![]() ![]() He seems drawn to taking unfashionable stances that make him unpopular with traditionalists of whatever political hue. They include: The Ticklish Subject, which deals with "the spectre of the Cartesian subject in western thought" The Plague of Fantasies, which analyses the ways in which "audiovisual media clouds the ability to reason and understand the world" and the wonderfully titled Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?, a fierce critique of "the liberal-democratic consensus". Žižek's book titles reflect his playful and often self-contradictory theoretical thrust. ![]() ![]() "I don't give clear answers to even the simplest, most direct questions," Žižek says. Žižek describes himself as "a complicated communist" and, as if to complicate things further, he deploys the psychoanalytical theories of the late French thinker Jacques Lacan to illustrate the ways in which capitalist ideology works on the collective imagination. They have gathered here to listen to a 61-year-old Slovenian philosopher called Slavoj Žižek, whose critique of global capitalism now stretches to more than 50 books translated into more than 20 languages. ![]()
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