To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Žižek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, which have never seemed worse, get better? What would a better world be? And how, when we are constantly besieged by doomers, degrowthers and disorienting relativisms can we make any headway at all in the face of unprecedented ecological, social and political crises?
In thirteen iconoclastic essays, Slavoj Žižek disrupts the death-grip that neoliberalists, Trumpian populists, toxic self-improvement industries and accelerationists alike have established on the idea of progress. Anatomizing what is lost when opponents of the future are allowed to define it, Žižek ruthlessly exposes what different visions of progress exclude or sacrifice and the dynamics of desire, denial and disavowal at work in Hollywood blockbusters, Buddhist economics, decolonization movements and other engines of vision. In a whirlwind tour that takes in everything from gentrification to the theory of relativity, Lacan to Lenin, Putin to Mary Poppins and Marine Le Pen to the end of the world, these essays never stop asking hard questions of imagined futures.
Nor does Žižek shrink from the hardest question of all: How do we free ourselves from the hypocritical, guilt-ridden dreaming in which we're enmeshed, and begin to build a better world?
3 有用 雨宫优子 2025-07-22 17:06:39 浙江
标题是差异,内容是重复
2 有用 茶色蟆口鸱 2024-12-15 19:49:58 中国香港
社会在全方位进步:科技、新自由主义、去殖民化…但是齐泽克把目光放在了进步背后的“squashed birds”上,强调进步应该是个不断自反的过程,而不是永远一脚油门往下踩。他很大程度上预言到了最近一些热门事件:韩国总统弹劾,保险公司ceo被刺…历史的大部分时间无事发生,但也要相信几周内会发生几年内才会发生的变化(如十月革命)。目前左派能做的只能是做审慎的乐观主义者甚至英雄主义者:“Try agai... 社会在全方位进步:科技、新自由主义、去殖民化…但是齐泽克把目光放在了进步背后的“squashed birds”上,强调进步应该是个不断自反的过程,而不是永远一脚油门往下踩。他很大程度上预言到了最近一些热门事件:韩国总统弹劾,保险公司ceo被刺…历史的大部分时间无事发生,但也要相信几周内会发生几年内才会发生的变化(如十月革命)。目前左派能做的只能是做审慎的乐观主义者甚至英雄主义者:“Try again, fail again, fail better.”首先要相信,其次要行动。 (展开)
1 有用 malone-meurt 2025-06-05 18:23:40 甘肃
跟张一兵一样,一本书的读后感能水出来十几篇文章,要是这些断片实在缝合不成一篇文章,那就用阿多诺式的'vulgar sociologism'把它们串联起来,这样还能挣得辩证法的许可 (The proper dialectical approach therefore includes its own suspension, a point of exception which is constitu... 跟张一兵一样,一本书的读后感能水出来十几篇文章,要是这些断片实在缝合不成一篇文章,那就用阿多诺式的'vulgar sociologism'把它们串联起来,这样还能挣得辩证法的许可 (The proper dialectical approach therefore includes its own suspension, a point of exception which is constitutive of the dialectical analysis, p.60)。只有Authority这一篇还算好看。 (展开)
1 有用 () 2025-04-08 18:37:13 广东
牢齊能不能整點新活
0 有用 hikari 2026-02-04 09:09:05 新西兰
没看完还书日期就到了 如果读齐泽克 还是读完整的书而不是论文集 会好一些