Slavoj Zizek – Masterclass – day 4 – Notes Towards a Definition of Communist Culture – Populism and Democracy

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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.

from 18 June 2009:

Populism and Democracy