Slavoj Žižek: ‘Joe Biden is long-term the same catastrophe as Trump’
The Slovenian philosopher divides opinion over his often-contradictory viewpoints
The Slovenian philosopher divides opinion over his often-contradictory viewpoints
Unthinkable: Philosophy's future is in safe hands judging by the Young Philosopher Awards
Theatre in Ireland this year was bookended by two crises, a state of play mirrored by the work
Unthinkable: Justin E H Smith discusses technological utopianism, Slavoj Zizek and the role of comedy in philosophy
Amid growing interest in the ‘science of irrationality’, The Irish Times provides an A-Z of common intellectual traps
Slavoj Zizek said it is easier to imagine the end of the world than of capitalism. It’s often easier to imagine the end of capitalism than of this play
Use of WB Yeats by politicians and media is an index of how bad world has become
The controversial art group NSK has unleashed a host of challenging works in Clare
An anti-stand-up show that could be very good indeed
Firebrand Slovenian academic Slavoj Zizek has spent his entire career dismantling culture and exposing the banality of conventional wisdom. He’s delivering his splenetic opinions again in Sophie Fiennes’s ‘The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology’. “Life is shit,” he says. “But it’s relatively okay today.”
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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