The Notes Taken

Nothing like the recent election in the United States to give me a reason to discuss Slavoj Zizek and Bernard-Henri Levy in the same post. ...

...is the first semester during which I have no institutional affiliation as either a student or professor since I started my college studie...

After Joshua wrote a post on Anders Breivik, we started receiving a boost in traffic in google searches for "zizek breivik." Toda...

I hate to overly saturate my blogs with Žižek, but I swear he is always around the places I want to refer. If we take the Socratic question,...

My first publication, in 2005, was a book review of Zizek's Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle (Verso, 2004), entitled "The Step Outside: T...

Today in Modesto California a small group of us demonstrated in solidarity with Egyptians (and by further extension the Arab world). The res...

Both Peter Hallward and Slavoj Zizek have published pieces ( here and here ) on the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt in the "Comment is F...

Recently Slavoj Zizek was interviewed on Democracy Now to talk about the rise of anti-immigrant fervor in Europe and his newly published boo...

The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia (1917-1920) and the initial success of the Spanish anarchists in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) are of...

Hot on the heels of their animated David Harvey talk on capitalism, the RSA has animated a recent talk by Slavoj Zizek. They do quite a job ...

It is about time that the great cultural critic Slavoj Zizek make an analysis of his own rising popularity. It seems his role as a popular t...

Let's face it: the more prominent contemporary continental philosophers have not attempted  too many in-depth analyses of the functions ...

(Verso, 2010) In light of the ongoing financial crisis and the oil hemmorhage in the gulf, I recently conversed with a close friend of min...

Philosophy in the Present ( Polity, 2009 ) is a recent translation of talks given by Badiou and Zizek in Vienna in 2004 and published in Ge...

I just want to add to our two previous posts ( here and here ), one more statement about disaster capitalism and imperialism, really some m...

Slavoj Zizek's new book (Verso, 2009) examines the current world financial crisis and attempts to delineate a coherent Leftist response...

Just having acquired First as Tragedy , Then as Farce , I found, via Verso UK's blog , an interview with Slavoj Zizek . I've found s...