Slavoj Žižek

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.

  • Title: Slavoj Žižek
  • Popularity: 2.23
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1949-03-21
  • Place of Birth: Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Homepage: http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavoj-zizek/biography
  • Also Known As: Slavoj Zizek
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Slavoj Žižek Movies

  • 2008
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    Examined Life

    Examined Life

    6.4 2008 HD

    Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. Offering privileged moments with great...

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  • 2006
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    The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

    The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

    7.3 2006 HD

    A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek's...

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  • 2005
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    Žižek!

    Žižek!

    6.6 2005 HD

    ŽIŽEK! trails the thinker as he crisscrosses the globe, racing from New York City lecture halls, through the streets of Buenos Aires, and even...

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  • 2021
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    Alice, Through the Looking

    Alice, Through the Looking

    1 2021 HD

    What happens when after the Wonderland, Alice finds herself in the post-Brexit United Kingdom? Philosophy student Alice’s world is turned...

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  • 2004
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    Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual

    Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual

    6.5 2004 HD

    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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  • 2012
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    Catastroika

    Catastroika

    6.6 2012 HD

    The creators of Debtocracy, analyze the shifting of state assets to private hands. They travel round the world gathering data on privatization and...

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  • 2009
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    Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution

    Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution

    5.8 2009 HD

    In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay...

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  • 1996
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    Predictions of Fire

    Predictions of Fire

    6.5 1996 HD

    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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  • 2012
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    The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

    The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

    7.3 2012 HD

    A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious...

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  • 1997
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    The Old and the New

    The Old and the New

    1 1997 HD

    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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  • 2018
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    Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

    Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

    1 2018 HD

    A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a...

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  • 1993
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    Bravo: Laibach in Film

    Bravo: Laibach in Film

    1 1993 HD

    In the video film shots from the tour are interspersed with acted scenes, video clips and theoretical reflections of Slavoj Žižek and critic Chris...

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  • 2016
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    Houston, We Have a Problem!

    Houston, We Have a Problem!

    7.8 2016 HD

    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...

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  • 2013
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    There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People

    There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People

    1 2013 HD

    From 1977 to 1991 an image of Slovenia as a green, demilitarised and peaceful country of diligent people reigned in Yugoslavia, a country where...

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  • 2016
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    The New Man

    The New Man

    1 2016 HD

    A creative documentary about becoming a parent... and how to reconceive yourself. Fiction director Josh Appignanesi turns the camera on himself and...

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  • 2017
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    Risk

    Risk

    6.7 2017 HD

    Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives...

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  • 2009
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    Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait

    Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait

    5 2009 HD

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  • 1996
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    Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself

    Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself

    6.6 1996 HD

    Slavoj Zizek, born in 1949 in Ljubljana, psychoanalyst and professor of philosophy, started early on a group of theoreticians who sharpened their...

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  • 2013
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    Balkan Spirit

    Balkan Spirit

    6.6 2013 HD

    Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning of "Balkan spirit".

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  • 1997
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    Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin

    Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin

    6.4 1997 HD

    After the fall of the Berlin wall, much changed in Yugoslavia, that is now ex-Yugoslavia; a post industrial, post modern, post national, post...

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  • 2019
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    Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism

    Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism

    3.5 2019 HD

    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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  • 2011
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    Marx Reloaded

    Marx Reloaded

    6.3 2011 HD

    Marx Reloaded is a cultural documentary that examines the relevance of German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx's ideas for understanding the...

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  • 2021
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    Bliss

    Bliss

    5.5 2021 HD

    A mind-bending love story following Greg who, after recently being divorced and then fired, meets the mysterious Isabel, a woman living on the...

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  • 1993
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    Laibach ‎– A Film from Slovenia

    Laibach ‎– A Film from Slovenia

    7 1993 HD

    In the video film shots from the tour are interspersed with acted scenes, video clips and theoretical reflections of Slavoj Žižek and critic Chris...

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  • 2015
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    Hyperstition

    Hyperstition

    1 2015 HD

    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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  • 2016
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    The Swap

    The Swap

    1 2016 HD

    The Swap is the third chapter of the PolEc Trilogy, comprising Wandering Marxwards (1998) and The Three Failures (2006). It features the same...

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  • 2020
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    Antigone, How Dare We!

    Antigone, How Dare We!

    5.5 2020 HD

    Based on motifs from The Triple Life of Antigone by Slavoj Žižek, this film reflects on today’s planet and political “chaos” by...

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  • 2019
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    Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism

    Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism

    10 2019 HD

    On February, April 19, 2019, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson debated Marxist philosopher Dr. Slavoj Zizek.

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  • 2019
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    Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography

    Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography

    1 2019 HD

    An hour long interview with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek made by Russia Today for his 70th birthday. In this documentary Žižek answers...

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  • 2008
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    Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy

    Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy

    1 2008 HD

    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...

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  • 2024
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    Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek

    Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek

    1 2024 HD

    This is a completely uncut unexpurgated interview with arguably the most important philosopher of our time, Slavoj Zizek conducted at Tatiana's on...

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  • 2018
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    Turn On

    Turn On

    1 2018 HD

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  • 2006
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    The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

    The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

    7.3 2006 HD

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  • 2012
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    The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

    The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

    7.3 2012 HD

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  • 2004
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    Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual

    Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual

    6.5 2004 HD

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  • 2019
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    Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism

    Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism

    10 2019 HD

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  • 2020
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    Antigone, How Dare We!

    Antigone, How Dare We!

    5.5 2020 HD

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  • 2021
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    Great Minds

    Great Minds

    5.2 2021 HD

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  • 2008
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    Q&A

    Q&A

    3.8 2008 HD

    Hosted by Hamish Macdonald, Q&A puts punters, pollies and pundits together in the studio to thrash out the hot issues of the week. It's about...

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