SLAVOJ ZIZEK
Monday, September 8 at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Avenue

Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. Autumn is not quite officially with us on the calendar, but the season is off to a proverbial bang this evening, with Slovenian cultural critic and philosopher Slavoj Zizek making this much-anticipated Town Hall visit. The author of numerous works—this year's In Defense of Lost Causes, The Sublime Object of Ideology, The Ticklish Subject, and almost thirty more—he is here with Violence: Six Sideways Reflections, one of the first volumes in an intriguing new "BIG IDEAS / small books" series (Picador). This telling volume serves at least two purposes—a scintillating, wide-ranging, provocative exploration of the subject, and an intimate-sized introduction to the ways of Slavoj Zizek's thinking. He is presently senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, and has taught at Princeton, Columbia, and The New School, among other institutions. He has made a film (The Pervert's Guide to the Cinema) and been the object of one (Zizek). "Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation." - The New Yorker. "Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability." - Publishers Weekly. Tickets are $5, available via www.brownpapertickets.com, 1-800-838-3006, or at the door starting at 6:30 p.m. Town Hall members receive seating priority. Town Hall Seattle is located at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information, please call (206) 652-4255 (Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600) or see www.townhallseattle.org.

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