“In Lynch's films, the darkness is really dark. The light is truly unbearable, it is blinding. The fire really burns, it is so hot. In such moments of excess...

The collection includes essays by Slavoj Žižek on cinema, which he interprets through the prism of modern philosophy, sociology and popular culture: from the...

In the red corner of the ring is the philosopher Slavoj Zizek, a militant atheist, representing a critical-materialist position against religious illusions; ...

This book contains every joke quoted, paraphrased or mentioned in the works of Slavoj Žižek (including some from unpublished manuscripts). Unlike any other b...

Whatever book by Slavoj Žižek the reader chooses, no matter what the reader himself is, we can say with almost certainty that he will not remain indifferent....

The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, well known in Russia, says: cinema is the most perverted of the arts. True, perverted not in the sense that it is vic...

For the political and ideological context in which the book “Metastases of Pleasure” was created, the experience of the war in Yugoslavia and the surge of ir...

Today, all the basic concepts we use to describe the existing conflict - "fight against terror", "democracy and freedom", "human rights", etc., etc. - are fa...

Slavoj Žižek, a famous Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist, lives and works in Ljubljana (Slovenia), he is the president of the Ljubljana Society for...