Like A Thief In Broad Daylight
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Like A Thief In Broad Daylight by Slavoj Zizek
In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world - changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing how, with each new wave of innovation, we find ourselves moving closer and closer to a bizarrely literal realisation of Marx's prediction that 'all that is solid melts into air.' With the automation of work, the virtualisation of money, the dissipation of class communities and the rise of immaterial, intellectual labour, the global capitalist edifice is beginning to crumble, more quickly than ever before-and it is now on the verge of vanishing entirely. But what will come next? Against a backdrop of constant socio-technological upheaval, how could any kind of authentic change take place? In such a context, Zizek argues, there can be no great social triumph - because lasting revolution has already come into the scene, like a thief in broad daylight, stealing into sight right before our very eyes. What we must do now is wake up and see it. Urgent as ever, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight illuminates the new dangers as well as the radical possibilities thrown up by today's technological and scientific advances, and their electrifying implications for us all.
Žižek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative * Guardian *
Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation * New Yorker *
The most dangerous philosopher in the West -- Adam Kirsch * New Republic *
Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation * New Yorker *
The most dangerous philosopher in the West -- Adam Kirsch * New Republic *
Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and Eminent Scholar at Kyung-Hee University, Seoul. His previous books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Trouble in Paradise and, most recently, The Courage of Hopelessness.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241364291 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241364299 |
| Title | Like A Thief In Broad Daylight |
| Author | Slavoj Zizek |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2018-09-20 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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