Slavoj Zizek
Articles by Slavoj Zizek
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Film
Sing of the new invasion
- 12 December 2011
- 14 comments
Ralph Fiennes’s upcoming film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus shows its versatility – and proves it is a better play than Hamlet.
Middle East
Israel’s best hope lies in a single state
- 04 March 2011
- 274 comments
In East Jerusalem, vigilantes prowl, hunting for Jewish girls who consort with Arab men. Slavoj Žižek argues that what Israel needs is not segregation, but unity and free contact between its peoples.
Environment
Joe Public v the volcano
- 29 April 2010
- 8 comments
We are living in an age when we are both able to change nature and more at its mercy than ever –– as the Icelandic volcano has proved.
Religion
Soul of the party
- 01 April 2010
- 5 comments
St Paul had it right – using religion to rock the foundations of authority.
Film
Return of the natives
- 04 March 2010
- 24 comments
Beneath the idealism and political correctness of Avatar, in the spotlight at the Oscars on Sunday, lie brutal racist undertones.
Books
Democracy versus the people
- 14 August 2008
- 20 comments
A new account of Haiti's recent history shows how the genuinely radical politics of Lavalas and its leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, proved too threatening to the country's wealthy elite and their foreign backers.
