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Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki
1. December 2009
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University of Helsinki
30. November 2009
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Slavoj Žižek argues that the neoliberalism died twice: first as a political doctrine in the tragedy of the attacks of 9/11; then its farcical collapse as an economic theory when the meltdown at the end of 2008 brought an end to the utopia of global market capitalism. Has this crisis now offered a vital opening for the left to seize the reins of politics and the state?
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Žižek visits the RSA to ask the question that is on everyone’s lips: if we can pour billions of dollars into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization, why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis?
Four of the world’s leading public intellectuals came together on Thursday, October 22 in the historic Great Hall at Cooper Union to discuss “Rethinking Secularism.” In an electrifying symposium convened by the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, the Social Science Research Council and the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University, Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West gave powerful accounts of religion in the public sphere.
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Australian writer and critic CLIVE JAMES suggests that what makes a film star iconic is their ability to be both inaccessible and seemingly perfect. Their faces, stripped back on screen and airbrushed of imperfections, restrict visual information to a bare minimum thus giving enough room for our imagination to full in the gaps. British mathematician and trumpet player MARCUS DU SAUTOY claims mathematics can flow from music, and music from maths. Mathematicians and composers both create patterns and aesthetic judgement helps a mathematician pick out the structure in mathematical proofs. Slovenian philosopher SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK claims we’re all retreating into a new era that he calls ‘interpassivity’ in which we pass on our activity not just to others to do it for us but increasingly also to inanimate objects.
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Is there anything for political progressives in the Christian message? Slavoj Žižek recognizes the potential of Christianity to embody moral and political revolt. John Milbank believes theology is the only foundation upon which knowledge, politics and ethics can stand. They have co-authored The Monstrosity of Christ and tonight discuss Christian theology’s emancipatory potential. Chair: Giles Fraser, vicar of Putney.
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Slavoj Žižek’s lecture from the ‘On the Idea of Communism’ conference.
This conference took place on 13th – 15 March 2009 in the Logan Hall, Institute of Education, University of London.
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… Žižek was paired with Jack Miles, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “God: A Biography.” The two served as a kind of point/counterpoint, as the white-haired professor of religious studies spoke in careful, measured tones, while Žižek bubbled over at a rapid-fire pace throughout with the kind of nervous, propelling energy that characterizes his writing. He spoke like a man hungry for more breath, with a deeply thick accent that required nearly as much concentration to parse as his discourses.
The topic of the evening was violence, but the discussion skidded around to include Christian attitudes of tolerance, the poems of Radovan Karadžić and Heinrich Himmler’s reading habits (Žižek said Himmler kept a copy of the “Bhagavad Gita” with him wherever he went, all the better to maintain his emotional distance from the atrocities he carried out) …
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