Questions From the Floor and Twitter

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iiris: I think your attachment and almost obsession with plenitude and being anlinil play of ideas is a young idea, the generative. That that so overwhelms whatever oppressive tendencies you might have, that if you were appointed dictator of whatever you would just go off and write more books. And i will tell you story, very brief one. Don't be afraid. No time. That's what i like. And even i hope be like this. They are all my friends i know who will be so ubly. On the other hand, tis are difficult theoretical questions. We neet another two hours. Let's get to thehowillbe then question here them

This bonus episode features audio from the Holberg Debate in Bergen, Norway between Tyler and Slavoj Žižek held on December 7, 2019. They discuss the reasons Slavoj (still) considers himself a Communist, why he calls The Handmaid’s Tale “nostalgia for the present,” what he likes about Greta Thunberg, what Marx got right about the commodification of beliefs, his concerns about ecology and surveillance in communist states like China today, the reasons academia should maintain its ‘useless character,’ his beginnings as a Heideggerian, why he is distrustful of liberal optimism, the “Fukuyama dilemma” we face, the importance of “empty manners,” and more.

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