A few days ago Chris sent me a video of the Slovenian sociologist/philosopher Slavoj Žižek in which he explains the value of garbage. The video fragment is part of the documentary Examined Life in which a variety of philosophers take to the streets.

After doing some research on Mr. Žižek I stumbled across a recent episode of the Dutch documentary program ‘Tegenlicht’ in Žižek is asked to comment on topicalities like the Middle Eastern conflict, the financial crisis and religious fanaticism. Žižek, being a true Marxist poses the thought that capitalism is the root of all this evil.

I also came across the documentary ‘žižek!‘ in which a video crew follows Mr. Žižek for a period of time and documents the personal side of his career as a cultural critic and anti-capitalist think tank.

Really good stuff. I enjoyed every minute of it. Have a look at the video fragment that got me hooked if you like:

In the module Beeldanalyse (Theory of images) I learned a lot about classic and contemporary philosophy in regard to media. The thinking of philosophers like Jean Baudrillard, Theodor Adorno, Martin Heidegger, Walter Ong and Walter Benjamin really opened up my view on the way media portray the world.
I found this to be a really interesting course. The module was examined by means of a written examination.