Slavoj Žižek

Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression

by Geoff Cox and Alex McLean  · 9 Nov 2012

that is preordained but not fully known, speech is also retroactive: it is speech in-itself, or speech that preexists itself, “speech before speech,” as Slavoj Žižek explains.14 Things are decided before they are enacted in actuality, and in this sense are always ready to be executed. 4 example@speakingcode:code

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to the politics of work through the Office suite of programs. 9. Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses: Notes Toward an Investigation” (1969), in Slavoj Žižek, ed., Mapping Ideology (London: Verso, 1997), 131. To explain, “ideological 112 Notes to Pages 2–6 State apparatuses” include the family, schools, church, legal apparatus

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language taking two main forms, in which speech privileges time over space and writing space over time. 13. Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” 14. Slavoj Žižek, The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (London: Verso, 1999), 60. 15. Judith Butler, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (London: Routledge

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of real history—in that it has “no history of its own.” See Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses: Notes Toward an Investigation,” in Slavoj Žižek, ed., Mapping Ideology (London: Verso, 1997), 122. 9. Pall Thayer, Repeating History (2009; available at http://pallit.lhi.is/microcodes/contr.php?code _id=28

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narrativized versions (see Wolfgang Ernst and Friedrich Kittler). Instead of linear history, something far more recursive is presented. 14. Slavoj Žižek, “Hegel’s ‘Logic of Essence’ as a Theory of Ideology,” in The Žižek Reader, ed. Elizabeth Wright and Edmond Wright (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), 225–250. 15. Heinz von Foerster, Cybernetics of Cybernetics

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the separation of the “negated system’s ‘real’ death from its ‘symbolic’ death . . . the system has to die twice.” See Slavoj Žižek, The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (London: Verso, 1999), 72. Or to put it in straightforward Marxist terms: producers take over the

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reading. 6. Hayles, My Mother Was a Computer, 17–30. 7. Judith Butler, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (London: Routledge, 1997), 1. 8. Slavoj Žižek, Violence (London: Profile Books, 2008), 52, 58. He also refers to the hegemonic operations of language in the work of Laclau and the ontological violence

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), somewhat explained by the statement, “Every something is an echo of Nothing,” in Silence: Lectures and Writings (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1961), 131. 24. Slavoj Žižek, The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (London: Verso, 1999), 72. He is explaining the gap that separates the negated system’s “real

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/en/All-Problems-of-Notation-Will-be-Solved-by -the-Masses. Žižek, Slavoj. “Hegel’s ‘Logic of Essence’ as a Theory of Ideology.” In The Žižek Reader, ed. Elizabeth Wright and Edmond Wright. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. Žižek, Slavoj, ed. Mapping Ideology. London: Verso, 1997. Žižek, Slavoj. The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology. London: Verso

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, 1999. Žižek, Slavoj. Violence. London: Profile Books, 2008. Index 4chan, 69, 73 action, 1

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–86 Wiener, Norbert, 111n5, 120n27 WikiLeaks, 69, 78 Winogrand, Terry, 6 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 32, 35 www_hack, 82 Young, La Monte, 22 Yuill, Simon, 64 Žižek, Slavoj, 3, 42–43, 102, 103, 104, 122n63, 131n106, 132n8, 133n24 149 

Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis

by Benjamin Kunkel  · 11 Mar 2014  · 142pp  · 45,733 words

Logic of Neoliberalism 3. Robert Brenner: Full Employment and the Long Downturn 4. David Graeber: In the Midst of Life We Are in Debt 5. Slavoj Žižek: The Unbearable Lightness of “Communism” 6. Boris Groys: Aesthetics of Utopia Guide to Further Reading Introduction To the disappointment of friends who would prefer to

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that could always be made when other justifications failed. It’s in light of this change that the next-to-last essay here argues, against Slavoj Žižek and others, that the left needs to supplement its anticapitalism with a basic conception of another order, a sort of minimum utopian program (no doubt

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that enables life to be distributed socially … The first duty of every citizen is to insist on having money on reasonable terms. April 2012 5 Slavoj Žižek: The Unbearable Lightness of “Communism” Marxism has tended to be, since the first collaborations of Marx and Engels, a thorough critique of capitalist society from

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bridge across the chasm nor the institutions lying on the other side could be imagined. These are the reduced circumstances in which the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek has been, for at least the past dozen years or so, the world’s best-known Marxist thinker. With graphomaniacal productivity and postmodern range

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has said he isn’t a Marxist—and yet more philo-communist. His recent Communist Postscript (2009) joins the efforts of other contemporary thinkers, notably Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou, to revive communism as the rallying cry of the left. The differences go further. Where Adorno insisted on the artist’s deep

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Marxist criticism and, through historically situated readings of classic novels by Balzac and Conrad among others, an exemplary demonstration of the practice. My discussions of Slavoj Žižek and Boris Groys differ from the other pieces in this collection in that they aren’t exactly appreciations. Still, these writers have provoked my admiration

