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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.005 |
| Birthday | 1949-03-21 |
| Place of Birth | Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Also Known As | Slavoj Zizek, |
2008
Examined Life
6.4/27
Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. Offering privileged moments with great thinke...
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Examined Life
2006
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
7.3/160
A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek's most e...
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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
2005
Žižek!
6.656/32
ŽIŽEK! trails the thinker as he crisscrosses the globe, racing from New York City lecture halls, through the streets of Buenos Aires, and even stoppin...
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Žižek!
2021
Alice, Through the Looking
0/0
What happens when after the Wonderland, Alice finds herself in the post-Brexit United Kingdom? Philosophy student Alice’s world is turned upside down...
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Alice, Through the Looking
2004
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
6.5/14
In this tour de force filmed lecture, Slavoj Žižek lucidly and compellingly reflects on belief - which takes him from Father Christmas to democracy -...
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Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
2012
Catastroika
6.6/21
The creators of Debtocracy, analyze the shifting of state assets to private hands. They travel round the world gathering data on privatization and sea...
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Catastroika
2009
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
6.5/6
In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay throu...
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Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
1996
Predictions of Fire
6.5/6
A visceral documentary focusing on the Slovenian collective art movement known as NSK ('Neue Slowenische Kunst') and its varied branches: 'Laibach', '...
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Predictions of Fire
2012
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
7.3/132
A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious z...
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The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
1997
The Old and the New
0/0
It reconstructs the lively bustle of the Ljubljana subculture scene in the 80s, and it was made by two insiders. With minute and swift editing of the...
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The Old and the New
2018
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
0/0
A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a mak...
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Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
1993
Bravo: Laibach in Film
0/0
In the video film shots from the tour are interspersed with acted scenes, video clips and theoretical reflections of Slavoj Žižek and critic Chris Boh...
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Bravo: Laibach in Film
2016
Houston, We Have a Problem!
7.8/34
The cold war, the space race, and NASA’s moon landing are landmark events that defined an era. But they are also fodder for conspiracy theories. In Ho...
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Houston, We Have a Problem!
2013
There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
0/0
From 1977 to 1991 an image of Slovenia as a green, demilitarised and peaceful country of diligent people reigned in Yugoslavia, a country where differ...
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There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
2016
The New Man
0/0
A creative documentary about becoming a parent... and how to reconceive yourself. Fiction director Josh Appignanesi turns the camera on himself and hi...
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The New Man
2017
Risk
6.7/70
Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and...
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Risk
2009
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
5/3
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Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
1996
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
6.6/7
Slavoj Zizek, born in 1949 in Ljubljana, psychoanalyst and professor of philosophy, started early on a group of theoreticians who sharpened their thin...
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Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
2013
Balkan Spirit
6.6/5
Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning of "Balkan spirit".
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Balkan Spirit
1997
Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
6.4/5
After the fall of the Berlin wall, much changed in Yugoslavia, that is now ex-Yugoslavia; a post industrial, post modern, post national, post colonial...
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Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
2019
Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
3.5/2
A debate between Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek, said to be regarding happiness and whether Capitalism or Marxism is better at delivering it.
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Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
2011
Marx Reloaded
6.3/7
Marx Reloaded is a cultural documentary that examines the relevance of German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx's ideas for understanding the global...
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Marx Reloaded
2021
Bliss
5.506/618
A mind-bending love story following Greg who, after recently being divorced and then fired, meets the mysterious Isabel, a woman living on the streets...
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Bliss
1993
Laibach – A Film from Slovenia
7/1
In the video film shots from the tour are interspersed with acted scenes, video clips and theoretical reflections of Slavoj Žižek and critic Chris Boh...
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Laibach – A Film from Slovenia
2015
Hyperstition
0/0
A film on time and narrative by Christopher Roth with Armen Avanessian. Hyperstitional thinking hijacks the present-forming daring interventions into...
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Hyperstition
2016
The Swap
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The Swap is the third chapter of the PolEc Trilogy, comprising Wandering Marxwards (1998) and The Three Failures (2006). It features the same characte...
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The Swap
2020
Antigone, How Dare We!
5.5/1
Based on motifs from The Triple Life of Antigone by Slavoj Žižek, this film reflects on today’s planet and political “chaos” by placing the politician...
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Antigone, How Dare We!
2019
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
10/1
On February, April 19, 2019, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson debated Marxist philosopher Dr. Slavoj Zizek.
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Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
2019
Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography
0/0
An hour long interview with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek made by Russia Today for his 70th birthday. In this documentary Žižek answers questions...
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Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography
2008
Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy
0/0
Aren't the deformed images of Marx which we often come across in the Czech Republic, a manifestation of the fact that we have not yet come to terms wi...
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Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy
2024
Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
0/0
This is a completely uncut unexpurgated interview with arguably the most important philosopher of our time, Slavoj Zizek conducted at Tatiana's on the...
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