Living in the End Times by Slavoj Žižek | Book review
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Living in the End Times by Slavoj Žižek | Book review
Terry Eagleton reviews Trouble in Paradise and Absolute Recoil by Slavoj Žižek “It is said that Jean-Paul Sartre turned white-faced with excitement when a colleague arrived hotfoot from Germany with the news that one could make philosophy out of the ashtray. In these two new books, Slavoj Žižek philosophises in much the same spirit about…
Systems fiction: a novel way to think about the present “At their best, when systems novels veer right into science fiction, they can hold infinity itself in their purview – and none come closer to that than Kim Stanley Robinson. Robinson’s seminal Mars trilogy opens with humanity’s efforts to colonise our cosmic neighbour in Red…
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder – review “The manner in which western populations have broadly accepted the fact of surveillance, and willingly surrendered their identities to social media, has already gone a long way to removing that dividing line between public and private. Snyder counsels extreme caution in rubbing…
Every Culture Appropriates Finally a sensible article on this vital topic: The policemen of cultural appropriation do not think that way. They have a morality tale to tell, one of Western victimization of non-Western peoples—a victimization so extreme that it is triggered by a Western girl’s purchase of a Chinese dress designed precisely so that…
Flag-waving Chinese blockbuster Wolf Warriors 2 smashes cinema records A flag-waving Chinese action film depicting the country’s soldiers saving war-ravaged Africans from western baddies has become China’s all-time top box-office earner, headlining a summer of patriotic cinematic fare. The wildly popular Wolf Warriors 2 boasts the ominous tagline “whoever offends China will be hunted down…
Opinion | The Shame Culture “Many people carefully guard their words, afraid they might transgress one of the norms that have come into existence. Those accused of incorrect thought face ruinous consequences. When a moral crusade spreads across campus, many students feel compelled to post in support of it on Facebook within minutes. If they…