‘The Poetico-Military Complex, or, The Actuality of Plato’s Critique of Poetry’ by Slavoj Žižek

Recording of a paper presentation by Žižek on 3rd July 2009 at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Slavoj Žižek is a Philosopher and Psychoanalytic social theorist. He is Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana; Professor at the School of Law and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London; Distinguished Scholar at the Kyung Hee University, Seoul; and Visiting Professor at the German Department, New York University. His field of work comprises Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, dialectical-materialist metaphysical interpretations of German Idealism and Marxian critique of ideology. His more than sixty books in English have been widely translated. His latest publications include 'Pandemic!' & 'Pandemic! 2', 'Hegel in a Wired Brain', 'Sex and the Failed Absolute', 'Like A Thief In Broad Daylight', 'Reading Marx', 'Incontinence of the Void', 'The Day After the Revolution', 'Heaven in Disorder' and 'Reading Hegel'.

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