The Limits of Ideology

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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

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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