If we want to survive on this planet, we need to abandon the cause of the nation state
If we really care for the fate of the people who comprise our nation, our motto should be: America last, China last, Russia last.
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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher, author, cultural theorist and intellectual. He currently holds academic positions at the University of London, New York University and University of Ljubljana. He has authored or co-authored over 50 books on subjects from politics to philosophy.
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Slavoj Žižek: We need to talk about Turkey
The so-called “war on terror” has become a clash within each civilisation, in which every side pretends to fight…
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Slavoj Žižek: Thanks to the EU’s villainy, Greece is now under financial occupation
A response to some of my critics.
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Slavoj Žižek on Greece: This is a chance for Europe to awaken
The Greeks are correct: Brussels' denial that this is an ideological question is ideology at its purest – and symptomatic of…
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Slavoj Žižek: Why Heidegger should not be criminalised
The German philosopher's Black Notebooks suggest he was anti-Semitic, but, says Slavoj Žižek, instead of his banning the work we should confront how a…
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Slavoj Žižek: A modest rejoinder
“Although I am far from a well-meaning liberal, I simply cannot recognise myself in the lunatic-destructive figure described by…
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Slavoj Žižek on the Charlie Hebdo massacre: Are the worst really full of passionate intensity?
How fragile the belief of an Islamist must be if he feels threatened by a stupid caricature in a…
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Slavoj Žižek: Only a radicalised left can save Europe
Austerity is not “too radical”, as some leftist critics claim, but, on the contrary, too superficial, an act of…
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Slavoj Žižek: what is an authentic political event?
Julian Assange and his collaborators enacted a true and authentic political event. But what do we mean by that,…
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