{"id":2321,"date":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/what-can-the-philosophy-of-zizek-tell-us-about-desire-and-ideology-in-current-culture\/"},"modified":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"what-can-the-philosophy-of-zizek-tell-us-about-desire-and-ideology-in-current-culture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2021\/01\/12\/what-can-the-philosophy-of-zizek-tell-us-about-desire-and-ideology-in-current-culture-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What can the Philosophy of Zizek tell us about desire and ideology in current culture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can the Philosophy of Zizek tell us about desire and ideology in current culture?<br \/>\nThis essay shows key features of Zizek\u2019s philosophy which show how desire influences ideology and how this can be illustrated through examining current culture. <\/p>\n<p>I have used the examples of the musical Hamilton and The Extinction Rebellion protests. <\/p>\n<p>Hamilton is a beautiful piece of culture to analyse using Zizek\u2019s philosophy because it expresses powerful ideologies through music.<\/p>\n<p>Extinction Rebellion is a wonderful organization that is trying to save the world. Zizek\u2019s philosophy when applied to the reaction to XR is excellent in illustrating the powerful nature of ideology. <\/p>\n<p>Ideology is a powerful and irrational force in the world, and nobody realises they are being duped by it, this is what my essay aims to argue.<\/p>\n<p>Exploring Zizek\u2019s philosophy through these pieces of current culture has given me a much greater understanding of the world around me.<\/p>\n<p>Zizek is clearly an influential philosopher and his philosophy has interested me for a while now and it was a joy to learn about his work. His conception of ideology I believe is groundbreaking, I aimed to show this in my essay and I believe I have succeeded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Thomas, 2021, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,22,123],"tags":[27,120,323],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-311","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-culture","tag-ideology","tag-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}