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The Slovenian philosopher divides opinion over his often-contradictory viewpoints

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Theatre in Ireland this year was bookended by two crises, a state of play mirrored by the work

Why there will never be a cure for irrationality

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An anti-stand-up show that could be very good indeed

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The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology

The pervert’s guide to Slavoj Zizek

Firebrand Slovenian academic Slavoj Zizek has spent his entire career dismantling culture and exposing the banality of conventional wisdom. He’s delivering his splenetic opinions again in Sophie Fiennes’s ‘The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology’. “Life is shit,” he says. “But it’s relatively okay today.”