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| 2025 | Slavoj Žižek publishes book 'Against Progress' |
| April 2024 | Žižek criticized Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip. |
| 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.' |
| 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 | Žižek showed his support for the Slovenian political party Levica (The Left) during its 5th annual conference. |
| 2021 | The film 'Bliss' was released. |
| 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. |
| 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 | Žižek began hosting a mini-series titled 'How to Watch the News with Slavoj Žižek' on the RT network. |
| 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 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 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. |
| April 2019 | Žižek debated psychology professor Jordan Peterson at the Sony Centre in Toronto, Canada, discussing happiness under capitalism versus Marxism. |
| 2018 | The short film 'Turn On' was released. |
| March 9 2018 | During a lecture on political revolutions in London, Žižek discussed his experience with Bell's palsy and used it as a metaphor for political idleness. |
| 2017 | Žižek expressed that one could not choose between Macron and Le Pen in the context of the upcoming French presidential election, arguing that Macron's neoliberalism contributes to the rise of neofascism. |
| 2016 | Žižek published 'The Sexual Is Political', where he argued that all subjects, including transgender subjects, are in conflict with the sexual positions assigned to them, advocating for a 'GENERAL GENDER' bathroom as a solution. |
| 2016 | Žižek became a member of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), which was founded in 2016. |
| 2016 | In an interview with Channel 4, Žižek stated that if he were American, he would vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election, a stance that was criticized by various commentators. |
| 2016 | The film 'Houston, We Have a Problem!' was released. |
| 2016 | The film 'Risk' was released. |
| 2014 | Žižek rejected the 'pseudo-Marxist' total derision of 'formal freedom', asserting its importance for critique, stating that awareness of limitations in freedom arises only when one is formally free. |
| 2014 | Žižek was accused of self-plagiarism by The New York Times after he published an op-ed that contained portions of his earlier writings. |
| July 2014 | Newsweek reported that in July 2014, bloggers led by Steve Sailer discovered that Žižek had plagiarized long passages from a 2006 article, copying from a review by Stanley Hornbeck published in a journal associated with white nationalism. |
| 2013 | The film 'Balkan Spirit' was released. |
| 2013 | Slavoj Žižek corresponded with imprisoned Russian activist and Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. |
| May 2013 | During the Subversive Festival, Žižek commented that those who do not support SYRIZA would receive from him a 'first-class one-way ticket to a gulag', leading to controversy and claims from the center-right New Democracy party that his remarks should be taken literally. |
| 2012 | Žižek was listed by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers, being referred to as 'a celebrity philosopher'. |
| 2012 | In the Sight & Sound critics' poll, Žižek listed his 10 favourite films, which he referred to as 'guilty pleasures'. |
| 2012 | The film 'The Pervert's Guide to Ideology' was released. |
| 2012 | The film 'Catastroika' was released. |
| 2011 | Žižek criticized the military intervention in Libya, stating it 'threw the country in chaos.' |
| 2011 | Žižek was featured in the documentary 'Marx Reloaded', directed by Jason Barker. |
| 2010 | In 2010, Slavoj Žižek claimed that Hegel is more fundamental to his work than Lacan, stating, 'Even Lacan is just a tool for me to read Hegel. For me, always it is Hegel, Hegel, Hegel.' |
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