Slavoj Žižek

Dr Slavoj Žižek, professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School, is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London and the author of "Heaven in Disorder."

The real dividing line in Israel-Palestine

The choice is not one hardline faction or the other; it is between fundamentalists and all those who still believe in the possibility of peaceful co-existence.

Freedom without justice

If we believe that things will fall into place by just letting them take their course, we will end up with multiple catastrophes.

In Russia and Israel, national derangement runs wild

Whenever a country’s social contract unravels, conditions become ripe for rumours and absurdities to circulate.

Without whistleblowers, the West is lost

We need people like Assange to force such reckonings – to make us see “those in the darkness.”

The Post-Human Desert

A massive expansion of AI capabilities is a serious threat to those in power – including those who develop, own, and control AI. It points to nothing less than the end of capitalism as we know it.

The Dark Side of Neutrality

Those who would claim neutrality forfeit their standing to complain about the horrors of colonisation anywhere.

Death or Glory in Russia

Russia’s reversion to warlordism is fuelled by a religious fundamentalism.

Eating the Last Cannibal

For political figures like Trump and Putin, courage is redefined as a willingness to break the state’s laws if the state’s own interests – or their own – demand it. The implication is that civilisation endures only if there are brave patriots who will do the dirty work. This is a decidedly right-wing form of “heroism.” It is easy to act nobly on behalf of one’s country – short of sacrificing one’s life for it – but only the strong of heart can bring themselves to commit crimes for it.

October 5, 2022
October 5, 2022

Women, Life, Freedom, and the Left

We in the West have no right to treat Iran as a country that is desperately trying to catch up with us.

September 17, 2022
September 17, 2022

Ukraine Is Palestine, Not Israel

By treating Israel’s colonisation of Palestine as a defensive struggle, Ukraine is validating its senseless aggression.

August 31, 2022
August 31, 2022

Ukraine’s Tale of Two Colonisations

More is at stake in Ukraine than many commentators seem to appreciate. In a world beset by the effects of climate change, fertile land will be an increasingly valuable asset.

August 25, 2022
August 25, 2022

Degeneracy, Depravity, and the New Right

The mundane origin of the Kosovo crisis shows how easily a spark can be fanned into a conflagration.

August 4, 2022
August 4, 2022

What the 'Woke' Left and the Alt-Right Share

Western political correctness (“wokeness”) has displaced class struggle, producing a liberal elite that claims to protect threatened racial and sexual minorities in order to divert attention from its members’ own economic and political power. At the same time, this lie allows alt-right populists to present themselves as defenders of “real” people against corporate and “deep state” elites, even though they, too, occupy positions at the commanding heights of economic and political power.

July 18, 2022
July 18, 2022

The Betrayal of the Left

The left should maintain solidarity with those who resist aggressive, arbitrary power, whether in Ukraine or elsewhere.

March 27, 2022
March 27, 2022

From Cold War to Hot Peace

With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we are entering a new phase of warfare and global politics. Aside from a heightened risk of nuclear catastrophe, we are already in a perfect storm of mutually reinforcing global crises—the pandemic, climate change, biodiversity loss, and food and water shortages.

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