Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Communications Theory at the University of Leeds and Editor of the International Journal of Zizek Studies. In addition to "Zizek and the Media", he is the author of several books including "Critical Theories of Mass Media: Then and Now".
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Monday, March 26, 2012 15:01 - 0 Comments
Ideas | Screening Žižek: Laconic Axe vs Lobottonised Thought
In the second of his essays on "Screening Thought" Paul Taylor explores the wider constraints imposed on serious thinking by the media. Despite the problems caused by Zizek's popularity, his celebrity-intellectual persona still retains an important aspect of “the return of the repressed” - abstract thought's stubborn survival in a heavily mediated age.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Monday, March 12, 2012 20:08 - 1 Comment
Ideas | Screening Žižek : on the decaffeination of provocative ideas
In the first of three essays on "Screening Thought", academic and author Paul Taylor draws upon his first-hand experience of giving a public talk with Slavoj Zizek to show how the media's worst tendencies risk being adopted by audiences who should know better.
New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, November 24, 2010 0:00 - 3 Comments
Ideas If you can’t stand the “Heat” magazine, get out of Lord Kitchener’s culture
In an exclusive essay, Paul Taylor questions the social exclusion of radical thought. Critical thought nowadays, he asserts, faces a situation akin to that described in Ray Bradbury's novel - Fahrenheit 451.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire, Profiles - Thursday, October 28, 2010 0:00 - 13 Comments
Profile: Slavoj Žižek – The Dog’s Bollocks … at the Media Dinner Party
In an exclusive essay, Paul Taylor explains why Slavoj Žižek stands out so forcefully from the conventional commentariat and debunks two frequently voiced objections to his work – the obscene humour and his refusal to provide ready-made solutions for the problems he so readily identifies.
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