Painting by Ahn Gyeon (안견/安堅), Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land (몽유도원도/夢遊桃源圖), 1447.

8.8.10

Žižek interview

I can't get enough of Žižek! He has become one of a handful of (living) philosophers to follow  extensively and in depth, alongside Giorgio Agamben, Jürgen Habermas and -- in a more specific domain -- Joseph Raz.
Žižek's style and approach have even earned him the quasi-sobriquet "Elvis of cultural theory" (thanks to the simplistic New York Times). As a public intellectual and iconoclast, he may one day be as important -- though probably not as militant and admired -- as Noam Chomsky.
Here is an interview given on 15 October 2009 to Democracy Now!, where he addresses a range of current topics:


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