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Slavoj Žižek

b. 1949

Hegel, Lacan and Marx run through pop culture, jokes and film.

Ideas

Ideology survives knowing better

Cynics know the system is false and go along with it anyway. The belief lives in what we do, not what we say.

Lacan, applied

Using Lacan's Imaginary, Symbolic and Real to read politics, cinema and everyday life.

Culture as a lens

Hollywood films, jokes and toilets all turn up as evidence in serious philosophical arguments.

In their words

“Welcome to the desert of the real.”

Start with

• The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
• The Parallax View (2006)
• Living in the End Times (2010)

Slavoj Žižek on Wikipedia

Photo: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; cut out and graded black and white.