Slavoj Zizek - too late to awaken: counting down to doomsday

John Hillman November 2, 2023
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Dr John Hillman is an academic leader, researcher, writer, educator and image-maker engaged in the interdisciplinary areas of film, media, photography, image, technology and visual culture. He is currently Associate Professor and Head of Film, Media and English at the University of West London. His interests lie in philosophical approaches to contemporary culture and understanding how images and media technologies shape our experience. His research is interdisciplinary in form and covers the social, political and philosophical dimensions of contemporary experience. What unifies his interests is the exploration of how theory can enrich and offer new insights to creative practice and lived experience. His approach is distinctive in its foregrounding of theoretical ideas and in how it attempts, not to explain phenomena through theory, but to elucidate theory as it appears within contemporary culture. This channel is a mix of content most of which relates to critical theory.

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Slavoj Zizek's talk "Too late to awaken: counting down to doomsday" was recorded at the Royal Institution in London on a wet Wednesday evening, 1st November 2023. In it, he discusses Israel and Palestine with occasional references to his book. Last week Zizek gave a talk in Germany where he was challenged on his views on the conflict in Gaza, he clarifies his position a little more in this talk. The venue, needless to say, sustained all its historical resonance. The event was full. It's good and important that people still attend these talks.

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