Zizek’s Critique of Postgender Ideology
Flashback August 9, 2021: This video risks defending the idea of sexual difference from what Slavoj Zizek has called postgenderism in order to explain how this postgender ideology maps onto Capitalist Realism. It also describes how the war on the notion of biological sex is a war fought by unconscious conservatives. Support Sublation Media on […]
How to Be an Artist When Nothing Lasts Forever
Flashback to February 21, 2019: This video is the third in a series about self-consciousness. This time rather than exclusively focusing on Bill Murray or the history of Dada and Surrealism (although they’ll both come up again)we start off opposing Slavoj Zizek’s version of Hegelian Materialism against Alan Watts’ Western Buddhism. We then take up […]
Slavoj Zizek, UFOs, David Grusch and Cynical Disavowal
This Critical Cuts video is an exploration of psyops, Slavoj Zizek’s theory of ideology, and David Grusch’s recent claim that the US government has Flying Saucers in its possession. Support Us on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap source
Chomsky vs. Zizek (interview with Slavoj Zizek in 2021)
This flashback video is a follow-up to the interview that was released in 2021 and it attempts to pick out a central argument in support of Zizek and in support of what, for the sake of convenience, we call the Hegelian left. It features excerpts from a full lenght interview with Zizek and clips from […]
Slavoj Zizek Interview: Sex and the Failed Absolute
This Flashback Friday video is a Critical Cuts montage based on an interview with Slavoj Zizek. It was originally uploaded to the Zer0 Books youtube channel back in 2020. Since then I have left Zer0 Books and the new management has removed all the videos produced while I was the publishing manager there. I have […]
Uncover Your True Identity with Slavoj Zizek!
Modern life makes it difficult to have a firm and consistent sense of yourself. We are led to anxiety and self-doubt, especially when we try to change ourselves or the world. This video considers psychoanalytic theories of identity in the context of the demands of capitalist society. Support Us on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap source
Why (Critiquing) Zizek Is Necessary
This video essay is a defense of Slavoj Žižek created in the aftermath of Gabriel Rockhill’s essay “Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Zizek.” Here I attempt to place both Žižek and Rockhill within historical context and reframe the debate by breaking with the typical practice of character assassination that has developed through the online left. Support […]
Provoked by Zizek
Ashley Frawley, Ben Burgis, Theory Pleeb and Douglas Lain discuss the most recent hatchet job on Slavoj Zizek, Lacan, and Freud. Ben Burgis defending Zizek https://benburgis.substack.com/p/dont-cancel-zizek Support Us On Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap source
Zizek's Symptom and Working Class Politics
Dr. Thomas Jones joins Douglas Lain for a conversation about his essay for Sublation Magazine entitled “On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.” Jones has worked as a software engineer in both industry and academia. He has been a socialist activist for the better part of a decade, starting his journey towards socialism at occupy wall […]
Slavoj Zizek on the Double Blackmail (circa 1999)
This clip from the recent Critical Cuts Video entitled “From Culture War to Global War?” explains Zizek’s notion of double blackmail as it related to the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. Watch “From Culture War to Global War?” in its entirety here: source