Navayana presents preeminent Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek in its 1st Annual Lecture series. The lectures, beginning 4 Jan 2010, are preceded by screenings of films on/with Žižek. After the screening of two films on 24 Dec 2009 at Sarai, the show now moves to Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, where Astra Taylor’s Žižek! will be screened on 2 Jan 2010. All the events are open to the public.
“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire — it tells you how to desire.” — Slavoj Žižek
“Žižek!” …

Navayana and Sarai invite you to the fifth in the series of Navayana-Sarai lectures
on Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 3.30 p.m. at Seminar Room, CSDS.
RAVIKUMAR, author of Venomous Touch: Notes on Caste, Culture & Politics (Samya) shall speak on “Theorising Resistance”
ANIL CHAMADIA, Professor, Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha;
SANJAY KAK, filmmaker; and R. AZHAGARASAN, translator of Ravikumar’s work, shall participate in a discussion on the book.
Ravikmuar has pursued writing, publishing, translation and rights activism over two decades in Tamil Nadu. He has authored seven books and edited three little magazines in …