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Bezig met laden... The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerouslydoor Slavoj Žižek
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In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Zizek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless - that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a train approaching us from the opposite direction - that fundamental change can be brought about. Surveying the various challenges in the world today, from mass migration and geopolitical tensions to terrorism, the explosion of rightist populism and the emergence of new radical politics - all of which, in their own way, express the impasses of global capitalism - Zizek explores whether there still remains the possibility for genuine change. Today, he proposes, the only true question is, or should be, this- do we endorse the predominant acceptance of capitalism as a fact of human nature, or does today's capitalism contain strong enough antagonisms to prevent its infinite reproduction? Can we, he asks, move beyond the failure of socialism, and beyond the current wave of populist rage, and initiate radical change before the train hits? Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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He has collected a bouquet of contradictions and paradoxes:
-In China, where the Communist Party is the guardian of capitalism, it is not only illegal to claim workers have the right to self organize, it is illegal to claim it is illegal for workers to self organize.
-In Israel, 60% say they don’t believe in God, but everyone agrees God gave them the land.
-One good thing about religious fundamentalists: they cannot tolerate each other.
-Ayatollah Khomeini was clear: “Islam is politics or it is nothing.”
- All over the western world the Right talks about “taking back” the country (from international trade agreements, the EU, the UN) in order to simply submit it to the tyranny of world markets.
There are chapters on globalization, religion, politics, and inevitably, Donald Trump. The net effect of it all is to put us in a state of near hopelessness. We create paradoxes, ramp up hypocrisy, escalate corruption and double down on grave errors. And it’s not going to change.
Zizek employs the artifice of turning things back on their perpetrators, so that Nazis become Israel’s biggest fans, Muslims and Jews operate the same beliefs, Democrats are the biggest defenders of free trade while Republicans favor protectionism by the government, and the European Left is actually the strongest defender of Muslim rights. It’s easy enough to do, but after a while it becomes just another exercise anyone can perform.
There’s a lot to argue with, too. Zizek thinks communism, which has never been tried successfully anywhere precisely because of the foibles he sees everywhere, is the best of all worlds. And he thinks Americans should have voted blank in 2016, which is not how things work. Low turnout and blank ballots give you results like Brexit, Maduro and Kenyatta Jr.
The world is not getting easier to live in. Every economic system is a threat to somebody. The struggles expand.
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