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Slavoj Žižek
A Slovenian continental philosopher and critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis. Žižek is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a professor at the European Graduate School. He has been a visiting professor at, among others, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, London Consortium, Princeton, New York University, The New School, the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Irvine and the University of Michigan. He is currently the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana. Žižek uses examples from popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and uses Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian philosophy and Marxist economic criticism to interpret and speak extensively on immediately current social phenomena.
Filmography
The Pervert's Guide to Utopias
Film · 2026
Die Macht des Rings
Film · 2026
Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
Film · 2024
Deep Thought
Series · 2023
Alice, Through the Looking
Film · 2021
Bliss
Film · 2021
An Apology for Modernity
Film · 2021
Great Minds
Series · 2021
Antigone, How Dare We!
Film · 2020
Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Film · 2019
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Film · 2019
Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography
Film · 2019
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Film · 2018
Risk
Film · 2017
Houston, We Have a Problem!
Film · 2016
The New Man
Film · 2016
The Swap
Film · 2016
Hyperstition
Film · 2015
There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
Film · 2013
Balkan Spirit
Film · 2013
Catastroika
Film · 2012
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Film · 2012
Marx Reloaded
Film · 2011
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Film · 2009
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
Film · 2009
The Title Was Shot
Film · 2009
Examined Life
Film · 2008
Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy
Film · 2008
Q&A
Series · 2008
The Possibility of Hope
Film · 2007
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Film · 2006
Žižek!
Film · 2005
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Film · 2004
Parola (su una data)
Series · 2003
The Old and the New
Film · 1997
Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
Film · 1997
Predictions of Fire
Film · 1996
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
Film · 1996
Bravo: Laibach in Film
Film · 1993
Laibach – A Film from Slovenia
Film · 1993
Newsnight
Series · 1980