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zizek poster

Left Forum, along with The Brecht Forum and Verso Books
presents:

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
RESIST, ATTACK, UNDERMINE...
WHERE ARE WE 40 YEARS AFTER '68?

***An historic New York appearance to open LEFT FORUM 2008***

Tuesday, March 11th, 7pm, doors open at 6:30.
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue (corner of 34th street)
Proshansky Auditorium
Advance Tickets available at: www.brechtforum.org/zizek
Sliding Scale $6/$10/$15

LEFT FORUM 2008 will kick off this year with an historic talk by world-renowned philosopher, SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK, on the meaning of 1968.

LEFT FORUM 2008, "Cracks in the Edifice," will take place March 14-16 at Cooper Union in New York City. This year's speakers include intellectuals and organizers from around the world, including Naomi Klein, Tariq Ali, Grace Lee Boggs, Amy Goodman, Adam Hochschild, David Harvey, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Michael Albert, Frances Fox Piven, Mahmood Mamdani, Ed Herman, Stanley Aronowitz, Naomi Wolff, and many more.

For more information and to pre-register: www.leftforum.org

Žižek's provocative prose has challenged a generation of activists and intellectuals, and is today's most controversial public intellectual. His worktraverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history andpolitical theory, taking in film, popular culture, literature and jokes - all to provide acute analyses of the complexities of contemporary ideology as well as a serious and sophisticated philosophy. The author of over 30 books, his forthcoming In Defense of Lost Causes (Verso 2008) will be published in June.

Now the famed gadfly of the left will make a major New York City appearance on March 11th at the CUNY Graduate Center. Zizek's talk, "RESIST, ATTACK, UNDERMINE... WHERE ARE WE 40 YEARS AFTER '68?", will open this year's LEFT FORUM conference, the largest annual gathering of the US and international Left in North America.

Called the "Elvis of cultural theory" and the "greatest intellectual high since anti-Oedipus" his genre-bending style has him writing everything from reflections on Lenin's polemics to Levi blue jeans ads. Žižek's work has appeared in the The New York Times, New Yorker, The Guardian, as well as the feature length film, Žižek!. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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LEFT FORUM brings together organizers and intellectuals from across the globe to share ideas for understanding and transforming the world. We organize events throughout the year, and our annual flagship conference takes place each spring. Left Forum provides a context for the critical dialogue that is essential for a stronger Left and a more just society.

The BRECHT FORUM is a place for people who are working for social justice, equality and a new culture that puts human needs first. The Brecht Forum brings people together across social and cultural boundaries and artistic and academic disciplines to promote critical analysis, creative thinking, collaboartive projects and networking in an independent community-level environment.

VERSO BOOKS is the largest English-language radical publisher in the world. Since 1970, it has published an average of 40 titles a year on subjects ranging from philosophy and cultural studies to politics to feminism, history, and critical studies on film, art, and literature. Having quadrupled in size over the past decade, the company will continue its progress towards the mainstream of the industry without compromising its radical commitment.