WikiLeaks opened our eyes to the illusion of freedom

    Slavoj Žižek
  • A protester hammers at a toppled statue of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin during a pro-European protest in December 2013.

    New East network
    Why both the left and right have got it wrong on Ukraine – Žižek

May 2014

  • Prix Pictet Hong Hao My Things No 1

    Fat-free chocolate and absolutely no smoking: why our guilt about consumption is all-consuming

  • US President Barack Obama meets with Russian President Putin in Los Cabos

    Who can control the post-superpower capitalist world order?

    Slavoj Žižek

February 2014

  • Presidency and Government buildings on fire during protest in Sarajevo

    Anger in Bosnia, but this time the people can read their leaders' ethnic lies

    Slavoj Žižek
    Slavoj Žižek: Protesters were carrying three flags side by side – Bosnian, Serb and Croat, brought together by a radical demand for justice

December 2013

  • Mandela Memorial Interpreter Claims Schizophrenia

    The 'fake' Mandela memorial interpreter said it all

    Slavoj Žižek
  • South African President Nelson Mandela

    If Nelson Mandela really had won, he wouldn't be seen as a universal hero

    Slavoj Žižek

November 2013

  • Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot writing to Slavoj Žižek

    Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot's prison letters to Slavoj Žižek

    Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is currently in a prison hospital in Siberia; here she and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek meet in an extraordinary exchange of letters

October 2013

  • Tea Party Holds US Capitol Rally To Protest Obamacare In Washington D.C.

    Who is responsible for the US shutdown? The same idiots responsible for the 2008 meltdown

    Slavoj Žižek
  • Robert Redfordand Jackie Evancho in a scene from The Company You Keep

    Film blog
    Redefining family values on film

September 2013

  • Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Assad in Qara near Damascus

    Syria is a pseudo-struggle

    Slavoj Žižek

  • Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange: our new heroes

    Slavoj Žižek
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