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Slavoj Zizek

Book Shop Window, Paris

Bob R Apr 16, 2017 0

Today's Pic du Jour was snapped exactly five years ago during a (mostly) Latin Quarter Bookstore Stroll in Paris, quite likely the only time you'll find Hannah Arendt and Slavoj Zizek in the same snapshot today. Yes, this is pretty much my favorite kind of window shopping. ~~ For the record: today's Pic du Jour, the site's 1,199th straight,…

Zizek’s Trump Endorsement. Kind of.

Bob R Nov 6, 2016 0

That is, if saying that a Trump victory as "a means of disrupting the American center-left consensus" is your…

Pic du Jour

35 Minutes in Central Oslo

Bob R Jul 3, 2016 6

A Six-Snap Slice of the Norwegian capital.

European Union

Žižek on the Opportunity European Disorder Presents Post-Brexit

Bob R Jul 3, 2016 2

A good read for those looking to expand the current narrative fueling the EU's existential crisis, on the opportunity to create a truly democratic project "that will break the vicious cycle of EU technocracy and nationalist populism.”

‘Europe is Kaput’ – Žižek, Varoufakis and Assange on the Links…

Bob R Nov 25, 2015 5

If you have two hours to spare sometime over the next few days (and I know that my friends in the US will), here's…

Pussy Riot Calypso

Bob R Sep 11, 2012 0

Was very nice to see this simple act of Pussy Riot solidarity in a window display in a Zurich shop. In case you…

Stealth mobile street shooting – lesson three (+ Zizek)

Bob R Jan 20, 2012 2

Today's pic(k) isn't very stealth, but it does fairly adequately describe the gray, wet day today in Slovenia's capital. I shot this young woman just a few bridges upstream from where Slovenian stand-up philosopher Slavoj Zizek succinctly points out where Central Europe ends and the Balkans begin. This woman obviously has no idea what awaits on…

Zizek at #OccupyWallStreet open forum + a Foxnews.com poll

Bob R Oct 10, 2011 0

Here are a couple of videos of Slovenian philosopher and critic Slavoj Žižek's talk at the #OccupyWallstreet open…

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