Articles by Slavoj Zizek

• A Permanent Economic Emergency
  • Slavoj Zizek

  in NLR 64, July-August 2010, pp. 85-95
  Subjects: Europe , World Economy and Globalization
  

  As the Eurozone’s sovereign-debt crisis deepens, Slavoj Žižek calls for an internationalist response that would transcend the defence of a failing status quo, to invent new transitional strategies.

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• How to Begin from the Beginning
  • Slavoj Zizek

  in NLR 57, May-June 2009, pp. 43-55
  Subjects: Communist Movement , Philosophy , Political Theory and Strategy
  

  Mountaineering lessons from the Bolsheviks’ master strategist provide a metaphor for regroupment in hard times. Slavoj Žižek identifies the principal antagonisms within contemporary capitalism, as the basis for positing anew the ‘communist hypothesis’.

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• Against Human Rights
  • Slavoj Zizek

  in NLR 34, July-August 2005, pp. 115-131
  Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Psychology and Psychoanalysis
  

  Alibi for militarist interventions, sacralization for the tyranny of the market, ideological foundation for the fundamentalism of the politically correct: can the ‘symbolic fiction’ of universal rights be recuperated for the progressive politicization of actual socio-economic relations?

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• The Parallax View
  • Slavoj Zizek

  in NLR 25, January-February 2004, pp. 121-134
  Subjects: Philosophy , Political Theory and Strategy
  

  The philosophical basis for social action, as recast in Kojin Karatani’s striking Transcritique. On Kant and Marx. Slavoj Žižek investigates the irreducible antinomies of production and circulation—or economics and politics—as envisioned from the gap in between.

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• Why We All Love to Hate Haider
  • Slavoj Zizek

  in NLR 2, March-April 2000, pp. 37-45
  Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Europe , Austria
  

  What is the significance of the EU’s boycott of the new Austrian government? Beyond the Tartuffery of official reactions to Haider in the West, Slavoj Žižek dissects the political function of the new rectitudes of the Third Way.

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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  • Slavoj Zizek

  in NLR I/238, November-December 1999, pp. 26-47
  Subjects: Germany , History and Historiography , Political Theory and Strategy , Soviet Union and Russia
  

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• Against the Double Blackmail
  • Slavoj Zizek

  in NLR I/234, March-April 1999, pp. 76-82
  Subjects: United States , War and Peace , Balkans
  

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• Multiculturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism
  • Slavoj Zizek

  in NLR I/225, September-October 1997, pp. 28-51
  Subjects: Aesthetics , Social Theory
  

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• From Courtly Love to 'The Crying Game'
  • Slavoj Zizek

  in NLR I/202, November-December 1993, pp. 95-108
  Subjects: Aesthetics , Cinema
  

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• Eastern Europe's Republics of Gilead
  • Slavoj Zizek

  in NLR I/183, September-October 1990, pp. 50-62
  Subjects: Nationalism , Psychology and Psychoanalysis , Europe
  

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