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The paper was delivered delivered at The Cooper Union, New York, on 14. October 2009, as part of promotion of Žižek's book with the same title—First as Tragedy, Then as Farce—analysing how the tragedy of September 11 2001 moved the USA to the farcical 2008 financial crisis.

Slavoj Žižek is a Philosopher and Psychoanalytic social theorist. He is Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana; Professor at the School of Law and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London; Distinguished Scholar at the Kyung Hee University, Seoul; and Visiting Professor at the German Department, New York University. His field of work comprises Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, dialectical-materialist metaphysical interpretations of German Idealism and Marxian critique of ideology. His more than sixty books in English have been widely translated. His latest publications include 'Hegel in a Wired Brain', 'Sex and the Failed Absolute', 'Like A Thief In Broad Daylight', 'Reading Marx', 'Incontinence of the Void', 'The Day After the Revolution', 'Heaven in Disorder', 'Reading Hegel' and 'Surplus-Enjoyment'.