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The year of dreaming dangerously

Slavoj Zizek

Buch

englisch

Zizek, Slavoj (Verfasser/-in) DNB

Verso

London

2012

135 p.

978-1-78168-042-1

includes bibliographical references

history
social change
social conflict
revolutions
social history

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.

Contents: Introduction: War nam nihadan -- From domination to exploitation and revolt -- The "dream-work" of political representation -- The return of the evil ethnic thing -- Welcome to the desert of post-ideology -- The Arab winter, spring, summer, and fall -- Occupy Wall Street, or, the violent silence of a new beginning -- The wire, or, what to do in non-evental times -- Beyond envy and resentment -- Conclusion: Signs from the future.

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