• We can’t escape the trap of desire, but we can approach that trap with greater poise

• Turns out I have a similar approach to writing to Slavoj Žižek. Unsure how I feel about this.

• The existentialist Lacan

• Walking in the air

• The living dead of obsessive habit

• Our past changes as our future unfolds

• Love is giving something you don’t have to someone who doesn’t want it

• On not getting what we want

• On losing what we never possessed

• Fantasy tells me what I am to my others

• Trauma as a genre for understanding the present

• What does it mean to be human after Covid-19?

• The Beautiful Soul of the Critical Academic

• Post-Pandemic Hedonism: Thoughts on Mark Fisher’s Final Book

• Physical distancing and intensified social connectivity

• The possibility of a digital police state: Hegel, Fichte, Mejias, Couldry, Bauman and Sloterdijk

• The importance of what we don’t (and can’t) say

• Žižek on asexuality

• Žižek on Covid temporalities

• Slavoj Žižek’s surprisingly earnest and rather good advice about adapting to lockdown

• The Utopian Dystopia of Lockdown

• The abandoned city

• Panic and reflexivity

• Covid-19 and the impossibility of floating freely in our undisturbed balance

• The pleasures which superstar professors have access too

• The mundane reality of neo-fascism

• The ideology of how ‘the world really is’

• Reconciling the psychoanalytical and the reflexive 

• The fragile crowd 

• The rightward drift of Slavoj Žižek

• Zizek on the impossibility of anarchism 

• How to move further from Mandela without becoming Mugabe

• Super-ego individualization

• The Psychoanalytics of Temporising

• At the risk of sounding obsessive: Žižek is now releasing new books monthly

• Life in the accelerated academy: how it’s possible for Žižek to publish 55 books in 14 years

• Slavoj Žižek (2014) “Why I Hate Snow and Office Hours”

• The slow death of originality? Thoughts on the self-plagiarisation of Slavoj Žižek

• The Phenomenology of Reading and the Rhetoric of Theorists

• Julian Assange in conversation with Slavoj Zizek

• Would Benjamin have dismissed Žižek as a hack?

• Does Žižek take himself as seriously as other people do? Idolatry, activism and the academic left

• The Empty ‘Posturing’ of Žižek and Lacan?

• “We all know bankers are greedy bastards!” Ideological dimensions to the financial crisis