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Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek, professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School, is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London and the author, most recently, of Heaven in Disorder.

Opinion

/ 9 January 2023

Right-wing leaders in US and Russia openly embrace criminality

Julian Assange is our Antigone. He is awaiting extradition to the US for spying for the people, making public a small part of the obscene dark side of US policy

By Slavoj Žižek

Opinion

/ 29 November 2022

Wokeism and cancel culture leave ethics on the rocks

Nomically, the left advocates pluralism and promotes difference, but only within a network of fixed, essentialized identities, and so permissiveness becomes prohibition.

By Slavoj Žižek

Opinion

/ 31 October 2022

Ukraine: The orgy at the end of the world

Although the truly uncivilised sex acts are those perpertrated by Russian soldiers and leaders, the Ukrainians might have lost a fragment of moral high ground

By Slavoj Žižek

Opinion

/ 20 October 2022

Don’t turn Ukraine into a ‘hunting safari’

Full support for Ukraine along with structural reforms to accelerate the transition away from oil and gas will challenge the West’s established way of life, but is necessary

By Slavoj Žižek

Opinion

/ 9 October 2022

Women, life, freedom and the left

Four recent news stories show how the politics of sex and gender can either challenge or reinforce existing power structures

By Slavoj Žižek