The Mystery of Commodity Fetishism

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I think this precisely was my point that and this is how so-called cynical reason function. Slaughter dyke, the German guy who already 30 years ago now I think in his first big book, Critic of Cynical Reason, proposed this formula turning around Marxist formula,. Zivisinta sneaked abur Zittunes. They don't know what they are doing but they are doing it. This is why I think I mentioned before all those paradoxes of objectified belief. Like you don't believe but you follow a belief materialized in your social practical activity. And I claim Marx knew it. Read capital carefully what Marx says there. No capitalist is as stupid as to

Radical philosopher, polymath, film star, cult icon, and author of over 30 books, Slavoj Žižek is one of the most controversial and leading contemporary public intellectuals, simultaneously acclaimed as the ‘Elvis of cultural theory’ and denounced as ‘the most dangerous philosopher in the West’. In this special lecture for Intelligence Squared from July 2011, Žižek argues that global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis and that our collective responses to economic Armageddon correspond to the five stages of grief – ideological denial, explosions of anger, attempts at bargaining, followed by depression and finally acceptance of change. Referencing everything from Kafka, the "Hollywood Marxism" of Avatar, the Arab Spring and WikiLeaks, he presents a roadmap for finding a way beyond the madness.

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