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COVID-19 and Our Purgatory of Consumerism

By Siraj Izhar / 14 January 2021

Our pandemic quarantine has become the sublime enactment of Baudrillard's theory of consumption – that modern consumption, with its myth of individual liberty and choice, is in fact 'de-socialising'.

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The Singularity of Žižek

By Sean Sheehan / 8 September 2020

According to Slavoj Žižek's latest work, Hegel in a Wired Brain, a new kind of Fall from the Fall is necessary.

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Film Forum Marx Brothers Festival: Unassuaged Desire

By Chadwick Jenkins / 23 September 2016

The Marx Brothers are polymorphously perverse: they find pleasure everywhere.

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Slavoj Zizek and Black America: Zizek Visits the ‘Tavis Smiley Show’

By PopMatters Staff / 5 November 2015

When you make jokes about black culture, the wrong people laugh at the wrong times for the wrong reasons. Slavoj Zizek tells Tavis Smiley why... sort of.

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