Slavoj Žižek
Nacimiento : 1949-03-21, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Historia
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.
Self
What happens when after the Wonderland, Alice finds herself in the post-Brexit United Kingdom? Philosophy student Alice’s world is turned upside down on the morning after a masquerade party when her soulmate Rabbit whom she found the previous night has disappeared into thin air without leaving a trace after the crazy night, as befits the mysticism of the 21st century.
Himself
Una historia de amor alucinante que sigue a Greg quien, después de divorciarse recientemente y luego ser despedido, conoce a la misteriosa Isabel, una mujer que vive en las calles y está convencida de que el mundo contaminado y roto que los rodea es solo una simulación por computadora. Dudoso al principio, Greg finalmente descubre que puede haber algo de verdad en la salvaje conspiración de Isabel.
Theatre Play
Based on motifs from The Triple Life of Antigone by Slavoj Žižek, this film reflects on today’s planet and political “chaos” by placing the politicians, the decision-makers and the influencers of today in the roles of Žižek’s version of the ancient Greek drama Antigone. But what are the politicians roles? Does the Antigone of today represent populists, anti-migrants and fundamentalists, or those who would oppose them?
Himself
Based on motifs from The Triple Life of Antigone by Slavoj Žižek, this film reflects on today’s planet and political “chaos” by placing the politicians, the decision-makers and the influencers of today in the roles of Žižek’s version of the ancient Greek drama Antigone. But what are the politicians roles? Does the Antigone of today represent populists, anti-migrants and fundamentalists, or those who would oppose them?
Writer
On February, April 19, 2019, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson debated Marxist philosopher Dr. Slavoj Zizek.
Self
On February, April 19, 2019, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson debated Marxist philosopher Dr. Slavoj Zizek.
Himself
A debate between the Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson (a critic of Marxism) and the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek (a communist and Hegelian) on the relationship between Marxism, capitalism, and happiness. Moderated by Stephen J. Blackwood, it was held before an audience of 3,000 at Meridian Hall in Toronto on 19 April 2019.
Self
A debate between Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek, said to be regarding happiness and whether Capitalism or Marxism is better at delivering it.
Himself
An hour long interview with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek made by Russia Today for his 70th birthday. In this documentary Žižek answers questions from the public in regards to politics and ideology, gender and sex, philosophy and psychoanalysis, hardcore pornography and sexual liberation in the West, in his usual style of polemics and comedy.
Self
A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a maker of erotic movies.
Original Concept
A couple arrive home and start getting it together. They both have a little secret. Based on an idea by the philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek (used with permission).
Self
Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle in a documentary portrait of power, betrayal, truth and sacrifice.
Self
A creative documentary about becoming a parent... and how to reconceive yourself. Fiction director Josh Appignanesi turns the camera on himself and his wife as they undergo the ordeal of becoming parents in the era of man-children and assisted reproduction. Faced with fatherhood, Josh spirals comically into an envious career funk. But life-threatening complications emerge- the couple are tested to the brink, confronting shattering losses. It's a portrait of our generation going through a revolution in reproduction- forced to find new ways to think about ourselves as creative beings. We hear from Slavoj Žižek, John Berger, Darian Leader (20,000 Days) and Zadie Smith. Universal yet still taboo, it's a film for everyone who has children, wants them, or still feels like a child themselves.
Self (voice)
The Swap is the third chapter of the PolEc Trilogy, comprising Wandering Marxwards (1998) and The Three Failures (2006). It features the same character as in the previous episodes, but now reduced to a lost, exhausted soul roaming Shanghai's cityscape from the remotest periphery to the financial district. Another narrative, spoken this one, takes us to September 2008, as gigantic bailouts put the financial system on life support instead of letting it collapse, thus seizing our reality and replacing it with a fiction tailored for the situation. These two streams end up meeting on a Shanghai dancefloor, where unresolved contradictions can finally be performed.
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La Guerra Fría, la carrera espacial y la llegada a la luna son hitos que definen una era. Pero son también pasto para las teorías conspiratorias. En este documental, el director Ziga Virc añade nuevo material a esta discusión desde ambos frentes. Este intrigante docuficción explora el mito del acuerdo multimillonario detrás de la compra de Estados Unidos del programa clandestino de Yugoslavia al principio de los años 60.
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A film on time and narrative by Christopher Roth with Armen Avanessian. Hyperstitional thinking hijacks the present-forming daring interventions into conditions of cybernetic governance that foreclose contingency.
Self (archive footage)
From 1977 to 1991 an image of Slovenia as a green, demilitarised and peaceful country of diligent people reigned in Yugoslavia, a country where differences are not only allowed, but also desired. This period ends with a ten-day war, when the identity turns from peacefulness, modesty and diligence into courage and a fighting spirit. The film documents the changes in Slovenia and its inhabitants, which have in recent years brought us to a completely different understanding of national identity, different from the one which was true in Slovenia as well as abroad twenty years ago.
Self - Philosopher
Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning of "Balkan spirit".
Writer
Un viaje al laberíntico corazón de la ideología, que modela y justifica las creencias y prácticas tanto colectivas como personales: con un celo contagioso y un apetito voraz por la cultura popular, el filósofo y psicoanalista esloveno Slavoj Žižek analiza varias de las películas más importantes de la historia del cine para explicar cómo la narrativa cinematográfica contribuye a reforzar la ética y las ideas políticas imperantes.
