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46 reviews for:
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism
Slavoj Žižek
3.44 AVERAGE
46 reviews for:
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism
Slavoj Žižek
3.44 AVERAGE
This is what it feels like to read Žižek:
This is not one of his most obscure works, but I still feel a little bit like I forgot to do my homework. While I was familiar with most of the pop culture references he uses, I hadn't seen some of the movies he mentions, so proceed with caution if you don't like spoilers, I guess.
While I wish Žižek had spoken about a few things with more nuance, I can reconcile any disagreements I have with him with his self-awareness and the fact that he seems to have his heart in the right place. I learned a bunch of things and re-considered some of my beliefs, so if you have a knee-jerk reaction to anything he says at the beginning of the book, I suggest you keep reading, because some of his most controversial comments get re-contextualised later on. A very interesting read.
This is not one of his most obscure works, but I still feel a little bit like I forgot to do my homework. While I was familiar with most of the pop culture references he uses, I hadn't seen some of the movies he mentions, so proceed with caution if you don't like spoilers, I guess.
While I wish Žižek had spoken about a few things with more nuance, I can reconcile any disagreements I have with him with his self-awareness and the fact that he seems to have his heart in the right place. I learned a bunch of things and re-considered some of my beliefs, so if you have a knee-jerk reaction to anything he says at the beginning of the book, I suggest you keep reading, because some of his most controversial comments get re-contextualised later on. A very interesting read.
"The lesson of the last decades is that neither massive grassroots protests as we've seen in Spain and Greece, nor well organised political movements parties with elaborated political visions are enough. We also need a narrow striking force of dedicated engineers, hackers, whistleblowers organised as a disciplined, conspiratorial group. Its task will be to take over the digital grid to rip it out of the hands of corporations and state agencies that now de facto control it. Wiki Leaks was here just the beginning, and our motto should be here a Maoist one: Let a hundred Wikileaks blossom."
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
The opening and closing essays are fantastic, while the other meander a bit. The section about Lubitsch was pretty unnecessary. I'd love to hear Zizek talk a bit more about the whole concept of post-human capital.
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Jeg beklager min aggressive «Want To Read»-aktivitet. Det finnes en funksjon for å mute meg, vennligst benytt denne hvis dere føler dere plaget.
Jeg beklager min aggressive «Want To Read»-aktivitet. Det finnes en funksjon for å mute meg, vennligst benytt denne hvis dere føler dere plaget.
informative
medium-paced
Lots of lefty books this year. Like Capitalist Realism - and like so many books of it's kind - it spends a lot of time doing extended film reviews and calling it philosophy, and that's ok. It's better than real philosophy.
Disappointed the audiobook isn't read by the man himself though. It just doesn't sound right in anyone else's voice.
Disappointed the audiobook isn't read by the man himself though. It just doesn't sound right in anyone else's voice.
If one scraps the namedropping (14! names on page 1), unfounded assertions, needlessly obscure appeals to Hegels or Lacans authority, copypasta'd Wikipedia entries and random asides, a couple of decent The Guardian op-eds remain.
challenging
medium-paced
The most frustrating thing about this book is that there's lots of great nuggets of thought and argument. When you really dig, you can see the points accreting at times. But the collection of essays feels like he just needed to get something out and published. Lots of the argument feels lazy, and much of the "me too" felt fully half-assed. The movie analysis and jokes make it appear accessible, and it would be, if he bothered tying his thoughts together instead of just stacking them one on top of the other.
Good old Zizek
The thing with Slavoj is if you’ve read one you’ve kinda read em all. Here he offers the usual mix of jokes and analysis ladled with many a bit of counterintuitive reasoning but much is recycled and there’s a flair to his delivery that sometimes looks like laziness.
The thing with Slavoj is if you’ve read one you’ve kinda read em all. Here he offers the usual mix of jokes and analysis ladled with many a bit of counterintuitive reasoning but much is recycled and there’s a flair to his delivery that sometimes looks like laziness.