Tag: Politics
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Interview with Nick Land, the Father of Accelerationism: Capitalism, and the Transformative Power of Technology
The Interview situates itself as a long, unhurried encounter with a thinker who long ago abandoned the safety rails of inherited philosophical diction in favor of a thermodynamic lexicon keyed to markets, code, circuitry, and the machinic appetites of a world already departing from us. Hosted by Theory Underground and released in mid-October 2024 as…
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Žižek’s Heaven in Disorder | 天上大乱
Comrades of the interval—neither before nor after, but in the thickening middle—what follows keeps faith with a specifically 2021 mood: an in-between composition framed by emergency, written when vaccination queues braided with border queues, when lockdown routines folded into supply-chain algorithms, and when a pathogen taught political economy at scale. The temporal setting matters. Numbers,…
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Herder on Nationality, Humanity, and History
To describe Frederick M. Barnard’s Herder on Nationality, Humanity, and History is to chart a work that treats Johann Gottfried Herder not merely as a source of quotable slogans about Volk, language, and culture, but as an architect of a supple vision in which the formative powers of a people’s speech, memory, and art are…
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Žižek’s Too Late to Awaken: What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future
Too Late to Awaken: What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future is Žižek at his most distilled and unflinching: a diagnosis of the present whose wager is that we can only act if we renounce the narcotic hope that action will preserve the continuity of how we live now. From the opening pages he…
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The Search for Historical Meaning: Hegel and the Postwar American Right
In The Search for Historical Meaning: Hegel and the Postwar American Right, Paul Gottfried analyses the ideological evolution of the American conservative movement in the post-World War II era, examining an often unacknowledged debt to Hegelian philosophy within the conservative thought of key intellectual figures. Gottfried’s exploration seeks to uncover how thinkers like Will Herberg,…
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Marx and Hegel on the Dialectic of the Individual and the Social
Marx and Hegel on the Dialectic of the Individual and the Social by Sevgi Doğan is a philosophically rigorous, politically charged, and historically grounded study that embarks on a systematic reconstruction of one of modernity’s most vexing and fundamental questions: the nature and role of the individual within the social totality. Rooted in the dialectical…
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Žižek’s Living in the End Times
In Living in the End Times, Slavoj Žižek plunges us into the vertiginous space where the collapse of global capitalism converges with the apocalypse of our collective imagination. From the first pages, Žižek insists that there can be no more illusions: the “four riders of the apocalypse”—the ecological meltdown, the internal imbalances of the market…
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Slavoj Žižek: Rethinking the Left and Reclaiming Education in the Age of Trump
Slavoj Žižek, in his characteristically confrontational and dialectical manner, asserts that the political left has long been in a state of decline, tracing its terminal crisis to the aftermath of the events of 1968, which he provocatively labels a false liberation. Rather than achieving genuine emancipation, Žižek argues that the cultural and political upheavals of…
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Slavoj Žižek on Trump, the Collapse of the Left, and the Transformation of American Politics
Slavoj Žižek, in his analysis of the global political situation offers a sweeping and unflinchingly critical diagnosis of the contemporary geopolitical order, locating the rise of Donald Trump not as a deviation or historical anomaly but rather as a concentrated symptom of broader, long-developing systemic failures. According to Žižek, Trump’s emergence on the political stage…
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Žižek on Trump: The Rise of a Post-Normative Political Figure and the Crisis of Liberal Authority
Slavoj Žižek’s extended critique of Donald Trump, presented through a philosophical and psychoanalytic lens, transcends superficial political commentary and ventures into the structural and libidinal economies of contemporary liberalism. The argument Žižek builds does not merely rest upon the observation of Trump’s obscenity or populist tactics; rather, it positions Trump as the symptomatic revelation of…
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Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future
In Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future, Ami Ayalon’s deeply personal reflections combine with the political realities, strategic conundrums, and psychological evolutions that have shaped both his own life and the state he has served so profoundly. The book’s pages carry the weight of his vast…
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Welt und Zeit—From Zizians to Zizekians, 22:39—5. March 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians From the earliest rumblings of philosophical…
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Welt und Zeit—With Us, Capitalism is Genocide, 21:44—5. March 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians World and time, as an unfolding…
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Welt und Zeit—The Micropolitics of Borders, 18:07—27. February 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians In the aftermath of our collective…
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Eraserhead, The David Lynch Files: Volume 1: The Full Story of One of the Strangest Films Ever Made.
A mesmerizing portrait of artistic perseverance and cinematic innovation, Eraserhead, The David Lynch Files: Volume 1 by Kenneth George Godwin unfolds as a strikingly thorough account of one of cinema’s most confounding and compelling debuts. Written at a time when the film was still a fresh wound in the collective imagination, it combines rigorous journalistic…
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Welt und Zeit—The End of a War, 21:00—24. February 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians In the wake of my previous…
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Whispered Legacies: Unraveling Rumors, Subjectivity, and Political Enigma in Lacanian Thought
Mladen Dolar is often seen as a towering figure in contemporary psychoanalytic philosophy, whose intellectual trajectory merges Lacanian thought with critical reflections on politics and cultural dynamics. His journey, marked by formative years in Paris studying with Lacan, is deeply embedded in the historical and political ferment of the late 1960s and early 1970s—a period…
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Welt und Zeit—Censorship, 18:01—12. Februar 2025
Intro Ontology Illusion Metaphilosophy Disaster Destiny Censorship Failure of Internationalism Fragmentation of Ontology Of the Abyss & the Void Disgusting Sexuality End of a War Micropolitics of Borders Metaphysical Implied Corporeal Hypothesis Tutankamon, The Son-King Acumen & Evil Emerging Fields With Us, Capitalism is Genocide From Zizians to Zizekians Censorship is the strategic suppression of…
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The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism
In an era where chaos reigns and disasters unfold with alarming frequency, Naomi Klein’s seminal work, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, emerged as an unsettling exploration of how power is wielded amidst turmoil. Heralded by luminaries such as John le Carré, who described it as “impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary…
