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I am looking for something specifically saying that Zizek is a tool of the very system he is opposed to, capitalism. It needs to be a legit source. Thank you.
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Independent publisher Verso is promoting a series of talks to be held in London by critical theorist Slavoj Žižek. Promoting his new book, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (a reference to Karl Marx's famous statement on the repetition of history), Žižek will be putting in appearances at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Birkbeck College, RSA and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Some of the venues are offering free public admission, but you can find out all the relevant booking details at each institution by clicking the links below. The whistle-stop three-day tour of events runs from 23 to 25 November.
In his new book First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Slavoj Žižek examines the âfour horsemen of the apocalypseâ. Tonight he will discuss one of them â the threat of ecological catastrophe â and deliver a lecture criticising the ideology which has grown up around ecology. The notion that that we shouldnât mess around with nature, he argues, has become the new opium of the masses and one of the most insidious and most conservative ideologies of our time. If we are do anything about environmental problems, says Žižek, we need to stop sentimentalising nature and criticise the assumptions of environmentalism. James Harkin chairs the talk.
Slavoj Žižek â radical philosopher, polymath, film star, and author of over 30 books â is one of the most controversial and leading contemporary public intellectuals, simultaneously acclaimed as the âElvis of cultural theoryâ and denounced as âthe most dangerous philosopher in the Westâ.
He visits the RSA to ask the question that is on everyoneâs lips: if we can pour billions of dollars into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization, why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis?
Slavoj Žižek argues that the neoliberalism died twice: first as a political doctrine in the tragedy of the attacks of 9/11; then its farcical collapse as an economic theory when the meltdown at the end of 2008 brought an end to the utopia of global market capitalism. Has this crisis now offered a vital opening for the left to seize the reins of politics and the state?
Slavoj Žižek, the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana. This lecture launches Mr Žižek's new book First as Tragedy, Then as Farce.
Independent publisher Verso is promoting a series of talks to be held in London by critical theorist Slavoj Žižek. Promoting his new book, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (a reference to Karl Marx's famous statement on the repetition of history), Žižek will be putting in appearances at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Birkbeck College, RSA and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Some of the venues are offering free public admission, but you can find out all the relevant booking details at each institution by clicking the links below. The whistle-stop three-day tour of events runs from 23 to 25 November.
In his new book First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Slavoj Žižek examines the âfour horsemen of the apocalypseâ. Tonight he will discuss one of them â the threat of ecological catastrophe â and deliver a lecture criticising the ideology which has grown up around ecology. The notion that that we shouldnât mess around with nature, he argues, has become the new opium of the masses and one of the most insidious and most conservative ideologies of our time. If we are do anything about environmental problems, says Žižek, we need to stop sentimentalising nature and criticise the assumptions of environmentalism. James Harkin chairs the talk.
Slavoj Žižek â radical philosopher, polymath, film star, and author of over 30 books â is one of the most controversial and leading contemporary public intellectuals, simultaneously acclaimed as the âElvis of cultural theoryâ and denounced as âthe most dangerous philosopher in the Westâ.
He visits the RSA to ask the question that is on everyoneâs lips: if we can pour billions of dollars into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization, why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis?
Slavoj Žižek argues that the neoliberalism died twice: first as a political doctrine in the tragedy of the attacks of 9/11; then its farcical collapse as an economic theory when the meltdown at the end of 2008 brought an end to the utopia of global market capitalism. Has this crisis now offered a vital opening for the left to seize the reins of politics and the state?
Slavoj Žižek, the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana. This lecture launches Mr Žižek's new book First as Tragedy, Then as Farce.
What is the book in which a totalitarian state pretends to be at war against invisible enemy?
Dunc M
Can anyone tell me the book I read in which a totalitarian state pretends to be at war against an invisible enemy in order to keep their citizens under close control? I've tried google, but most results are Slavoj Zizek-types saying that it's going on in real life now. Thanks in advance.
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It's probably 1984. In the book there are three nations, and each one is always at war with one, and allied with the other. The countries themselves aren't imaginary, but what happens is, sooner or later the war with the one country ends, and they end up at war with the other and allied with the first. But whenever that happens the whole state pretends that they never were at war with any country except the one they're fighting now, and the citizens have to pretend the same.
It's probably 1984. In the book there are three nations, and each one is always at war with one, and allied with the other. The countries themselves aren't imaginary, but what happens is, sooner or later the war with the one country ends, and they end up at war with the other and allied with the first. But whenever that happens the whole state pretends that they never were at war with any country except the one they're fighting now, and the citizens have to pretend the same.
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