Slavoj Zizek, "Where Are We 40 Years After '68?"

Slavoj Žižek --- "RESIST, ATTACK, UNDERMINE... WHERE ARE WE 40 YEARS AFTER '68"
Tuesday, March 11th 6:30pm

CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue (corner of 34th street)
Proshansky Auditorium
[B, D, F, V, N, R, Q to 34th St.-Herald Sq.; #6 to 33rd St.; #2, 3 to 34th St. (at 7th Ave) --t.]

"Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation." -New Yorker

"Unafraid of confrontation and with a near limitless grasp of pop symbolism." -The Times

"Žižek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability." -Publishers Weekly

Slavoj Žižek is today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture, literature and jokes - all to provide acute analyses of the complexities of contemporary ideology as well as a serious and sophisticated philosophy. The author of over 30 books, his forthcoming "In Defense of Lost Causes" (Verso 2008) will be published in June.

Slajov Žižek's provocative prose has challenged a generation of activists and intellectuals. Now the famed gadfly of the left will make a major New York City appearance on March 11th at the CUNY Graduate Center. Zizek's talk--"RESIST, ATTACK, UNDERMINE... WHERE ARE WE 40 YEARS AFTER '68?"--will open this year's Left Forum conference, the largest gathering in North America of the U.S. and international Left.

Called the "Elvis of cultural theory" and the "greatest intellectual high since anti-Oedipus" his genre-bending style has him writing everything from reflections on Lenin's polemics to Levi blue jeans ads. Zizek's work his appeared in the The New York Times, New Yorker, The Guardian, as well as Astrid Taylor's feature length film, Zizek!. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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