All 39 articles by Slavoj Žižek
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Features
What Europe’s Elites Don’t Know
When the blind are leading the blind, democracy is the victim.
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Occupy Gotham City
What the Dark Night Rises says about violence, morality and people's power
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Smashing the Spinning Plates
How long can the Eurocrats in Brussels keep the dinnerware in motion?
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The Violent Silence of a New Beginning
The Occupy protests are important, but soon the difficult question must be answered: What social organization can replace capitalism?
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Barbarism With A Human Face
The recent expulsion oF illegal Roma ("Gypsies") from France back to Romania sparked protests across Europe from both...
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‘O Earth, Pale Mother!’
To many of us, the fear of flying is concrete: We are haunted by how many parts of...
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Culture
A Soft Focus on War
How Hollywood hides the horrors of war.
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Act Locally
Making the Illegal Legal
Israel’s Kafkaesque bureaucracy colonizes the occupied West Bank one settlement at a time.
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Iran on the Brink
Warning to the Persian cat: Don’t look down!
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Why Cynics Are Wrong
The sublime shock of Obama's victory
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Through the Glasses Darkly
What if the between-the-lines Republican message (don't be afraid, there will be no real change) is the true illusion?
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The Audacity of Rhetoric
In January, when the United States remembered the tragic death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., an...
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The Ambiguous Legacy of ‘68
Forty years ago, what was revolutionized -- the world or capitalism?
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China’s Valley of Tears
Is authoritarian capitalism the future?
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The Disturbing Sounds of the Turkish March
The true problem with "militaristic humanism" resides not in "militaristic," but in "humanism," in the way a military intervention is presented as humanitarian aid
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The Dreams of Others
By tying the drama to a mere personal whim, The Lives of Others fails to capture the true horror of the GDR
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Culture
In You More Than Yourself
The revolutionary potential of the Internet is far from self-evident
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Lets be Realists, Let?s Demand the Impossible!
Why pragmatic politics are doomed to fail in the Middle East
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The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos
In the last decade, Davos and Porto Alegre have emerged as the twin cities of globalization. In Davos,...
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Culture
Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
The fifth season of "24," the phenomenally successful Fox television series, premiered on January 15. Composed of 24 one-hour episodes, the...
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The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape
Reality and fantasy in New Orleans
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Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
In a mad world, the logic of MAD still works
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Thanks, But Well Do It Ourselves
Against enlightened administration
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Revenge of Global Finance
When the final installment of the Star Wars series, Revenge of the Sith, brings us the pivotal moment...
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Culture
The Popes Failures
Pope John Paul II’s reaction to Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ is well known....
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The Not-So-Quiet American
The Iraqi elections appear to authenticate the statement George W. Bush made in his January inauguration speech: “America...
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The Liberal Waterloo
(Or, finally some good news from Washington!)
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Culture
The Free World ... of Slums
Although Timothy Garton Ash is my political opponent, I’ve always admired his wealth of precise observations and...
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Culture
What Rumsfeld Doesnt Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib
Does anyone still remember the unfortunate Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf? As Saddam’s information minister, he heroically would deny...
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What Does Europe Want?
On May 1, eight new countries were welcomed into the European Union—but which “Europe” will they find there?
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Passion: Regular or Decaf?
Those who virulently criticized Mel Gibson’s The Passion even before its release seem unassailable: Are they not...
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What Is To Be Done (With Lenin)?
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died on January 21 1924, 80 years ago—does the embarrassed silence over his name mean that he...
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Learning To Love Leni Riefenstahl
The life and work of Leni Riefenstahl, who died on Monday at age 101, seems to lend itself to...
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Culture
Will You Laugh for Me, Please?
On April 8, Charles R. Douglass, the inventor of canned laughter—the artificial jollity that accompanies comical moments on...
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Ideology Reloaded
There is something inherently naïve about taking the “philosophical” underpinning of The Matrix series seriously and discussing...
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How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
Democracy is not merely the “power of, by, and for the people.” It is not enough just to...
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Today, Iraq. Tomorrow ... Democracy?
Much more is at stake in this war than the future of Saddam Hussein
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Catastrophes Real and Imagined
In Minority Report, the Steven Spielberg film based on a Philip K. Dick story, three humans, through monstrous...
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The Desert of the Real
Is this the end of fantasy?
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