Tuesday, May 02, 2006
anyone fancy going to hear Slavoj Zizek?
Against Human Rights: A Lecture by Slavoj Zizek
Talks:
Wed 18 May 2005.
A lecture arguing that the enforcement of huam rights through military and political intervention only serves to preserve those victims as victims, and prepare the way for continued violations of human rights
Human rights are wrong, and should be resisted at all costs.
Slavoj Zizek, social theorist and lacanian psychoanalyst, has established himself as one of the most trenchant and perceptive critics of Western political culture at work in the world today. In the sumptuous Great Hall at the Royal Courts of Justice, Zizek will argue that, in their exclusive focus on the prevention of suffering, the Western doctrine of human rights evacuates politics and retreats back to the terrain of good and evil. By denying the political subjectivity of its victims, the enforcement of human rights through military and political intervention only serves to preserve those victims as victims, and prepare the way for continued violations of human rights.
The Great Hall, The Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand. (Nearest tubes are Temple, Holborn or Chancery Lane)
Wed 18 May 19:00 Outside Venue (call Box Office for details)
Full Price : £8.
Concession : £7.
ICA Members : £6.
Talks:
Wed 18 May 2005.
A lecture arguing that the enforcement of huam rights through military and political intervention only serves to preserve those victims as victims, and prepare the way for continued violations of human rights
Human rights are wrong, and should be resisted at all costs.
Slavoj Zizek, social theorist and lacanian psychoanalyst, has established himself as one of the most trenchant and perceptive critics of Western political culture at work in the world today. In the sumptuous Great Hall at the Royal Courts of Justice, Zizek will argue that, in their exclusive focus on the prevention of suffering, the Western doctrine of human rights evacuates politics and retreats back to the terrain of good and evil. By denying the political subjectivity of its victims, the enforcement of human rights through military and political intervention only serves to preserve those victims as victims, and prepare the way for continued violations of human rights.
The Great Hall, The Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand. (Nearest tubes are Temple, Holborn or Chancery Lane)
Wed 18 May 19:00 Outside Venue (call Box Office for details)
Full Price : £8.
Concession : £7.
ICA Members : £6.
