Slavoj Žižek

An archive of texts and documents by and about philosopher Slavoj Žižek on libcom.org.

Portrait of Slavoj Žižek

Žižek’s 360 Degrees of Liberal Hegemony - Bill Beech

This essay is a critique of Slavoj Žižek's essay in Underground Theory (2023), and by extension, of a number of his statements regarding the war…

De horizon van de anarchie: anarchisme en het huidige radicale denken.

Dit artikel onderzoekt de relevantie van het anarchisme voor de aan de gang zijnde debatten in de continentale radicale politieke filosofie. Het stelt dat het anarchisme – als een vorm van politiek die de afschaffing van de staatsmacht voorstelt – de niet erkende referentie is voor de radicale politiek vandaag, en dat hedendaagse denkers zoals Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière en Michael Hardt en Antonio Negri, en…

Some Thoughts on Peterson, Zizek and debate as a concept

Some thoughts on the role and function of formal debate.

Essai sur "l'herméneutique" stalinienne - Slavoj Zizek

Zizek's contribution (pp. 86-144) in Armando Verdiglione 1978, Actes du Colloque de Milan, 1977: Généalogie de la politique (Colletivo semiotica e psicanalisi) La Violence, Volume 2 (pp. 375), Paris: Union Générale d'Editions 10/18 (Christian Bourgois).

Sara Ahmed responds to Slavoj Žižek on multiculturalism

‘Liberal multiculturalism is the hegemony – it's an empirical fact’ – a response to Slavoj Žižek - Sara Ahmed

Sara Ahmed responds to Slavoj Žižek's influential critique of contemporary liberal…

Fantasies - Noam Chomsky

In an ongoing dispute, Chomsky responds to Zizek claiming that he didn't "know a guy who was so often empirically wrong" as Chomsky, and in…

The Parallax View - Slavoj Žižek

One of Slavoj Žižek's major works on political ontology, complete with trademark crude jokes.

ŽIŽEK/GAGA: Communism Knows No Monster

DSG's now infamous article "by" Slavoj Žižek. Based on an in-joke in the UK student movement, it was picked up by the mainstream media in the US…

The Idea of Communism

Review: The idea of communism

Review and discussion of 'The Idea of Communism', a collection of essays discussing the place of communism in contemporary politics from Žižek,…

Shoplifters of the world unite - Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek on the meaning of the recent riots in England's cities.

The Political Theory of Constitutive Lack: A Critique - Andrew Robinson

A critique of Lacanian theory and its associated politics

Statement in support of Abahlali baseMjondolo

Statement by Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Zizek and others in support of Abahlali baseMjondolo