Ben Gook

Ideology isn’t in the Answer, it’s in the Question: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek

Ben Gook, Slavoj Žižek

Journal article  |  2020  |  tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society

An interview with Slavoj Žižek, in which he discusses crucial topics central to both his thought (psychoanalysis, philosophy, Hege..

Neo-Tribes and The Subcultural Imagination

Bjørn Schiermer, Ben Gook

Journal article  |  2019  |  Youth and Globalization

East German intellectuals and the unification of Germany: an ethnographic view

Ben Gook

Journal article  |  2018  |  Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe

Backdating German neoliberalism: Ordoliberalism, the German model and economic experiments in eastern Germany after 1989

Ben Gook

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of Sociology

Privatising East Germany: Re-unification and the Politics of Real Estate

B Gook

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Ex-Embassy

‘In our time,’ Fredric Jameson wrote in a 2015 essay, ‘all politics is about real estate.’ Jameson’s clear-eyed conclusion makes i..

Review of Joseph Ben Prestel's "Emotional Cities: Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo 1860-1910"

Benjamin Gook

Journal article  |  2018  |  Cromohs (Cyber Review of Modern Historiography)

Nancy Fraser’s Zeitdiagnose: Capitalism after the Financial Crisis

Ben Gook

Journal article  |  2017  |  Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie

Australian postcolonial trauma and silences in Samson and Delilah

B Gook

Book Chapter  |  2017

Ecstatic Melancholic: Ambivalence, Electronic Music and Social Change around the Fall of the Berlin Wall

B Gook

Journal article  |  2017  |  Emotions: History, Culture and Society

The Cold War’s end infused electronic music in Berlin after 1989 with an ecstatic intensity. Enthused communities came together to..

Berlin and Detroit: An Alien Techno Alliance. Cultural Politics and Social Transformation after the Fall of the Wall

B GOOK

Journal article  |  2016  |  Limbus: Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies

The Cold War’s end infused electronic music from Detroit and Berlin in the early-to-mid-1990s with an unrivalled intensity. The ev..