Screening: Zizek!

On Monday the 15th at 7:00pm, I'll be showing this film along with snacks and light refreshment in the grad studios.

Zizek!
Riding the coattails of one man's eccentric personality, filmmaker Astra Taylor paints a dizzying portrait of renowned Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who embodies his reputation as "the wild man of theory." Frantically trailing Zizek on his travels around the world -- from New York and Buenos Aires to his hometown of Ljubljana -- Taylor captures his analysis of everything in his path, including the innovative thinker's take on himself.

*From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Slavoj Žižek (pronounced: [slaˈvɔj ʒiˈʒɛk]) (born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian sociologist, postmodern philosopher, and cultural critic. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia). He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party Liberal Democracy of Slovenia for Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia (an auxiliary institution, abolished in 1992).

Žižek is well known for his use of the works of 20th century French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. He writes on countless topics including fundamentalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock. In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País he jokingly described himself as an "orthodox Lacanian Stalinist".[1]