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NEW TITLE: THE YEAR OF DREAMING DANGEROUSLY By SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK Published: 10th September 2012 -------------------------------- EVENTS IN LONDON Sunday, 21st October 12pm, Hackney Picture House Following his first collaboration with filmmaker Sophie Fiennes, THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA, Slavoj Žižek has now been reunited with the director for a sequel, THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY, which will be screened as this year’s Debate Gala as part of the BFI London Film Festival. We’re thrilled he’s agreed to join us for this ‘in conversation’ event. Never predicable, it would be a mistake to anticipate the subject matter or the direction Žižek’s conversation will take. For more information and to book tickets visit: The Pervert's Guide to Ideology at the BFI London Film Festival<https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=90CDFFD4-E40D-42F6-B597-BD2EFB57090B> Saturday 24th November Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, SE1 8XX After his sold out appearance in Royal Festival Hall in 2010, Slavoj Žižek returns to Southbank Centre to discuss 'The Year of Dreaming Dangerously', his analysis of the riots and revolutions that swept the world last year. As part of the series on Modernism, Žižek discusses how these events augur a new political reality - fragments of a utopian future lying dormant in the present. He considers the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street within the rapidly shifting world order before taking questions from the audience. For more information and to book tickets visit: The Southbank Centre<http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/literature-spoken-word/tickets/slavoj-zizek-69458> Tuesday 27th November 2-4pm, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London, WC1E 7HX Public Lecture: Slavoj Zizek - 'Buddhism Denaturalized' For booking information visit: Eventbrite<https://szizek.eventbrite.co.uk/> -------------------------------- The renowned philosopher finds a utopian future in worldwide protests. Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired the world’s racist populists in places as far apart as Hungary and Arizona, achieving a horrific consummation in the actions of mass murderer Anders Breivik. The subterranean work of dissatisfaction continues. Rage is building, and a new wave of revolts and disturbances will follow. Why? Because the events of 2011 augur a new political reality. These are limited, distorted—sometimes even perverted—fragments of a utopian future lying dormant in the present. --------------------------------- Praise for SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: “Superstar messiah of the new left” OBSERVER “An intellectual whirlwind” DAILY TELEGRAPH “A superstar of Elvis-like magnitude–a bogglingly dynamic whirlwind of brainpower.” DAZED & CONFUSED --------------------------------- SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His other books from Verso include LIVING IN THE END TIMES, FIRST AS TRAGEDY, THEN AS FARCE, IN DEFENSE OF LOST CAUSES, THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY, THE FRAGILE ABSOLUTE: OR, WHY IS THE CHRISTIAN LEGACY WORTH FIGHTING FOR, THE TICKLISH SUBJECT, THE PLAGUES OF FANTASIES, FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO, THE INDIVISIBLE REMAINDER, WELCOME TO THE DESERT OF THE REAL,IRAQ: THE BORROWED KETTLE, and DID SOMEBODY SAY TOTALITARIANISM? He has also appeared in the films ŽIŽEK!, EXAMINED LIFE, THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA and most recently its sequel, THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY. --------------------------------- ISBN: 9781781680421 $14.95 / £7.00 / $16.00CAN Paperback / 142 pages ----------------------------------- For more information about THE YEAR OF DREAMING DANGEROUSLY, or to buy the book visit: http://www.versobooks.com/books/1161-the-year-of-dreaming-dangerously --------------------------------- Visit Verso’s website for information on our upcoming events, new reviews and publications and special offers: http://www.versobooks.com Sign up for the Verso mailing list: https://www.versobooks.com/users/sign_up Become a fan of Verso on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Verso-Books/205847279448577 And get updates on Twitter too! http://twitter.com/VersoBooks ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
