The secrets of the Egyptians were secrets also for the Egyptians themselves. Slavoj Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes...
I have just read a very good article by Slavoj Žižek in the London Review of Books: Berlusconi in Tehran. By “very good” I mean that he, as usual, displays an astounding amount knowledge t...
To illustrate how a writer can write something unintentionally that later fits into a broader context, I’ll look no further than my own essay that I wrote at Cornerhouse in July 2007: “I c...
I have recently been added as a Flickr contact by someone who was making pictures of Liverpool on exactly the same day – 18th of December – when I visited the 2008 European Capital of Cult...
Before the end of this week (before Friday 13th, that is) you have the chance to vote for the 13th member of the Shakespeare Hall of Fame. The names range from Sarah Bernhardt to David Tennant, with t...
WebProNews is currently taking on Digg.com showcasing how a story submitted by an “ordinary mortal” is ignored by the majority, whilst exactly the same submission by one of the elite Digge...
A rather unpleasant update as per 13 Dec 2008: I have just found out that the English version of the video which was in this post has been taken down on YouTube for “the violation of Community G...
When I was little, on the 7th November my mother and I once went to see my gran’s sister. Back in 1980s, this day was celebrated as the day of the Great October Socialist Revolution. In the even...
I pondered a lot on the problem I have with identifying myself or other people in one way or another. The generic “identity-search”, to which we are so often subjected these days, is usual...
We’ve had it all: Slavoj Zizek’s live talk during his “tour of the North”, the audio extracts I used in my account of the lecture, there were materials at the Subaltern Studies...