[Reader-list] Žižek, Rancière, Foucault, Bourdieu…

Fri Dec 4 21:25:45 IST 2009

Dear Anand,
Thanks for posting this immensely valuable information.
Can you/anyone else  please figure out the formalities if any, for
entry/pass for these events?
(Venu)

2009/12/3 Navayana Publishing <navayana at gmail.com>:
> Navayana presents
>
> Slavoj Žižek
>
> Navayana is delighted to present “the Elvis of cultural theory”, the
> academic “rock star”—Slavoj Žižek. The author of over 40 books, many of them
> top sellers, the Slovenian Marxist philosopher and cultural critic will tour
> India from 2 to 9 Jan 2010 on the occasion of the launch of his latest work,
> First as Tragedy, Then as Farce—a bravura analysis of the current global
> crisis. His books deal with topics ranging from philosophy and Freudian and
> Lacanian psychoanalysis, to theology, film, opera and radical politics. He
> was a candidate for, and nearly won, the Presidency of Slovenia in the first
> democratic elections after the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1990. According to
> a profile in the New Yorker, Slovenia has a “reputation disproportionately
> large for its size due to the work of Slavoj Žižek.”
>
> In the first Navayana annual lecture series, Žižek shall deliver two talks
> in Delhi (4 and 5 Jan), and one each in Hyderabad (7 Jan) and Kochi (9 Jan).
> Besides, there shall be screenings of films on and by him, and discussions
> of his work as pre-event shows. In Kerala, the Malayalam translation of
> Žižek’s classic, The Sublime Object of Ideology, will be launched during his
> visit.
>
> First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
> Paperback   B Format   156 pages   Rs 200
>
> “The title of this book is intended as an elementary IQ test for the reader:
> if the first association it generates is the vulgar anti-communist cliché
> —“You are right—today, after the tragedy of twentieth-century
> totalitarianism, all the talk about a return to communism can only be
> farcical!”—then I sincerely advise you to stop here. Indeed, the book should
> be forcibly confiscated from you, since it deals with an entirely different
> tragedy and farce, namely, the two events which mark the beginning and the
> end of the first decade of the twenty-first century: the attacks of
> September 11, 2001 and the financial meltdown of 2008. We should note the
> similarity of President Bush’s language in his addresses to the American
> people after 9/11 and after the financial collapse: they sounded very much
> like two versions of the same speech. Both times Bush evoked the threat to
> the American way of life and the need to take fast and decisive action to
> cope with the danger. Both times he called for the partial suspension of
> American values (guarantees of individual freedom, market capitalism) in
> order to save these very same values. From whence comes this similarity?”
>
> Slavoj Žižek declares: “You’ve had your anti-communist fun, and you are
> pardoned for it—time to get serious once again!”
>
>
>
> The Žižek India Tour Schedule
>
>
> 24 Dec 2009. 3 p.m. Screenings
> The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, in 3 parts. 150 mins
>
> Followed by “Žižek!”, 71 mins.
> Sarai-CSDS. 29 Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi
>
>
>
> 2 Jan 2010. 7 p.m. Screening
> Žižek! A feature documentary directed by Astra Taylor, 71 mins.
> Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
>
> 4 Jan 2010. 5 p.m. Lecture
> “Ideology in the Post-ideological World: The Case of Hollywood”
> Sarai-CSDS. 29 Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi
>
> 5 Jan 2010. 7 p.m. Lecture
> “Tragedy and Farce”
> Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
>
>
>
> 7 Jan 2010. 11 a.m. Lecture
> “Capitalism and Particular Life-Worlds: In Defense of Universalism”
> ICSSR Auditorium, English & Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
>
>
>
> 9 Jan 2010. 5 p.m. Lecture and Panel Discussion
> “Whither Left?”
> Town Hall, Kochi.
>
>
>
>
>
> The Žižek Media Kit
>
> Watch Žižek on BBC News Hardtalk, 24 Nov 2009:
> http://versouk.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/bbc-news-hardtalk-slavoj-zizek-communism-a-total-failure/
>
> Profile in New Yorker: http://www.lacan.com/ziny.htm
>
> Terry Eagleton on Žižek in Times Literary Supplement:
> http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3800980.ece
>
> A key to the key ideas of Žižek: http://www.lacan.com/zizekchro1.htm
>
> A comprehensive Bibliography of Žižek:
> http://www.lacan.com/bibliographyzi.htm
>
> Brief summaries of his key books: http://www.lacan.com/zizekchro2.htm
>
>  Žižek! The Movie (to be screened at India Habitat Centre on 2 Jan 2009):
> http://www.zizekthemovie.com/
>
> The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (to be screened at Sarai, CSDS, 24 Dec 2009):
> http://www.thepervertsguide.com/press.html
>
> To download pictures of Žižek, click here:
> http://zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=zizek&mode=downloads
>
>
> Along with Žižek’s title (First as Tragedy, Then as Farce), under the Other
> Headings series Navayana launches affordable South Asian editions of Jacques
> Rancière’s The Future of the Image (Rs 200), Michel Foucault’s Abnormal:
> Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–75 (Rs 490), and Pierre Bourdieu’s
> Political Interventions: Social Science and Political Action (Rs 490).
>
> For details and further information on the Žižek tour contact S. Anand at
> anand at navayana.org
>
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