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Liberal Fascisms
The third installment in Slavoj Žižek's essay series, Žižek's Essays, exploring the various 'liberal' fascisms which pervade contemporary political and social life.
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Against Progress
To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, which have never seemed worse, get better? What would a better world be? And how, when we are constantly besieged by doomers, degrowthers and disorienting relativisms can we make any headway at all in the face of unprecedented ecological, social and political crises?In thirteen iconoclastic essays, Slavoj Zizek disrupts the death-grip that neoliberalists, Trumpian populists, toxic self-improvement industries and accelerationists alike have established on the idea of progress. Anatomizing what is lost when opponents of the future are allowed to define it, Zizek ruthlessly exposes what different visions of progress exclude or sacrifice and the dynamics of desire, denial and disavowal at work in Hollywood blockbusters, Buddhist economics, decolonization movements and other engines of vision. In a whirlwind tour that takes in everything from gentrification to the theory of relativity, Lacan to Lenin, Putin to Mary Poppins and Marine Le Pen to the end of the world, these essays never stop asking hard questions of imagined futures.Nor does Zizek shrink from the hardest question of all: How do we free ourselves from the hypocritical, guilt-ridden dreaming in which we're enmeshed, and begin to build a better world?
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Quantum History
Slavoj Zizek's treatise on how insights from the field of Quantum Physics allow a total re-invention of how we think about history.
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The Edges of the World
At the margins of life, lands and historyIn our heavily centralised and conformist world, we sorely need this passionate, imaginative insight into the vital role of life on the borders, the very fringes of the world. Foster makes it clear that the much-vaunted centre is literally a nowhere, a place of soulless self-congratulation and imaginative death. Literal "eccentricity" is where the scientific, artistic and spiritual giants have always found their home. Venture with Foster if you dare, and embrace life.
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Too Late to Awaken
The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicamentWe hear all the time that it's five minutes to global doomsday, so now is our last chance to avert disaster. But what if the only way to prevent a catastrophe is to assume that it has already happened - that we're already five minutes past zero hour?Why do we seem unable to avert our course to self-destruction? Too Late to Awaken sees Slavoj Žižek deliver his most forceful, hopeful account of our discontents yet. Surveying the interlocking crises we currently face - global warming, war, famine, disease - he points us towards the radical, emancipatory politics that we need in order to halt our drift towards disaster.Pithy, urgent and witty, Žižek's diagnosis reveals our current geopolitical nightmare in a startling new light, and shows why, in order to change our future, we must reimagine our past.
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Freedom
We are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom.The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think we understand it, but the moment we try and define it we encounter contradictions. In this new philosophical exploration, Slavoj Zizek argues that the experience of true, radical freedom is transient and fragile. Countering the idea of libertarian individualism, Zizek draws on philosophers Hegel, Kierkegaard and Heidegger, as well as the work of Kandinsky and Agatha Christie to examine the many facets of freedom and what we can learn from each of them.Today, with the latest advances in digital control, our social activity can be controlled and regulated to such a degree that the liberal notion of a free individual becomes obsolete and even meaningless. How will we be obliged to reinvent (or limit) the contours of our freedom?Tracing its connection to everything from capitalism and war to the state and environmental breakdown, Zizek takes us on an illuminating and entertaining journey that shows how a deeper understanding of freedom can offer hope in dark times.
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Wanorde in de hemel
Geschreven op het hoogtepunt van de COVID-19-pandemie is dit boek een verbluffende verzameling analyses van de Sloveense filosoof Slavoj Žižek over ons huidige tijdsgewricht. De spanningen in Europa en het Midden-Oosten komen aan de orde, naast de crisis van de democratie en de klimaatramp. Het blijvende motief van onze tijd is meedogenloze chaos. Mao Zedong erkende de mogelijkheden voor een nieuw begin op zulke momenten in zijn beroemde uitspraak: ‘Er heerst grote wanorde onder de hemel; de situatie is uitstekend.’ De hedendaagse relevantie van Mao’s observatie hangt af van de vraag of de huidige catastrofes een katalysator voor vooruitgang kunnen zijn of zullen overgaan in iets verschrikkelijks en onherstelbaars. Misschien heerst de wanorde niet langer onder, maar in de hemel zelf. Het nieuwe boek van Žižek, dat kenmerkend rijk is aan paradoxen en omkeringen die zowel vermakelijk als verhelderend zijn, behandelt met evenveel diepgang de lessen van Rammstein en Corbyn, Morales en Orwell, Lenin en Christus. Het graaft universele waarheden op uit lokale politieke constellaties in Palestina en Chili, Frankrijk en Koerdistan, en daarbuiten.
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Zero Point
The essays in Zero Point ask how we distinguish defeat from disaster, and how we confront despair without collapsing into it - questions never more pertinent than the current moment in the wake of electoral victories for authoritarian populists and unceasing news of violent atrocities. The 'zero-point' of the title is ground level, rock bottom, the place to which one retreats and where one regroups. Taken from Vladimir Lenin's 1922 piece 'On Ascending a High Mountain, in which Lenin considers the complexities of how one 'retreats' while keeping faith in the cause, the central simile of the climber offers a blueprint for resilience, flexibility, and the persistence of hope. This is the revolutionary as living out the Beckettian motto: 'Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' In Zizek's hands, this becomes the formula for confronting the antagonisms of existing world order. With a particular focus on the Middle East -the point at which all our tensions threaten to explode - Zizek argues nothing can be addressed meaningfully without such a confrontation.The consequences of eschewing apolitical acts of solidarity and choosing to attempt to speak truth to power are reckoned with in the second half of Zero Point. In a unique piece assembled chronologically from unpublished writings, Zizek wrestles with the fallout from his controversial speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2023 - a speech which saw him interrupted, condemned and accused of anti-Semitism. The reader bears witness as Zizek processes the criticism, evolves his thinking and explores the full ethical, political and personal ramifications of the question: When is the right time to speak?
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
Looks at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. This book explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.
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Una Izquierda Que Se Atreva a Decir Su Nombre
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Ilerlemeye Karsi
Ilerleme fikri modern dünyanin en güclü anlatilarindan biridir. Bilimsel gelisme, ekonomik büyüme ve siyasal özgürlesme cogu zaman tek bir dogrultuda ilerleyen bir tarih düsüncesi icinde birlestirilir. Bu anlati, gecmise bakarken geride birakilan kayiplari görünmez kilan bir perspektif de üretir.iek bu görünmezligi carpici bir metaforla somutlastirir Christopher Nolanin The Prestige filminde bir sihirbaz sahneye cikip kücük bir kusu yok eder, ardindan avucundan canli bir kus cikarir. Gösterinin sahne arkasinda ise cöpe atilmis ölü kuslar vardir Her seferinde kurban edilenlerin üstü örtülerek isleyen bir numara söz konusudur.Ilerlemeye Karsi, Aydinlanma düsüncesinden Marxa, liberal modernlesme teorilerinden güncel teknolojik iyimserlige kadar uzanan genis bir alanda bu büyük anlatinin hangi varsayimlar üzerine kuruldugunu inceleyen bir sorgulama. Küresel esitsizlikler, ekolojik kriz ve post-siyasal uzlasma söylemi, ilerleme düsüncesinin sinirlarini görünür kilan semptomlar olarak okunuyor. Böylece ilerleme, artik güvenilir bir yön duygusu degil, sürekli yeniden tanimlanmasi gereken bir problem haline geliyor.
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