1949-03-21 ( 76 years old ) in Ljubljana, Slovenia
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.
Movies
Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
2024-06-27
Alice, Through the Looking
2021-11-12
An Apology for Modernity
2021-10-06
Bliss
2021-02-05
Antigone, How Dare We!
2020-10-30
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
2019-05-15
Risk
2017-05-05
The New Man
2016-11-18
The Swap
2016-10-19
Houston, We Have a Problem!
2016-05-05
Hyperstition
2015-07-22
There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
2013-04-25
Balkan Spirit
2013-04-08
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
2012-11-15
Catastroika
2012-04-26
Marx Reloaded
2011-04-11
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
2009-01-01
Examined Life
2008-09-05
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
2006-10-06
Žižek!
2005-11-18
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
2004-03-23
Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
1997-09-03
The Old and the New
1997-01-01
Predictions of Fire
1996-10-02
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
1996-01-01
Laibach – A Film from Slovenia
1993-02-04
Bravo: Laibach in Film
1993-01-01
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