Zizek

His point, riffing on Slavoj Zizek, is that we should preserve our visceral horror at the mistreatment of others, even if the pattern of our concern is not strictly rational or consistent.

One Waterboarding Is a Tragedy; A Million Is a Statistic 2009

Zizek is a believer in the Revolution at a time when almost nobody, not even on the left, thinks that such a cataclysm is any longer possible or even desirable.

Žižek: Fascist? « Gerry Canavan 2008

"[Slavoj] Zizek is typically, and willfully, perverse in his praise of 300 (found via Dejan)," writes Steven Shaviro.

GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 4/30. 2007

Perhaps, "tension" is the word Zizek uses to avoid saying "and this results in the failure of the democratic form insofar as it is realized in its administrative-regulatory content."

I cite 2009

In the visual arts, the denaturing of what were once passionate and dangerous icons has become commonplace, so that emblems of evil are transformed into perverse fun, harmless but very profitable statements of post-ideological camp; and there is a kind of intellectual equivalent of this development in Zizek’s work.

Žižek: Fascist? « Gerry Canavan 2008

The systemic horror Zizek is talking about is right there if he cares to look for it — it’s not what directly drives the key events of the plot, but it provides the backdrop against which those events make sense.

The Films of Others 2007

Recall Zizek's discussion of the disintegration of communism in Eastern Europe.

I cite 2009

We could also place The Polymath in a series of recent "intellectual profile" documentaries such as Zizek!

Amygdala 2009

With its borrowed Philip Glass score and ironic track-suit and referee costumes, Devotion becomes a system of hieroglyphics complex enough to satisfy everyone from Aristotle to Zizek.

Selby Drummond: Half-way Between Gesture and Thought: Choreographer Sarah Michelson's "Devotion" Selby Drummond 2011

With its borrowed Philip Glass score and ironic track-suit and referee costumes, Devotion becomes a system of hieroglyphics complex enough to satisfy everyone from Aristotle to Zizek.

Selby Drummond: Half-way Between Gesture and Thought: Choreographer Sarah Michelson's "Devotion" Selby Drummond 2011