On his 75th birthday rockstar philosopher and revolutionary Slavoj Žižek joins Ash Sarkar to share what life has taught him about dialectics and death.
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst and political activist. He is International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and Eminent Scholar at Kyung-Hee University, Seoul. His previous books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Trouble in Paradise and, most recently, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight.
Ash Sarkar
Ash Sarkar is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster based in London. She is a Contributing Editor at Novara Media, where her work focuses on current affairs, popular culture, politics and social issues. Her by-lines have also appeared in The Guardian, Huffington Post UK, and The Independent amongst others. She is a frequent presence on UK broadcast media, and has appeared on Question Time, Good Morning Britain, and Radio 4’s Moral Maze. Her first book will be the forthcoming Minority Rule. Ash can be found on Twitter as @AyoCaesar.2.
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