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams  · 1 Oct 2015  · 357pp  · 95,986 words

utopias imagined worlds that overcame the problems posed by rapid urbanisation and conflicting ethnicities.44 These worlds not only model solutions, but illuminate problems. As Slavoj Žižek notes in his discussion of Thomas Piketty, the seemingly modest demand to implement a global tax actually implies a radical reorganisation of the entire global

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19: 6 (2014). 64.Ernesto Laclau, ‘Identity and Hegemony: The Role of Universality in the Constitution of Political Logics’, in Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek, eds, Contingency, Hegemony and Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (London: Verso, 2011), p. 50. 65.The classical mark of ideology today is that it

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feeds on cynicism, or, as Slavoj Žižek puts it, ideology works even (and especially) if you do not believe in it. See Slavoj Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology (London/New York: Verso, 1989). 66.Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis

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University Press, 2014). 41.Ernesto Laclau, ‘Identity and Hegemony: The Role of Universality in the Constitution of Political Logics’, in Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek, eds, Contingency, Hegemony and Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (London: Verso, 2011). 42.Nora Sternfeld, ‘Whose Universalism Is It?’, transl. Mary O’Neill, 2007

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book will focus predominantly on the first. 55.Alex Gourevitch, ‘Labor Republicanism and the Transformation of Work’, Political Theory 41: 4 (2013), p. 597. 56.Slavoj Žižek, ‘Utopia and Its Discontents’, interview with Slawomir Sierakowski, 23 February 2015, at lareviewofbooks.org. 57.Karl Marx, Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit

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. 16. 43.Zygmunt Bauman, Socialism: The Active Utopia (London: Routledge, 2011), p. 13. 44.Kilgore, Astrofuturism, pp. 237–8; Stites, Revolutionary Dreams, p. 33. 45.Slavoj Žižek, ‘Towards a Materialist Theory of Subjectivity’, Birkbeck, London, 22 May 2014, podcast available at backdoorbroadcasting.net. 46.Weeks, Problem with Work, p. 204. 47.Ruth

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, 59, 100, 104 World Trade Organisation, 6 World War II, 46, 54, 56, 57, 115, 156 Zapatistas, 11, 22, 26, 35 zero-hours contracts, 93 Žižek, Slavoj, 140 Zuccotti Park, 31, 32

Hacking Capitalism

by Söderberg, Johan; Söderberg, Johan;

of our time, America, just as Karl Marx had predicted.11 Similar ideas have been voiced by the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek. In a paraphrase of Vladimir Lenin’s famous endorsement of electricity, Zizek exclaimed in a tongue-in-cheek way that: “socialism = free access to the Internet + power to the soviets”.12

Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

by Mehdi Hasan  · 27 Feb 2023  · 307pp  · 93,073 words

England to Kyiv in Ukraine. I’ll share secrets from my televised bouts with the likes of Erik Prince, John Bolton, Michael Flynn, Douglas Murray, Slavoj Žižek, Steven Pinker, and Vitali Klitschko, among many others. I’ll also unpack lessons on the art of rhetoric from luminaries ranging from the ancient Greek

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” and “booby traps,” too. Consider this exchange I had with the Slovenian philosopher and proud Marxist Slavoj Žižek, in 2016. Žižek appeared on UpFront to discuss his book Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors. Žižek is often seen as a man of the left, but as I went through his book, I

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on your side, all weighing in against your opponent. And if your opponent isn’t careful, their own words turn against them, too. Steven Pinker, Slavoj Žižek, John Bolton. These are sharp and savvy interlocutors. But if you have receipts, you don’t need to be intimidated by the intellect, qualifications, or

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) Young Earth creationism YouTube Zhang Wei-wei Zimmer, John zingers brevity and defined listening and most effective picking moment for preparation and spontaneity and Zionism Žižek, Slavoj zone, getting in ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mehdi Hasan is an award-winning British American journalist, anchor, and author. He is the host of The Mehdi

Humankind: Solidarity With Non-Human People

by Timothy Morton  · 14 Oct 2017  · 225pp  · 70,180 words

). 27.Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, trans. Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf (New York: Basic Books, 1963), 134–35. This is well discussed in Slavoj Žižek, The Parallax View (Boston: MIT Press, 2006), 25. 28.See Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford: Stanford

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University Press, 2010), 1.516–29; Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, trans. Bernard Bosanquet, introduction and commentary by Michael Inwood (London: Penguin, 1993), 85–86. 6.Slavoj Žižek on Alien: Resurrection in Sophie Fiennes, dir., The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (ICA Projects, 2006). 7.Karl Marx, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of

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.Immanuel Kant, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, ed. Robert B. Louden, introduction by Manfred Kuehn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 416–17. 3.Slavoj Žižek, “The Cologne Attacks were an Obscene Version of Carnival,” New Statesman, January 13, 2016, newstatesman.com, accessed January 15, 2016. 4.Norman Geras, Marx and

