AUSTIN TANNENBAUM

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Austin holds an MA in Creative Publishing and Critical Jounralism at the New School for Social Research. After receiving his BA in communications at The Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands, he’s gained nearly a decade of professional journalism experience. His musical project is called Learning.


FILM.



‘THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO UTOPIAS’ PREACHES RADICAL PESSIMISM AT THE END OF THE WORLD
In Venice, Sophie Fiennes’ third collaboration with Zizek sees the 77-year-old at his most political — and earnest

2026 | DIRECTED BY SOPHIE FIENNES

Following the end credits of The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012), British filmmaker Sophie Fiennes and Slovenian cultural theorist Slavoj Zizek treat viewers to what may be the greatest stinger of all time. Reenacting Titanic’s infamous floating door scene, Zizek shivers in the gelid blue water of the night, uttering with his final breath, “I may be freezing to death, but you cannot get rid of me. All the ice in the world cannot kill a true idea.” He then sinks, a la Leo, into the ocean, but not before shoving a defiant fist in the air. The struggle lives on.

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