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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
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Såg fram emot en bok om filosofi men fick mest prat om kriget i Ukraina. Väntade på att han skulle bredda perspektiven, han kanske gör det sista sidorna? Kommer aldrig veta, för jag tröttnade. Men samtidigt intressant emellanåt.
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Docked one star for not enough old Socialist Bloc jokes.
Don't worry, there are still more than enough of "as Alenka Zupančič puts it."
Don't worry, there are still more than enough of "as Alenka Zupančič puts it."
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What made this philosophy book so great was something I didn't expect at all-how much of it was about Israel.
The main theme of this book was: pick your looming crisis-the climate crisis, increasingly nutty political discourse in the West, everyday people struggling while billionaires get richer-and how can we avoid it?
The simple answer: act *as if* the crisis has already happened, in order to stop it from happening.
The methodology was Hegelian, which I loved. And of course, Zizek is an icon of socialist political analysis. But the wildest part of this book (written in late 2022/early 2023, published in autumn 2023) was how immediately it was proven right.
Because his analogy for Russia's invasion of Ukraine (which had already happened)? What he foresaw as an immanent attack on Palestine by Israel (which hadn't happened yet). The JUMP SCARE that was sections explaining Itamar Ben-Gvir (who I now know way too much about, unfortunately). Or, sections on Russian officials who said:
"Imagine [that the war in Ukraine] was happening in Africa, or the Middle East. Imagine that Ukraine is Palestine. Imagine Russia is the United States."
Ummm, yeah. I can imagine that 🥴
And this scarily accurate point spilled over into the other themes of the book: the barbarism of New Right populism and the totalitarianism of Leftist political discourse; Safari subjectivity (how people intervene on the world as if they're not a part of it); how the hypocrisy of Western liberal values is a good thing; and what collective liberation even means.
Highly recommend, a very approachable philosophy book.
The main theme of this book was: pick your looming crisis-the climate crisis, increasingly nutty political discourse in the West, everyday people struggling while billionaires get richer-and how can we avoid it?
The simple answer: act *as if* the crisis has already happened, in order to stop it from happening.
The methodology was Hegelian, which I loved. And of course, Zizek is an icon of socialist political analysis. But the wildest part of this book (written in late 2022/early 2023, published in autumn 2023) was how immediately it was proven right.
Because his analogy for Russia's invasion of Ukraine (which had already happened)? What he foresaw as an immanent attack on Palestine by Israel (which hadn't happened yet). The JUMP SCARE that was sections explaining Itamar Ben-Gvir (who I now know way too much about, unfortunately). Or, sections on Russian officials who said:
"Imagine [that the war in Ukraine] was happening in Africa, or the Middle East. Imagine that Ukraine is Palestine. Imagine Russia is the United States."
Ummm, yeah. I can imagine that 🥴
And this scarily accurate point spilled over into the other themes of the book: the barbarism of New Right populism and the totalitarianism of Leftist political discourse; Safari subjectivity (how people intervene on the world as if they're not a part of it); how the hypocrisy of Western liberal values is a good thing; and what collective liberation even means.
Highly recommend, a very approachable philosophy book.
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We're fucked, I guess
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if you follow zizek periodically this is nothing new (much of what he writes here can be easily found through different youtube interviews), but he is such nicer to follow on the page rather that listen him talk. even if he abundantly makes it clear that we (the ones who want to consider themselves leftists) should and must stand on the Ukraine side during this ongoing war, zizek takes the effort to actually extricates the implications of such a statement. very insightful and approachable even if written from a guy who studies lacan and hegel for fun; three stars just because much of it I already knew and I expected more philosophy than present politics. but that's what you get from not reading the blurbs. like, ever.