Ralph Miliband Series on The Future of Global Capitalism
Date: Wednesday 25 November 2009
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj Zizek argues that the neoliberalism died twice: first as a political doctrine in the tragedy of the attacks of 9/11; then its farcical collapse as an economic theory when the meltdown at the end of 2008 brought an end to the utopia of global market capitalism. Has this crisis now offered a vital opening for the left to seize the reins of politics and the state?
Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana. This lecture launches Mr Zizek's new book First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
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