AI-ready English summaries generated from selected RSS posts with clear attribution to the original sources.
A reflection on Europe’s 2026 heat wave and how capitalist market logic can turn essential resources like water and air into sources of private riches through scarcity and privatization.
A summary of Slavoj Žižek’s essay linking King Crimson’s album art, AI agents, authority, and the idea of a maternal superego in the digital age.
Original: IN THE COURT OF THE AI KING
A concise summary of Slavoj Žižek’s essay linking AI, cyborg theory, Islamic lineage, Confucian order, and revolutionary politics through the idea of the “illegitimate offspring.”
A summary of Slavoj Žižek’s essay on AI, digital feudalism, Peter Thiel, and Pope Leo’s call to resist concentrated algorithmic power.
A summary of Slavoj Žižek’s reflection on King Crimson’s In the Court of the Crimson King, AI agents, and the image of manipulation, published on Substack.
Original: IN THE COURT OF THE AI KING
A summary of Slavoj Žižek’s essay on Pope Leo’s critique of AI, digital feudalism, and why Peter Thiel is cast as the clearest contrast to the Pope’s warning.
A summary of Slavoj Žižek’s argument linking Palantir, AI, censorship, Epstein-era scrutiny, and Melania Trump’s attack on Jimmy Kimmel.
Original: WHY I DISAGREE WITH MELANIA PALANTIR
A summary of Slavoj Žižek’s reflections on Europe’s role in the Ukraine war, Peter Sloterdijk’s view of Europe as an observer, and the rise of shameless populist politics around Trump and Vance.
Original: CONFESSIONS OF A MODERATELY-CONSERVATIVE COMMUNIST
A newly highlighted 1929 letter from Sigmund Freud to Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi is presented as a timely reminder of European unity amid political upheaval.
Original: "I LOVE HIM WHO CRAVES THE IMPOSSIBLE"
Slavoj Žižek argues that AI is not a subject but a subjectless system that reveals human alienation, using Lacan, Hegel, and Pluribus to examine AI, discourse, and desire.
A summary of Slavoj Žižek’s Substack essay responding to Anton Alikhanov’s remarks about Kant, Western pragmatism, responsibility, and the Ukraine war.
Original: SHOULD DEEDS REALLY MATCH THE WORDS?
A summary of Slavoj Žižek’s critique of Palantir’s Technological Republic points, focusing on AI’s ties to military power, Silicon Valley’s political role, and debates over religious belief and intolerance.
Original: WHY I DISAGREE WITH MELANIA PALANTIR
Slavoj Žižek reflects on claims that Israeli military leader Roman Gofman drew on his work, arguing that state power can violate its own laws while using “law and order” as a tool of domination.
A summary of Slavoj Žižek’s response to Anton Alikhanov’s comments on Kant, Western values, and the war in Ukraine, focusing on irony, ideology, and responsibility.
Original: SHOULD DEEDS REALLY MATCH THE WORDS?
Žižek reflects on claims that a future Mossad chief drew on his ideas, using the example to examine how Israeli state power, settlers, and secret services relate to law, occupation, and political duplicity.
A summary of Slavoj Žižek’s response to a review of Carlo Rovelli’s upcoming book, focusing on Kierkegaard, subjectivity, and the comparison between quantum physics and philosophy.
Original: ROVELLI’S KIERKEGAARD
Slavoj Žižek responds to criticism of his views on immigration, arguing that today’s global order is already violating its supposed limits and that the Left must rethink its strategy.
A concise summary of Alenka Zupančič’s essay on debt, guilt, capitalism, and data-driven control, as introduced in Slavoj Žižek’s Substack.
Original: DEBT INC.: GUILT, CREDIT, AND THE ALGORITHMIC FUTURE
A critical essay examines Trump’s vulgar public rhetoric, his quasi-divine treatment by supporters, and the rise of populism as a struggle for recognition rather than economics.
Original: “PEOPLE DO NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE – ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY DO NOT HAVE IT”
A summary of Slavoj Žižek’s argument that Peter Thiel’s anti-government, pro-monopoly worldview mirrors the fears he projects onto others, and how Girard, Lacan, and vocation offer a different reading of desire and power.
Original: CONCLUSION: WHO IS THE ANTICHRIST TODAY
A summary of Slavoj Žižek’s Rome speech on the European Union at 70 years, exploring Gramsci, Benjamin, Trump, Russia, and the idea of a looming civilizational collapse.
Original: EUROPEAN UNION, SEVENTY YEARS LATER
A summary of Slavoj Žižek’s critique of Peter Thiel’s antichrist framing, focusing on tech regulation, globalization, surveillance, and Silicon Valley power.
Original: CONCLUSION: WHO IS THE ANTICHRIST TODAY
A Slavoj Žižek-style essay links Trump’s ‘covfefe’ and ‘winning’ rhetoric to Lacan’s ideas of sinthom, superego injunction, and surplus-enjoyment.
Original: TRUMP AS A READER OF LACAN
A summary of Slavoj Žižek’s reflection on Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Véronique, focusing on chance, alternate realities, second chances, and the film’s darker interpretation of freedom.
Original: THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VÉRONIQUE: THE FORCED CHOICE OF FREEDOM
A summary of Slavoj Žižek’s essay on Iran, the Mahsa Amini protests, US-Israeli strikes, and the role of Heidegger, Habermas, and Kant in Iranian political thought.
Original: IRAN FROM HEIDEGGER TO KANT
