"As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos.
Acknowledging the possibilities for new beginnings at such moments, Mao Zedong famously proclaimed, 'There is great disorder under heaven; the situation is excellent.' The contemporary relevance of Mao's observation depends on whether today's catastrophes can be a catalyst for progress or have passed over into something terrible and irretrievable. Perhaps the disorder is no longer under, but in heaven itself. Characteristically rich in paradoxes and reversals that entertain as well as illuminate, Slavoj Žižek's new book treats with equal analytical depth the lessons of Rammstein and Corbyn, Morales and Orwell, Lenin and Christ. It excavates universal truths from local political sites across Palestine and Chile, France and Kurdistan, and beyond.
Heaven In Disorder looks with fervid dispassion at the fracturing of the Left, the empty promises of liberal democracy, and the tepid compromises offered by the powerful. From the ashes of these failures, Žižek asserts the need for international solidarity, economic transformation, and—above all—an urgent, 'wartime' communism."
"Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World: We live in a moment when the greatest act of love is to stay distant from the object of your affection. When governments renowned for ruthless cuts in public spending can suddenly conjure up trillions. When toilet paper becomes a commodity as precious as diamonds. And when, according to Slavoj iek, a new form of communism-the outlines of which can already be seen in the very heartlands of neoliberalism-may be the only way of averting a descent into global barbarism. Written with his customary brio and love of analogies in popular culture (Quentin Tarantino and H. G. Wells sit next to Hegel and Marx), iek provides a concise and provocative snapshot of the COVID-19 crisis as it widens, engulfing us all. Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost: iek delves into some of the more surprising dimensions of lockdowns, quarantines, and social distancing-and the increasingly unruly opposition to them by 'response fatigued' publics around the planet. Here, iek examines the ripple effects on the food supply of harvest failures caused by labor shortages and the hyper-exploitation of the global class of care workers, without whose labor daily life would be impossible. Through such examples he pinpoints the inability of contemporary capitalism to effectively safeguard the public in times of crisis.
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"Slavoj Žižek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society."
"Mit Zizek wird eine Stimme laut, die man, inmitten heutiger Harmlosigkeiten, kaum überhören kann: ein entfesselter Querdenker, ein Irrwisch auf der Bühne, ein explosives Gemisch aus Provokation und Pointenfeuerwerkerei - Zizek ist ein Ereignis! Im Faktor X geht es um den tieferen Sinn, um jene theologische Dimension, die sich in der Leere auftut - um die 'Verheißung von mehr, das Versprechen eines unergründlichen Genießens, dessen wahrer Ort die Phantasie ist' und welches immer, in jeder Ware mitklingt. Mit der Verbindung zwischen Leere und Ware als Ausgangspunkt, rollt Zizek die Geschichte des Westens auf: von der griechischen Vase - dem rätselhaften Ding, das um eine zentrale Leere herum geformt ist - bis zum Kinder-Überraschungsei. Und schließlich findet er zu einer eindeutigen Homologie zwischem dem hohlen Ei und der Struktur des bürgerlichen Subjekts...
Inhalt: Das unergründliche Genießen / 'Void' oder der reine Schein / Leere und Ware / Faktor X / Die Ur-Form der Gabe: Scheiße / The Land Before Time / Die unmögliche Universalität / Ideologie heute / Homo sucker / Moralisches Glück / Der Muselman / Brauchen wir Gott wirklich? / Der Glaube und das schreckliche Wunder / Am Ende der Psychoanalyse"
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