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The Division of labour work explores…

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On Zizek

Time: May 21, 2013 from 5pm to 7pm
Location: University of Surrey
Street: Nodus Centre
City/Town: Guildford, Surrey
Website or Map: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/files…
Event Type: seminar
Organized By: Laura Cull
Latest Activity: May 16, 2013

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University of Surrey School of Arts Graduate Seminars:

Interdisciplinary Engagements with Philosophy

 

ON ŽIŽEK

 

Tuesday 21st May, 5-6.30pm

 

in the SEEDpod

Nodus Centre,

Stag Hill Campus, University of Surrey

 

Introduced by Prof. Peter Boenisch (Dance/Theatre)

 

ALL WELCOME

 

Set Reading

 

1. Slavoj Žižek (1993), Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel and the Critique of Ideology. Durham: Duke University Press. Ch I.1, “I or He or It (The Thing) Which Thinks”, p. 9-44

2. Slavoj Žižek (2012), Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism. London and New York: Verso. Chapter 10, “Objects, Objects Everywhere”, p. 649-714.

 

Further Reading – The Same but Different

Slavoj Žižek (1991/2002), For They Know Not What to Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor. 2nd edition. London and New York: Verso. Foreword to the Second Edition: Enjoyment within the Limits of Reason Alone.

Slavoj Žižek (1999) The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology. London and New York: Verso. Ch 2., “The Hegelian Ticklish Subject”, p. 70-124

 

All staff and postgraduate students are warmly invited to attend and participate.

 

All participants are kindly requested to familiarise themselves with the texts prior to the sessions.

 

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