Slavoj Žižek

Known for ActingBorn 1949-03-21 (age 77)Ljubljana, Slovenia

A Slovenian continental philosopher and critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis. Žižek is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a professor at the European Graduate School. He has been a visiting professor at, among others, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, London Consortium, Princeton, New York University, The New School, the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Irvine and the University of Michigan. He is currently the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana. Žižek uses examples from popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and uses Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian philosophy and Marxist economic criticism to interpret and speak extensively on immediately current social phenomena.Read more

Movies & web series

Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism

Houston, We Have a Problem!

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Laibach ‎– A Film from Slovenia

Catastroika

Žižek!

Predictions of Fire

Risk

Balkan Spirit

Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual

Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution

Examined Life

Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself

Marx Reloaded

Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin

Newsnight

Bliss

Antigone, How Dare We!

The Possibility of Hope

Great Minds

Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait

Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

Q&A

Professor Slavoj Žižek on the Problem with Online Dating

Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism

Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek

Deep Thought

Alice, Through the Looking

An Apology for Modernity

Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography

Turn On

The New Man

The Swap

Hyperstition

There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People

The Title Was Shot

Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy

Parola (su una data)

The Old and the New

Bravo: Laibach in Film