Tag: political despair

• Slavoj Žižek: Signs from the Future – How to Academy and Chan Centre Insights

  November 14, 2026

  Erudite and comic, ironic and profound, philosopher Slavoj Žižek has travelled into territory where few of us dare to tread – and aged 77 he shows no signs of becoming… more ›

• Slavoj Žižek: “Only when you are really desperate, you act”

  October 24, 2026

  Newsnight speaks to philosopher Slavoj Žižek about his new book ‘Signs from the Future’, Donald Trump’s political legacy, his case for “leftist authoritarianism” and why “we are not yet hopeless… more ›

• LARB Radio Hour: Hyperpolitics

  March 27, 2026

  Listen: https://ift.tt/K80LIoc In this special episode, Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman discuss the current political quagmire we find ourselves in through the frame of Anton Jäger's Hyperpolitics. Moving from the 1990s… more ›