
An Evening with Slavoj Žižek
Intelligence Squared
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The Limits of Ideology
We are in this strange situation where on the one hand, almost everything seems possible, technologically at the level of private lives. But in the matters of social life, economic decisions and so on, practically nothing is considered possible. And this again, I claim is the work of the material power force, another story of ideology. We can just open up a little bit the space, this confines of ideology, the space which tells us what is possible, what is impossible and so on. Just for example, to do something to make it palpable or sensible how maybe we will not be become immortal,. but maybe we can nonetheless spend a little bit more for healthcare and the educational or whatsoever. It may
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