Slavoj Zizek talks reasonable leftists off the ledge, driven up in the face of postmodern capitalism and a general state of disarray within 'the cause'. Zizek should be the revolutionary leader of our era, but this spot has been filled by slingers of 'identity politics', e.g. bourgeois youth prea...
The title refers to the two lives a catastrophe has. First the actual tragedy, then the narrative invented for it. This is how the book starts, pointing out the false parables of the western world. There are truly some profound insights. Then Zizek goes off into his case for communism as he u...
Zizek advocates a 'radical upheaval of the basic social relations' and uses the trope of violence to examine how this might be achieved. He is more interested in 'symbolic' and 'systemic' violence than in the normal sense of people hurting each other ('subjective') and shows how the capitalist sy...
Zizek, numa escrita forte, culta e inteligente nos conta, à nós brasileiros, a origem do que se deflagrou de forma explosiva e incisiva nas manifestações de junho de 2013. Mesmo tendo sido escrito muito antes, não podemos deixar de identificar, como o faz o texto final de Mauro Iasi, o trabalho d...
One of my favorite works from Slavoj. Very accessible and easy to read for the average reader (such as myself). I suppose that the failures of this work come from maybe the recycled nature of much of its content (if you've read Zizek before, a lot of what is said is not particularly novel) and th...
Research reading - some really interesting points about the nature of violence, institutional violence and the need for violence to be some kind of representation of those who feel marginalised. A few times I wasn't quite about his point in the debate within feminism - but he's always at his stro...