The Year of Dreaming Dangerously by Slavoj Zizek, ISBN-13: 978-1781680421
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- Publisher: Verso; 1st edition (October 9, 2012)
- Language: English
- 142 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781781680421
- ISBN-13: 978-1781680421
The renowned philosopher finds a utopian future in worldwide protests.
Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired the world’s racist populists in places as far apart as Hungary and Arizona, achieving a horrific consummation in the actions of mass murderer Anders Breivik.
The subterranean work of dissatisfaction continues. Rage is building, and a new wave of revolts and disturbances will follow. Why? Because the events of 2011 augur a new political reality. These are limited, distorted—sometimes even perverted—fragments of a utopian future lying dormant in the present.
Table of Contents:
1 Introduction: War Nam Nihadan 1
2 From Domination to Exploitation and Revolt 7
3 The “Dream-Work” of Political Representation 19
4 The Return of the Evil Ethnic Thing 35
5 Welcome to the Desert of Post-Ideology 47
6 The Arab Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall 63
7 Occupy Wall Street, Or, The Violent Silence of a
New Beginning 77
8 The Wire, Or, What to Do in Non-Evental Times 91
9 Beyond Envy and Resentment 113
10 Conclusion: Signs From the Future 127
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Less Than Nothing; The Year of Dreaming Dangerously; Living in the End Times; First as Tragedy, Then as Farce; In Defense of Lost Causes; six volumes of the Essential Žižek; and many more.
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