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The Capitalist Gaze

Žižek And So On

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The Reversal Is the Unhappiness of the Commons

The idea that you can escape the ravages of modern society by returning to nature is as prominent today as it was in the sixties and seventies. Yeli goll just as tagt is saying that capitalism appears natural, it's also clear that nature exists as a very much n ideological formation within capitalismyet exactly thet you can escape capitalism by returning tonature is still a function of capitalist ideology. E it doesn't really challenge the system. Ther likea common unhappiness. O the reversal is the unhappiness of the commons. And i think that's where the political emerges.

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