Editing Slavoj Žižek (section)

===Public life===
[[File:Slavoj Žižek 2011.jpg|alt=|thumb|Žižek speaking in 2011]]

In 2003, Žižek wrote text to accompany [[Bruce Weber (photographer)|Bruce Weber]]'s photographs in a catalog for [[Abercrombie & Fitch]]. Questioned as to the seemliness of a major intellectual writing ad copy, Žižek told ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', "If I were asked to choose between doing things like this to earn money and becoming fully employed as an American academic, kissing ass to get a tenured post, I would with pleasure choose writing for such journals!"<ref>Glenn, Joshua. "The Examined Life: Enjoy Your Chinos!", ''[[The Boston Globe]]''. 6 July 2003. H2.</ref>

Žižek and his thought have been the subject of several documentaries. The 1996 ''[[Liebe Dein Symptom wie Dich selbst!]]'' is a German documentary on him. In the 2004 ''[[The Reality of the Virtual]]'', Žižek gave an hour-long lecture on his interpretation of Lacan's tripartite thesis of the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real.<ref>{{Citation |title=Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual | date=20 August 2012 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnTQhIRcrno |language=en |access-date=2022-08-23 |archive-date=23 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220823175906/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnTQhIRcrno |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Zizek!]]'' is a 2005 documentary by [[Astra Taylor]] on his philosophy. The 2006 ''[[The Pervert's Guide to Cinema]]'' and 2012 ''[[The Pervert's Guide to Ideology]]'' also portray Žižek's ideas and cultural criticism. ''[[Examined Life]]'' (2008) features Žižek speaking about his conception of [[ecology]] at a garbage dump. He was also featured in the 2011 ''[[Marx Reloaded]]'', directed by [[Jason Barker]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schmitt |first=Peer |date=2011-04-08 |title=Falsche Freunde |url=https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/162082.falsche-freunde.html |access-date=2022-08-23 |website=[[Junge Welt]] |language=de}}</ref>

''[[Foreign Policy (magazine)|Foreign Policy]]'' named Žižek one of its 2012 Top 100 Global Thinkers "for giving voice to an era of absurdity".<ref name="The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers"/>

In 2019, Žižek began hosting a mini-series called ''How to Watch the News with Slavoj Žižek'' on the [[RT (TV network)|RT network]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://czaskultury.pl/czytanki/koniec-niewinnosci/|title=Koniec niewinności|access-date=27 April 2021|archive-date=27 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427151325/https://czaskultury.pl/czytanki/koniec-niewinnosci/|url-status=live}}</ref> In April, Žižek [[Peterson–Žižek debate|debated]] psychology professor [[Jordan Peterson]] at the [[Sony Centre for the Performing Arts|Sony Centre]] in [[Toronto|Toronto, Canada]] over [[happiness]] under [[capitalism]] versus [[Marxism]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/04/19/jordan-peterson-slavoj-zizek-each-draw-fans-at-sold-out-debate.html|title=Jordan Peterson, Slavoj Zizek each draw fans at sold-out debate|author1=Raju Mudhar|author2=Brendan Kennedy|date=19 April 2019|newspaper=Toronto Star|access-date=20 April 2019|archive-date=20 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420020933/https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/04/19/jordan-peterson-slavoj-zizek-each-draw-fans-at-sold-out-debate.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/20/jordan-peterson-slavoj-zizek-happiness-capitalism-marxism|title=The 'debate of the century': what happened when Jordan Peterson debated Slavoj Žižek|author=Stephen Marche|date=20 April 2019|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=20 April 2019|archive-date=20 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420153957/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/20/jordan-peterson-slavoj-zizek-happiness-capitalism-marxism|url-status=live}}</ref>