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Zizek's Essays Ser.: Against Progress by Slavoj Zizek (2024, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10135051585X
ISBN-139781350515857
eBay Product ID (ePID)28069446328
Product Key Features
Number of Pages136 Pages
Publication NameAgainst Progress
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSocial, Civilization, Semiotics & Theory, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year2024
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Philosophy, Performing Arts, History
AuthorSlavoj Zizek
SeriesZizek's Essays Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight5.6 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2025-399214
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal303.44
Table Of ContentEditor's note 1. Progress and its Vicissitudes 2. Against Progress 3. Acceleration 4. Holographic History 5. Absolute Invariants 6. Worsting 7. Concrete Analysis of a Concrete Situation 8. Civil War 9. Authority 10. From Bad to Worse 11. We are Biomass 12. The End of the World 13. Disavowal
SynopsisTo define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek takes the essay as his tool for interrogating rival futures, asking; 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 in the face of unprecedented ecological, social and political crises? In thirteen iconoclastic essays, 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 whirl wind 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?, In this first book in the new series zizek's Essays , Slavoj zizek asks readers to disrupt fake notions of progress in order to fight for something authentically better., 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?
LC Classification NumberCB151.Z5 2024
