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Slavoj Žižek
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They are trying as directly as possible to sell you experiences, i.e. what you are able to do with the car, not the car as a product itself.
— Interview in The Believer magazine, (July 2004)
Slavoj Žižek
Slovenian philosopher (born 1949)
- Fame67.8
- Momentum0.9
- Academics rank#199
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- Fame67.8
- Momentum0.9
- Academics rank#199
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Born 1949 · age 77
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A Slovenian philosopher who explains Hegel and Lacan through Hitchcock and dirty jokes, building a global following by making continental theory sound like stand-up — and dividing rooms wherever he speaks.
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Born 21 March 1949, Žižek emerged from the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, a Slovenian circle fusing German idealism with Lacanian thought and ideology critique. His 1989 book The Sublime Object of Ideology introduced that tradition to English readers and set the template: dense theory laced with pop culture and deliberate provocation. Over fifty books and hundreds of op-eds followed, written across five languages and delivered in a style equal parts obscene joke and philosophical grenade. He's held posts at New York University, the European Graduate School, and directed the Birkbeck Insti…
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Slavoj Žižek
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I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing — I cannot tell you how much.
— Conversations with Žižek by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004), p. 42
Slavoj Žižek
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I believe in clear-cut positions.
— Conversations with Žižek by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004), p. 45
Slavoj Žižek
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With Lenin it was always a substantial commitment. I always have a certain admiration for people who are aware that somebody has to do the job.
— Conversations with Žižek by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004), p. 50
Slavoj Žižek
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I found there, on the central square (Václavské náměstí), a café that miraculously worked through this emergency.
— Anecdote about the Soviet suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968, quoted in The New Yorker (5 May 2003), p. 39
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