Ideology, the unconscious and dialectics
A conversation/interview (with lots of links and pics) with Jennifer Izaakson, covering inter alia Althusser, Badiou, Heidegger, Deleuze, Butler, Hallward, Fichte, Lacan, Žižek.
Praxis makes perfect
March 2006 issue of Socialist Review review of Alex Callinicos’s The Resources Of Critique, Slavoj Zizek’s The Parallax View, and Alain Badiou’s two major works, Being and Event and Logics of Worlds.
Down with the ten capitalist ministers
[originally published on Lenin’s Tomb] A few critical words on Slavoj Zizek’s paper at the Politics of Truth conference held in London at the end of last month. You can listen … Continue reading
Zizek on counterfactuals
[originally published on bat.blogspot.com and Lenin’s Tomb] Exhibit A: witless reactionaries desperately trying to justify the summary execution of an innocent man in London last month by armed plain clothes … Continue reading
Zizek on Bush’s reëlection
[originally published on bat.blogspot.com] Slavoj Zizek’s response to George W Bush’s reëlection – The Liberal Waterloo – has been published by In These Times, the Chicago-based radical magazine. It’s a … Continue reading