This event is cancelled. Please accept our apologies for any
inconvenience caused.
Registration is required. Please email your name to rsvp@garageccc.com, putting
‘ZIZEK’ in the subject heading.
We invite you to come hear Slavoj Žižek – Slovenian cultural critic and
philosopher, and one of the world’s foremost thinkers. Internationally renowned
for his unique philosophical position that marries Hegelianism, Marxism and
Lacanian psychoanalysis, Žižek’s is a prominent critical voice that famously
disregards distinctions between high and low culture and grapples with all of
life’s idiosyncrasies.
Brian Dillon from the Daily Telegraph explains ‘Slavoj Žižek may well be the
last great thinker of our time... It's his range that impresses—he's equal
parts forbidding theorist of the contemporary political and cultural scene, and
contriver of entertainingly elaborate paradoxes. If it weren't for the hangdog
persona and residual communism, he'd be an intellectual dandy: the closest
thing we have to the mock-aristocratic socialist Oscar Wilde.’
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. Žižek is a senior
researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia,
and a professor at the European Graduate School. He is currently the
International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck
College, University of London. His books include Living in the End Times
(2010), First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (2009), In Defense of Lost Causes
(2008), four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.
This event is organized by ArtChronika Cultural Foundation.
