www.egs.edu Slavoj Zizek talking about the explicit, truth, rules, politics, Mel Gibson, society, race, racism, antisemitism; lecturing and developing a psychoanalysis of culture and societies. Public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2006, Slavoj Zizek. Slavoj Zizek, a Slovenian sociologist, postmodern philosopher, and cultural critic is a professor at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana and at the European Graduate School EGS who uses popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and the theory of Jacques Lacan to explain politics and popular culture. He was born in 1949 in Ljubljana, Slovenia where he lives to this day but he has lectured at universities around the world. He was analysed by Jacques Alain Miller, Jacques Lacan’s son in law. His research focuses on Karl Marx, Hegel and Schellingfundamentalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock. He has published many books and translations in several languages. He is the author of The Sublime Object of Ideology, 1989, Beyond Discourse Analysis (a part in Ernesto Laclau’s New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time), London: Verso. 1990, For They Know Not What They Do, London: Verso. 1991, Looking Awry, MIT Press. Enjoy Your Symptom!, Routledge …

Ever wanted to sing “Never Would Have Made It” by Marvin Sapp? Well, Here’s Your Chance! This is the instrumental to this awesome song. Sing Away… lyrics: Never would have made it, never could have made it, without you I would have lost it all, but now I see how you were there for me And I can say Never would have made it, Never could have made it, Without you I would have lost it all, But I now how I see how you were there for me and I can say I’m stronger, I’m wiser, I’m better, much better, When I look back over all you brought me thru. I can see that you were the one that I held on to And I never Chorus Never would have made it Oh I never could have made it Chorus Never could have made it without you Oh I would have lost it all, oh but now I see how you were there for me I never Chorus – Never would have made it No, I never Chorus – Never could have made it without you I would have lost my mind a long time ago, if it had not been for you. I am stronger Chorus I am stronger I am wiser Chorus I am wiser Now I am better Chorus I am better So much better Chorus I am better I made it thru my storm and my test because you were there to carry me thru my mess I am stronger Chorus I am stronger I am wiser Chorus I am wiser I am better Chorus I am better Anybody better Chorus I am better I can stand here and tell you, I made it. Anybody out there that you made it I am stronger Chorus I am stronger I am wiser Chorus I am wiser I am better Chorus I am better Much better Chorus …

TEHRAN, Iran An American journalist imprisoned on espionage charges in Iran for four months was freed Monday and reunited with her smiling, tearful parents — a move that clears a major obstacle to President Barack Obama’s attempts at dialogue with the top US adversary in the Middle East. The United States had said the charges against Roxana Saberi, a 32-year-old dual Iranian-American citizen, were baseless and repeatedly demanded her release. Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could also win some domestic political points a month before he faces a re-election challenge from reformers who seek to ease Iran’s bitter rivalry with the United States. Saberi’s Iranian-born father, Reza Saberi, wiped away tears, then flashed a broad smile as he and his wife, Akiko, arrived at Tehran’s Evin prison — notorious for holding political prisoners — to meet their daughter. Akiko Saberi, who is of Japanese origin, wore a flowered headscarf. “I’m very happy that she is free. Roxana is in good condition,” Reza Saberi said later at his family home in Tehran. “We had expected her release but not so soon. She will be preparing to leave (Iran) tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.” The younger Saberi, who was taken out of Evin through a back door away from journalists, was not seen after her release. She was staying with her parents at a friend’s home, apparently to avoid publicity before leaving Iran. Her release came when an appeals court reduced her eight-year prison sentence on charges …

A man found guilty of spying on Iran’s missile programme for the Israeli intelligence agency has been hanged.

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