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Institute for Public Affairs public lecture
Critique of ideology should not begin with the critique of reality, but with the critique of our dreams. As Herbert Marcuse put it back in the 1960s, freedom (from ideological constraints, from the predominant mode of dreaming) is the condition of liberation. If we only change reality in order to realize our dreams, and do not change these dreams themselves, we sooner or later regress to old reality. The first act of liberation is therefore for us to become ruthless censors of our dreams.
Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, critique of ideology and art, including Less Than Nothing, Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce and The Year of Dreaming Dangerously. This event marks the publication of his new book, Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism.
Purna Sen (@Purna_Sen) is Deputy Director of the Institute of Public Affairs at the LSE.
The Institute of Public Affairs (@LSEPubAffairs) is one of the world's leading centres of public policy. We aim to debate and address some of the major issues of our time, whether international or national, through our established teaching programmes, our research and our highly innovative public-engagement initiatives.
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11 November 2014 at 6:30 pm |
Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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Sheikh Zayed Theatre (New Academic Building, LSE) |
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London School of Economics & Political Science |
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FREE |
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This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required, only one ticket per person can be requested. Members of the public, LSE alumni, LSE students and LSE staff can request one ticket via the online ticket request form which will be live on the weblisting from around 6pm on Monday 3 November until at least 12noon on Tuesday 4 November. If at 12noon we have received more requests than there are tickets available, the line will be closed, and tickets will be allocated on a random basis to those requests received. If we have received fewer requests than tickets available, the ticket line will stay open until all tickets have been allocated. Event weblisting: http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2014/11/20141111t1830vSZT.aspx |
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