London Critical Theory School – Friday Debate I
Event Date: 1 July 2011 
Room B34 Birkbeck Main Building
Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX
London Critical Theory School – Friday Debate I
Discussion and debate with: Drucilla Cornell, Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Zizek
Chair: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
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Slavoj Žižek – Screening Thought: The Media’s Philosophical Problem
Event date: 4 May 2011
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
Slavoj Žižek – Screening Thought: The Media’s Philosophical Problem
Continental philospher Slavoj Žižek and Paul A. Taylor (author of Žižek and The Media) explore the difficulty of conveying philosophical ideas within today’s media.
Increasingly, intelligence is only tolerated in pre-approved and reassuringly non-challenging forms – deprecatory humour (Stephen Fry), decaffeinated reasoning (Alain de Botton), or suspiciously grand narratives (Simon Schama). Žižek himself is constantly pigeonholed by such media clichés as ‘the Elvis of cultural theory’ and ‘the Marx Brother’. This event sets out to question ‘what can be done?’ by serious thought in a culture of sound bites. Is the best that media philosophers can hope for to ‘Try again, fail again, fail better’?
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Slavoj Zizek – Masterclass – The Limits of Hegel
Event Date: 23, 25 & 26 March 2011
The Limits of Hegel
Slavoj Zizek – Masterclass
While the global political and social situation is getting more and more explosive, emancipatory struggles are more and more hampered by ideological prejudices. This is why some ruthless clarifications are necessary.
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Slavoj Zizek – Masterclass – Lacan and Sexual Difference
Event Date: 23, 25& 26 March 2011
Lacan and Sexual Difference
Slavoj Zizek – Masterclass
While the global political and social situation is getting more and more explosive, emancipatory struggles are more and more hampered by ideological prejudices. This is why some ruthless clarifications are necessary.
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Slavoj Zizek – Masterclass – The Idea of Communism and its Actuality
Event Date: 23, 25 & 26 March 2011
Masterclass – The Idea of Communism and its Actuality
Slavoj Zizek
While the global political and social situation is getting more and more explosive, emancipatory struggles are more and more hampered by ideological prejudices. This is why some ruthless clarifications are necessary.
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introduction by Costas Douzinas .
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Slavoj Zizek – Masterclass – day 5 – Notes Towards a Definition of Communist Culture – Environment, Identity and Multiculturalism
The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
Event Date: Friday 19 June 2009
The master class analyses phenomena of modern thought and culture with the intention to discern elements of possible Communist culture. It moves at two levels: first, it interprets some cultural phenomena (from today’s architecture to classic literary works like Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Heloise) as failures to imagine or enact a Communist culture; second, it explores attempts at imagining how a Communist culture could look, from Wagner’s Ring to Kafka’s and Beckett’s short stories and contemporary science fiction novels.
from 19 June 2009:
Environment, Identity and Multiculturalism
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PART I Monday 15 June 2009: Utopias
PART II Tuesday 16 June 2009: Architecture
PART III Wednesday 17 June 2009: Wagner
PART IV Thursday 18 June 2009:Populism and Democracy
Slavoj Zizek – Masterclass – day 4 – Notes Towards a Definition of Communist Culture – Populism and Democracy
The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
Event Date: Thursday 18 June 2009
The master class analyses phenomena of modern thought and culture with the intention to discern elements of possible Communist culture. It moves at two levels: first, it interprets some cultural phenomena (from today’s architecture to classic literary works like Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Heloise) as failures to imagine or enact a Communist culture; second, it explores attempts at imagining how a Communist culture could look, from Wagner’s Ring to Kafka’s and Beckett’s short stories and contemporary science fiction novels.
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Populism and Democracy
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PART I Monday 15 June 2009: Utopias
PART II Tuesday 16 June 2009: Architecture
PART III Wednesday 17 June 2009: Wagner
PART V Friday 19 June 2009: Multiculturalism
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