Slavoj Žižek masterclasses, and Jacques Lacan lecture (via P e r ∙ C r u c e m ∙ a d ∙ L u c e m)

The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities has been hosting some ‘Masterclasses’ with Slavoj Žižek. The three talks are available for download here:

• The Idea of Communism and its Actuality (plus Q&A) (23rd March 2011)
• Lacan and Sexual Difference (plus Q&A) (25th March 2011)
• The Limits of Hegel (26th March 2011)

Need more Žižek? Here is an older talk:

• Violence Revisited (plus Q&A) (12 November 2010)

Plus, here’s an interesting lecture (1971) by, and interviews with, Jacques Lacan in which he ruminates about language, death, faith, life, psychoanalysis, love, alienation, and paranoia:

Jacques Lacan Parle (Speaks) from dd on Vimeo.

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via P e r ∙ C r u c e m ∙ a d ∙ L u c e m

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