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Alright, welcome back to Žižek & So On. This week continues our new series on the systematic aspects of Žižekās thought, & we're bringing you another PATREON SHORT SESSION.
This episode is a special one because we managed to get a copy of Žižekās Masters Thesis from the early 1970ās which became his second book (Znak, oznaÄitelj, pismo) published in 1976.
So once again we begin at the beginningā¦again, looking at repetition in Zizekās oeuvre with his initial turn to French structuralism with the help of Mladen Dolar.
Weāre talking Žizekās thesis defence where he had to outline his relationship to Marx, why the split precedes the whole, why animals canāt wear masks, and universal signifiers today.
The European Graduate School are running a Leading Thinkers Course on Slavoj Žižek and I know a lot of our listeners are attending the course which is exciting and a big thanks to all of you who have been reaching out to us over the last few weeks of the course!
The course runs for ten weeks or so with Frank Ruda, Mladen Dolar, Adrian Johnston, Robert Pfaller, Zahi Zalloua, Dany Nobus, Alenka ZupanÄiÄ, Berta Perez, and at the end Žižekā¦onā¦himselfā¦.so weāre going to be doing these episodes alongside the course.
Up next is Berta M Perez and her reading of Žiżek and the Dialectical Gaze!
Short sessions, variable length sessions, however you wanna put it, in these episodes weāll wrap them up because of something that is said, rather than the tyranny of the clock.
See you in Paris,
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