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Skirball Talks: Slavoj Žižek

From the Marxist standpoint, “Communism” refers to the multiple versions of our commons (the commons of nature, the commons of our biogenetic inheritance, the commons of our intellectual substance) which are all threatened by today’s global capitalism. Perhaps the most important version of our commons  is the world-wide digital grid which more and more controls and regulates our lives. How can a new emancipatory movement fight for the public control of the digital commons? In preparing and executing the October Revolution, Trotsky showed us the way when he focused on the seizure of power over the technical and material base of a state (electricity, railways, phone, etc.). How can we apply this Trotsky’s insight to our contemporary predicament?

Slavoj Žižek, Ph.D., is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a visiting professor at a number of American Universities (Columbia, Princeton, New School for Social Research, New York University, University of Michigan). He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy in Ljubljana studying Psychoanalysis. He also studied at the University of Paris. Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and Marxist social analyst. He is the author of  The Indivisible Remainder, The Sublime Object of Ideology,  The Metastases of Enjoyment,  Looking Awry: Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, and  The Plague of Fantasies, and The Ticklish Subject. His latest publications are  Disparities, and  Antigone (both at Bloomsbury Press, London).

Held weekly every Monday at 6:30pm during the academic terms,  Skirball Talks hosts visionaries from the worlds of politics, the arts, sciences, academia, and more. This event is free and open to the public.

Presented as part of NYU Skirball’s “On Your Marx” festival, in celebration of Karl Marx’s 200th birthday.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Department of German and Deutsches Haus at NYU.











When: Mon., Oct. 22, 2018 at 6:30 pm
Where: NYU Skirball Center
566 LaGuardia Pl.
212-998-4941
Price: Free
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From the Marxist standpoint, “Communism” refers to the multiple versions of our commons (the commons of nature, the commons of our biogenetic inheritance, the commons of our intellectual substance) which are all threatened by today’s global capitalism. Perhaps the most important version of our commons  is the world-wide digital grid which more and more controls and regulates our lives. How can a new emancipatory movement fight for the public control of the digital commons? In preparing and executing the October Revolution, Trotsky showed us the way when he focused on the seizure of power over the technical and material base of a state (electricity, railways, phone, etc.). How can we apply this Trotsky’s insight to our contemporary predicament?

Slavoj Žižek, Ph.D., is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a visiting professor at a number of American Universities (Columbia, Princeton, New School for Social Research, New York University, University of Michigan). He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy in Ljubljana studying Psychoanalysis. He also studied at the University of Paris. Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and Marxist social analyst. He is the author of  The Indivisible Remainder, The Sublime Object of Ideology,  The Metastases of Enjoyment,  Looking Awry: Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, and  The Plague of Fantasies, and The Ticklish Subject. His latest publications are  Disparities, and  Antigone (both at Bloomsbury Press, London).

Held weekly every Monday at 6:30pm during the academic terms,  Skirball Talks hosts visionaries from the worlds of politics, the arts, sciences, academia, and more. This event is free and open to the public.

Presented as part of NYU Skirball’s “On Your Marx” festival, in celebration of Karl Marx’s 200th birthday.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Department of German and Deutsches Haus at NYU.

Buy tickets/get more info now