Self - Host / Philosopher
Un viaje al laberíntico corazón de la ideología, que modela y justifica las creencias y prácticas tanto colectivas como personales: con un celo contagioso y un apetito voraz por la cultura popular, el filósofo y psicoanalista esloveno Slavoj Žižek analiza varias de las películas más importantes de la historia del cine para explicar cómo la narrativa cinematográfica contribuye a reforzar la ética y las ideas políticas imperantes.
Self
Los creadores de Debtocracy, analizan el cambio de manos de los bienes públicos a manos privadas. Viajan alrededor del mundo reuniendo información sobre la privatización y buscan pistas el día siguiente al programa de privatización masiva en Grecia.
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Marx Reloaded is a cultural documentary that examines the relevance of German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx's ideas for understanding the global economic and financial crisis of 2008-09. The crisis triggered the deepest global recession in 70 years and prompted the US government to spend more than 1 trillion dollars in order to rescue its banking system from collapse. Today the full implications of the crisis in Europe and around the world still remain unclear. Nevertheless, should we accept the crisis as an unfortunate side-effect of the free market? Or is there another explanation as to why it happened and its likely effects on our society, our economy and our whole way of life?
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Aren't the deformed images of Marx which we often come across in the Czech Republic, a manifestation of the fact that we have not yet come to terms with the communist regime, asks Michael Hauser, philosophy lecturer from the Charles University in Prague. Filmmakers took his question and transformed it into a film. They followed a protest with their camera, they caught Slovenian philosophy bear Slavoj Zizek in a Prague archway. For those, who might get bored, they used colorful filters. Besides that, they invited a rat to participate, an animal that knows how to listen.
Self
Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it.
Writer
Una hilarante introducción, usando como ejemplo algunas de las mejores películas jamás realizadas, a algunas de las ideas más apasionantes del filósofo y psicoanalista esloveno Slavoj Žižek sobre la subjetividad personal, la fantasía y la realidad, el deseo y la sexualidad.
Self - Host / Philosopher
Una hilarante introducción, usando como ejemplo algunas de las mejores películas jamás realizadas, a algunas de las ideas más apasionantes del filósofo y psicoanalista esloveno Slavoj Žižek sobre la subjetividad personal, la fantasía y la realidad, el deseo y la sexualidad.
Self
ŽIŽEK! trails the thinker as he crisscrosses the globe, racing from New York City lecture halls, through the streets of Buenos Aires, and even stopping at home in Ljubljana, Slovenia. All the while Žižek obsessively reveals the invisible workings of ideology through his unique blend of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxism, and critique of pop culture.
Writer
In this tour de force filmed lecture, Slavoj Žižek lucidly and compellingly reflects on belief - which takes him from Father Christmas to democracy - and on the various forms that belief takes, drawing on Lacanian categories of thought. In a radical dismissal of todays so called post-political era, he mobilizes the paradox of universal truth urging us to dare to enact the impossible. It is a characteristic virtuoso performance, moving promiscuously from subject to subject but keeping the larger argument in view.
Self
In this tour de force filmed lecture, Slavoj Žižek lucidly and compellingly reflects on belief - which takes him from Father Christmas to democracy - and on the various forms that belief takes, drawing on Lacanian categories of thought. In a radical dismissal of todays so called post-political era, he mobilizes the paradox of universal truth urging us to dare to enact the impossible. It is a characteristic virtuoso performance, moving promiscuously from subject to subject but keeping the larger argument in view.
Himself
Este video es una especie de reflexión filosófica acerca de los medios, un tratado sobre el espacio político, cultural y artístico que es condición del actual periodo postsocialista en el territorio de la ex Yugoslavia y sobre sus implicaciones culturales, socio-políticas y estéticas. Los artistas que forman el Grupo Irwin, proceden de Liubliana, Mladen Stilinovic de Zagreb y el artista conocido únicamente por su nombre falso, “Kasimir Malevich” es de Belgrado. Sus proyectos artísticos y su relación con la ideología socialista y postsocialista, codifican de forma específica el territorio de la ex Yugoslavia. El video contiene material documental exclusivo. Incluye también declaraciones de dos filósofos importantes: el esloveno Slavoj Zizek y el austriaco-alemán Peter Weibel, al igual que declaraciones del Grupo Irwin.
Self
A visceral documentary focusing on the Slovenian collective art movement known as NSK ('Neue Slowenische Kunst') and its varied branches: 'Laibach', 'Irwin', and 'Red Pilot'.
Self
Slavoj Zizek, born in 1949 in Ljubljana, psychoanalyst and professor of philosophy, started early on a group of theoreticians who sharpened their thinking of the theses of Jacques Lacan. The Slovenian Lacan School was a spiritual resistance nest in orthodox ex-Yugoslavia, and Slavoj Zizek emerged as a globally operating philosopher-entertainer.
Himself
In the video film shots from the tour are interspersed with acted scenes, video clips and theoretical reflections of Slavoj Žižek and critic Chris Bohn. Together they form a compelling story about Laibach, controversial Slovene music group in the eighties.
