Archive - ŽIŽEK GOADS AND PRODS

November 2024

THE MINOTAUR’S DEATH CRAMPS

In this new emerging post-Minotaur system, authoritarianism and liberalism coincide.

Nov 30 •

GROUCHO MARX, AI, AND THE ABSURD COMEDY OF GLOBAL WARMING

If AI determines that eliminating humans is in the best interest of life on Earth—or its own survival—so be it.

Nov 23 •

BEETHOVEN AND THE ACT

Stanley Kubrick was right when he used this movement as the music for his dystopian masterpiece A Clockwork Orange.

Nov 16 •

FROM MAGA TO MEGA: AFTER TRUMP'S VICTORY

No, everything is NOT going to be OK

Nov 9 •

HOW TO BREAK OUT OF OUR IDEOLOGICAL PRISON-HOUSE

Shame for one’s country—not love for it—may be the true mark of belonging to it

Nov 2 •

October 2024

ON SHAME AND DIGNITY IN AND AROUND GAZA

We don’t want aid. We want dignity.

Oct 26 •

THE MIDDLE EAST WAR: A BORING RECAPITULATION

We will find ourselves in a world of unholy alliances

Oct 19 •

VINKO GLOBOKAR, OR, THE EFFORT TO WRITE MATERIALIST MUSIC

Modern music is thoroughly and truly atheist, materialist, not in the sense of heroic defiance of God, but in the irrelevance of the divine.

Oct 12 •

NIHIL OBSTAT: VATICAN ON ITS WAY TO CULTURAL CHRISTIANITY

We experience the Good when, after choosing Evil, we become aware of the utter inadequacy of our situation.

Oct 5 •

September 2024

LARGER THAN LIFE

It is easier to imagine the end of capitalism than the death of Jameson.

Sep 28 •

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