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| 2025 | Slavoj Žižek publishes book 'Against Progress' |
| 2025 | Gaspar Noé will appear in Lucile Hadžihalilović's fourth feature film, The Ice Tower. |
| 2024 | Gaspar Noé served as the director for the film 'Dans la peau de Blanche Houellebecq,' directed by Guillaume Nicloux. |
| 2024 | Gaspar Noé was announced to be part of the cast for the feature film 'Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust,' which is a longer version of the Indian short film Schirkoa. |
| 2024 | During an interview at the Cairo International Film Festival, Noé expressed his desire to create a different film aimed at children. |
| 2024 | Judith Butler published 'Who's Afraid of Gender?', a book that examines the roots of current anti-trans rhetoric and the historical context of the anti-gender movement. |
| 2024 | Starred alongside Diego Luna in the Hulu Original miniseries La Máquina, playing the eponymous character. |
| April 2024 | Žižek criticized Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip. |
| March 3 2024 | At a public event in Paris, Judith Butler described the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel as an 'act of armed resistance' rather than terrorism. |
| 2023 | Gaspar Noé appeared in the documentary film 'Dario Argento Panico' directed by Simone Scafidi. |
| 2023 | In a piece for Compact Magazine, Žižek took a strong stance against access to puberty blockers for trans youth and criticized the placement of trans adults in prisons matching their gender, linking his arguments to what he described as 'wokeness.' |
| 2023 | Following the start of the Israel–Hamas war, Butler published an essay titled 'The Compass of Mourning', condemning the massacre while arguing that the actions of Hamas should be viewed in the context of historical injustices over the past seventy years. |
| 2023 | Butler asserted that the anti-gender ideology movement should be viewed as a neo-fascist phenomenon. |
| 2023 | Starred in the film Cassandro. |
| 2022 | Gaspar Noé's film 'Vortex' won Best Film at the Dublin International Film Festival. |
| 2022 | Gaspar Noé's film 'Vortex' won the Golden Tulip for Best Film / FIPRESCI Prize at the International Istanbul Film Festival. |
| 2022 | Gaspar Noé's film 'Vortex' won the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Prize at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. |
| 2022 | Gaspar Noé appeared in the posthumous documentary 'Three in the Drift of the Creative Act,' discussing art alongside other notable figures. |
| 2022 | Gaspar Noé's film 'Vortex' won the Grand Prix for Best Film at the Ghent International Film Festival. |
| 2022 | Žižek showed his support for the Slovenian political party Levica (The Left) during its 5th annual conference. |
| 2022 | In an opinion article for The Guardian, Žižek argued for full support of Ukraine following the Russian invasion and called for a stronger NATO in response to Russian aggression. |
| 2022 | In his book 'Heaven in Disorder', Žižek reiterated his preference for Joe Biden over Donald Trump, criticizing Trump for corroding the ethical substance of life while portraying Biden as a more genteel representative of big capital. |
| 2022 | Starred in the Disney+ special Werewolf by Night. |
| 2021 | Gaspar Noé premiered 'Vortex', which garnered attention for its stylistic approach to depicting aging and the human condition. |
| 2021 | The film 'Bliss' was released. |
| 2021 | Appeared in the film Old. |
| 2021 | Stars as Arthur Leander in the miniseries Station Eleven |
| 2021 | Starred in M. Night Shyamalan's thriller Old and was cast in the Marvel Studios Disney+ special Werewolf by Night. |
| September 30 2021 | Birth of a child with Fernanda Aragonés. |
| September 7 2021 | An interview with Butler was published by The Guardian, where Butler discussed trans-exclusionary feminists and labeled the anti-gender ideology as a dominant strain of fascism in contemporary society. Following its publication, some paragraphs were removed due to editorial standards issues. |
| 2020 | Gaspar Noé made a cameo as a patient in 'Mon Cousin,' directed by Jan Kounen. |
| 2020 | Gaspar Noé suffered a near fatal brain hemorrhage, which partly inspired the plot of his film Vortex. |
| 2020 | Gaspar Noé released the short film 'The Art of Filmmaking' and 'Saint Laurent - Summer of '21'. |
| 2020 | Žižek revealed that he was reconsidering his views on Trump, stating 'Trump is a little too much' and indicating a shift in preference towards Joe Biden. |
| 2020 | Butler commented that trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF) is 'a fringe movement' that should not be allowed to speak in the name of mainstream feminism. |
| 2020 | Judith Butler published 'The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind,' where they explored the connection between nonviolence and the political struggle for social equality, challenging traditional understandings of nonviolence. |
| 2020 | Ranked No. 25 in The New York Times' list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century. |
| 2019 | Noé released 'Lux Æterna', a film that reflects on the film industry and the nature of art through a surreal narrative. |
| 2019 | Žižek began hosting a mini-series titled 'How to Watch the News with Slavoj Žižek' on the RT network. |
| 2019 | Žižek co-signed a petition condemning the use of disproportionate force by the Hong Kong Police against students during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, advocating for academic freedom and the safety of students. |
| 2019 | In 2019, Slavoj Žižek asserted that 'For me, in some sense, all of philosophy happened in [the] fifty years' between Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and the death of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1831). |
| 2019 | Žižek defended his support for Trump, arguing that the election 'created a true American left' by energizing figures like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. |
| 2019 | In the article 'Transgender dogma is naive and incompatible with Freud', Žižek explored the tension in LGBT+ ideology between social constructivism and biological determinism, proposing a 'Freudian solution' to this ideological deadlock. |
| 2019 | In a 2019 article, Žižek highlighted Marx's view that the market economy uniquely combines political and personal freedom with social unfreedom. |
| 2019 | Judith Butler was elected as a Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
| 2019 | Judith Butler explored the confusion of discourses regarding anti-gender movements in a paper, arguing that this confusion is part of what constitutes the 'fascist structure and appeal' of some of these movements. |
| 2019 | Produced 'The Art of Filmmaking' |
| 2019 | Began a relationship with Mexican journalist Fernanda Aragonés. |
| 2019 | Bernal makes his feature film directorial debut with 'Chicuarotes' and appears in multiple films including 'It Must Be Heaven' as himself and 'Wasp Network'. |
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