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ZIZ215 Capitalism and its Threats (17.06.2018)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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We Need State Control, but We Cannot Cope With It

capitalism, at least as we know it to day, will not be able to cope with it. Can you imagine all this Tremendous thing of digital control, wiring our brains, to be left to private companies? Now they will say, but we need state control. But i agree with julian assange, who wrote a wonderful book, totally ignored, on gugl where he shows that gugel is basically a private counterpoint to an essay. These big corporations are all intensely linked with state apparatus and so on. So again, we have to break out of capitalism here with biogenetic manipulations. Again, it's nightmare if we leave it to free capital with ecology

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