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

Sun Dec 6 15:01:38 IST 2009

Dear Venu,

No passes or formalities, just arrive early to ensure that you get  
seats.

best

Shuddha

On 04-Dec-09, at 9:25 PM, Venugopalan K M wrote:

> 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
>>
>> --
>> www.navayana.org
>>
>> Navayana
>> 155, Second Floor
>> Shahpur Jat
>> New Delhi 110049
>>
>> Landline: +91-11-26494795
>> Mobile: +91-9971433117
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