A Marxist philosopher analyzes porn on Russian state TV. What could go wrong?
An hour long interview with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek made by Russia Today for his 70th birthday. In this documentary Žižek answers questions from the public in regards to politics and ideology, gender and sex, philosophy and psychoanalysis, hardcore pornography and sexual liberation in the West, in his usual style of polemics and comedy.
Writing
Questions somehow more unhinged than the answers
Direction
RT's bizarre choice to platform him at all
Director
Artur Sokolov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
RT's patronage of Žižek exemplifies the very ideological capture he critiques—state media platforming anti-capitalist voices to neutralize them.
Žižek's 70th birthday gift to himself: explaining why gangbangs reveal Hegelian dialectics on a network sanctioned for election interference.
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