8th December 2004, Kings College London Chapel, in association with the ICA

We are still believers, but the things we believe are not worth believing in. Slavoj Zizek, radical social theorist and Lacanian psychoanalyst, has established himself as one of the most trenchant and perceptive critics of Western political culture at work in the world today. In a unique and provocative sermon, Zizek questioned our pretensions to enlightened unbelief. Those who believe in social change should now work to defend the Judaeo-Christian heritage against its burgeoning modern alternatives – everything from new-age religions to astrology to Western Buddhism – which are too shallow and too private to be capable of offering us real spiritual succour.