Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek thinks the U.S. political machinery is truly broken. He guides a verbal tour through the failure of manufactured consent, the appeal of human baseness, and politics as a real struggle of life and death. Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/slavoj-zizek-on-donald-trump-presidency Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Transcript – […]

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“To Be or Not to Be” A debate on the comedy of love and its role as a substitute for religion , social putties and explosives , based on narrative patterns and form- busting film art – the ‘ ‘ Lubitsch ‘s Touch ” to Neokonservativem narration in ” Shame ” ( Steve McQueen , […]

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The revolutionary chants on the streets of Egypt have resonated around the world, but with a popular uprising without a clear direction and an unpopular leader refusing to concede, Egypt’s future hangs in the balance. Riz Khan (Al Jazeera) asks Zizek on his thoughts about the Tahrir Square protests in Egypt. Aired on February 3rd […]

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Slavoj Žižek – Masterclass 2: Surplus-Value, Surplus-Enjoyment, Surplus-Knowledge Full lecture: http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2016/04/slavoj-zizek-masterclass-2-surplus-value-surplus-enjoyment-surplus-knowledge/

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Google is just a privatized NSA; the powerful are continuously trying to control the weak. Slavoj Žižek may have some misgivings about our brave new world, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to buckle beneath the weight of unnecessary fears. Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/slavoj-zizek-on-the-future-battleground Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink […]

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Je begunska kriza humanitarno ali varnostno vprašanje? Je prebežnike treba vrniti v dežele, iz katerih so na staro celino prišli, ali si je, nasprotno, treba pospešeno, pa obenem potrpežljivo prizadevati za njihovo integracijo v evropsko družbo? Je protimigrantsko politično stališče zanesljiv simptom bolj ali manj latentnega fašizma ali je le razumljiv odziv ob množičnem prihodu […]

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‘The stepping out of (what we experience as) ideology is the very form of our enslavement to it’ ‘Ideology has nothing to do with “illusion”, with a mistaken, distorted representation of its social content’ ‘The starting point of the critique of ideology has to be full acknowledgment of the fact that it is easily possible […]

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Since the US presidential election, pundits have been struggling to explain Donald Trump’s shock win. Prominent Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek believes the result exposes the failure of American political elites. RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com Follow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/rt Follow us on […]

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Don’t miss Slavoj Žižek’s keynote lecture “LOVE AS A POLITICAL CATEGORY” at the next Subversive Festival, May 16, 2013. More info soon: www.subversivefestival.com

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