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Swedenborg, Emanuel 53 Tolstoy, Leo 111 Török, Mária 183 Wagner, Adolph 57 Whitehead, Alfred North 175 Wilde, Oscar 11 Wittgenstein, Ludwig 15, 32, 93, 95 Žižek, Slavoj 185

After Europe

by Ivan Krastev  · 7 May 2017  · 100pp  · 31,338 words

inequality between classes once had.”16 The Crisis and the Left In his reflections on the impact of the refugee crisis on Europe, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek comments on Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s classic study On Death and Dying.17 In her book, Kübler-Ross offers the well-known scheme of the

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://www.opendemocracy.net/people-newright/article_306.jsp. 13. Ayelet Shachar, The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009). 14. Slavoj Žižek, “The Cologne Attacks Were an Obscene Version of Carnival,” New Statesman 13 (January 2016). 15. “History of the World Values Survey Association,” http://www.worldvaluessurvey

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?CMSID=History. 16. Raymond Aron, The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness to the Twentieth Century (New York: Basic Books, 2002). 17. Slavoj Žižek, “We Can’t Address the EU Refugee Crisis without Confronting Global Capitalism,” In These Times, September 9, 2015. http://inthesetimes.com/article/18385

Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet

by Linda Herrera  · 14 Apr 2014  · 186pp  · 49,595 words

presence of the police state remained intact. As technologies became more advanced, the government continued to try to censor media content and monitor citizens’ communications. Slavoj Žižek refers to economic liberalization without political liberalization as “authoritarian capitalism,” or “capitalism with Asian values.” The government ministries that oversaw the communications and information sectors

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of change,” but with little thought to fundamental questions about change towards what, why, and for whom. In the video series Big Think, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek delivers a message to activists about the value of thinking. He recognizes that people feel pressured to urgently do something in response to a deteriorating

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Arab Awakening, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 11. 3.Ibid., 12. 4.P. Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, New York: Continuum, 1993, 21. 5.S. Žižek, “Slavoj Žižek: Don’t Act. Just Think,” YouTube, from the series Big Think. 6.The video was leaked by the RASSD news network (www.rassd.com) on

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, 21, 30–1, 152 and Egypt, 124, 127 and the Green Revolution, 39–40 and Khaled Said, 62, 75, 77 and Tunisia, 104–5, 112 Žižek, Slavoj, 11, 154 This eBook is licensed to Edward Betts, edward@4angle.com on 03/31/2016 On the Typeface This book is set in Minion

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

by Benjamin H. Bratton  · 19 Feb 2016  · 903pp  · 235,753 words

becomes the scope of design, the registration of labor, the touchpoint of advertising, and even (perhaps especially) the domain of activist belief, sacred and secular. Slavoj Žižek's definition of “the Real” as that which is negatively defined by fantasy is here given a literal, if dull, gloss.51 If so motivated

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(or Los Angeles, at least) is controlled by skinless reptile aliens and that humans live in a state of somnambulant delirium. See, for one example, Slavoj Žižek, “Through the Glasses Darkly,” In These Times, October 29, 2008, http://inthesetimes.com/article/3976/through_the_glasses_darkly. Regarding AR then, the wearing of

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, 347 Young, Neil, 412n69 Yugoslavian civil war, 23 Zaera-Polo, Alejandro, 166–167, 175 Zee Town, Facebook, 185 zero-sum economics, 336 zettaflop computing, 102 Žižek, Slavoj, 241, 426n46, 427n51 zombie jurisdictions, 296 zone of habitation, 22 Zuckerberg, Mark, 185

Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement

by Amy Lang and Daniel Lang/levitsky  · 11 Jun 2012  · 537pp  · 99,778 words

demographics change day to day, hour to hour. This is, on the one hand, a beautiful strength, a real chance for imaginative dialogue in what Slavoj Žižek rightly calls2 a deeply ideological time; on the other hand, as The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg cautions,3 we have yet to see whether

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social systems overnight through this movement, the reality is that this is a long-term struggle. And there is always the danger of co-optation. Slavoj Žižek warned Occupy Wall Street that: ‘The problem is the system that pushes you to give up. Beware not only of the enemies. But also of

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park at any time, and it becomes both a tool of radical equalization and an embodied ritual of spending time in the movement. Cornel West, Slavoj Žižek, Joseph Stiglitz, Naomi Klein, Russell Simmons, Michael Moore and other public figures who have come to the park to express solidarity all used the people

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27, 86, 155, 173 see also children and students Youngstown 227 Zapatistas 21, 48, 64, 230, 233 Zena (at Occupy Boston) 128 Ziolkowski, Thad 42 Žižek, Slavoj 162, 169, 261 Zuccotti Park, New York 15, 34 see also Liberty Plaza Zunguzungu (blogger) 110 About New Internationalist We are an independent not-for

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The Social Life of Money

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Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

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The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What's Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again

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Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

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Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

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Picnic Comma Lightning: In Search of a New Reality

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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

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The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems-And Create More

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Philanthrocapitalism

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The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy

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The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

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The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

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