Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London. His most recent book is Less than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism.

In the LRB Archive:

• Save us from the saviours: Europe and the Greeks · 7 June 2012

• The Revolt of the Salaried Bourgeoisie: The New Proletariat · 26 January 2012

• The Riots · 8 September 2011

• Shoplifters of the World Unite · 19 August 2011

• Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks: Gentlemen of the Left · 20 January 2011

• Can you give my son a job?: China’s Open Secret · 21 October 2010

  • The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor

• Post-Wall: Neo-Anti-Communism · 19 November 2009

• Berlusconi in Tehran: The Rome-Tehran Axis · 23 July 2009

• Use Your Illusions: Obama’s Victory and the Financial Meltdown · 14 November 2008

• Don’t Just Do Something, Talk: the financial crisis · 10 October 2008

• The Military-Poetic Complex: Radovan Karadzic’s Poetry · 14 August 2008

• Resistance Is Surrender: What to Do about Capitalism · 15 November 2007

• Freud Lives!: dreaming · 25 May 2006

• Nobody has to be vile: The Philanthropic Enemy · 6 April 2006

• Lenin Shot at Finland Station: Counterfactuality and the conservative historian · 18 August 2005

  • What Might Have Been: Imaginary History from 12 Leading Historians edited by Andrew Roberts

• The Two Totalitarianisms: Stalin applauded too · 17 March 2005

• Over the Rainbow: Populist Conservatism · 4 November 2004

• Knee-Deep: Leftist Platitudes · 2 September 2004

  • Free World: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our Time by Timothy Garton Ash

• Between Two Deaths: The Culture of Torture · 3 June 2004

• Parallax: Henning Mankell · 20 November 2003

  • The Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell, translated by Laurie Thompson

• Not a desire to have him, but to be like him: Highsmith is the One · 21 August 2003

  • Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson

• Bring me my Philips Mental Jacket: Improve Your Performance! · 22 May 2003

• Paranoid Reflections: What’s going on? · 3 April 2003

• Revolution must strike twice: Lenin’s Breakthrough · 25 July 2002

  • Lenin by Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, translated by George Holoch

• Are we in a war? Do we have an enemy?: Love Thy Neighbour · 23 May 2002

• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism: Václav Havel · 28 October 1999

  • Václav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts by John Keane

• ‘You May!’: the post-modern superego · 18 March 1999

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