Slavoj Žižek
Born: 1949-03-21 in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Known For: Acting
Biography
A Slovenian continental philosopher and critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis. Žižek is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a professor at the European Graduate School. He has been a visiting professor at, among others, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, London Consortium, Princeton, New York University, The New School, the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Irvine and the University of Michigan. He is currently the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana. Žižek uses examples from popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and uses Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian philosophy and Marxist economic criticism to interpret and speak extensively on immediately current social phenomena.
Filmography
2024
- Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek as himself
2023
- Deep Thought as self
2021
- Great Minds as Self
- Bliss as Slavoj Žižek
- Alice, Through the Looking as Self
- An Apology for Modernity as Himself
2020
- Antigone, How Dare We! as Himself
2019
2018
- Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk as Self
- Turn On ... (Original Concept)
2017
- Risk as Self
2016
- The Swap as Self (voice)
- Houston, We Have a Problem! as Self
- The New Man as Self
2015
- Hyperstition as Self
2013
- Balkan Spirit as Self - Philosopher
- There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People as Himself (archive footage)
2012
- Catastroika as Self
- The Pervert's Guide to Ideology as Self - Host / Philosopher
2011
- Marx Reloaded as Self
2009
- Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution as Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'
- Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait as Self
2008
- Q&A as Self - Panellist
- Examined Life as Self
- Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy
2007
- The Possibility of Hope as Self
2006
- The Pervert's Guide to Cinema as Self - Host / Philosopher
2005
- Žižek! as Self
2004
2003
1997
- Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin as Himself
- The Old and the New as Himself
1996
- Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself as Self
- Predictions of Fire as Self
1993
- Laibach – A Film from Slovenia as Himself
- Bravo: Laibach in Film as Himself
1980
- Newsnight as Self