Slavoj Žižek
Sub-title:
Resist, Attack, Undermine… Where Are We 40 Years After ’68?
Date & Time:
03/11/2008 - 19:00
Kicker:
SOLD OUT Only ticket holders will be admitted.
Some tickets for spillover rooms with closed circuit TV will be available at the door.
THE BRECHT FORUM, LEFT FORUM 2008 & VERSO BOOKS PRESENT:
Co-sponsor:
@ the CUNY Graduate Center<br>
365 5th Avenue (corner of 34th street)<br>
Proshansky Auditorium
Description:
"Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation." -New Yorker
"Unafraid of confrontation and with a near limitless grasp of pop
symbolism." -The Times
"Žižek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability." -Publishers Weekly
Slavoj Žižek is today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture, literature and jokes--all to provide acute analyses of the complexities of contemporary ideology as well as a serious and sophisticated philosophy. The author of over 30 books, his forthcoming In Defense of Lost Causes (Verso 2008) will be
published in June.
Slavoj Žižek’s provocative prose has challenged a generation of activists and intellectuals. Now the famed gadfly of the left will make a major New York City appearance on March 11th at the CUNY Graduate Center. His talk will open this years Left Forum conference, the largest gathering in North America of the US and international Left.
Called the "Elvis of cultural theory" and the "greatest intellectual high since anti-Oedipus" his genre bending style has him writing everything from reflections on Lenin's polemics to Levi blue jeans ads. Zizek's work his appeared in the The New York Times, New Yorker, The Guardian as well as Astrid Taylor's feature length film Zizek!. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Minimum Fee:
6
Max Registration:
315
Fee:
This event is SOLD OUT
There will be overflow rooms with close circuit TV available for $5 at the door.
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