Politics – BIG OTHER

Slavoj Žižek on Writing, Words, Fiction, Politics, and More.

Happy birthday, Slavoj Žižek! 71, today! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Words are never ‘only words’;…

Happy birthday, Ralph Ellison! Here are some quotes from his writing. “The act of writing requires a constant…

Happy birthday, Gilles Deleuze! Here are some quotes from the writer: “[T]o write is to struggle and resist;…

Happy birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.! “I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the…

Happy birthday, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o! 82, today! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Words are the food,…

Happy birthday, C. L. R. James! Here are some quotes from the historian: “In politics, all abstract terms…

Happy birthday, Guy Debord! Here are some quotes from the theorist, philosopher, and filmmaker: “The more you consume,…

Happy birthday, Noam Chomsky! 91, today! Here are some quotes from the linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic,…

Happy birthday, Arundhati Roy! 58, today! Here are some quotes from the author. “For reasons that I don’t…

Happy birthday, Chris Hedges! 63, today. Here are some quotes from the writer. “There will be rebels. They…