Why Not This?

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I like these totally concrete, empirical problems. I'm not waiting for a big revolution. I just am. For somebody who may sound so bom bombastic at pretences, like me, you know, strange as it will sound, but i don't know everything. But one thing i crave is to one day just see you writing about a question like the electric tram in bergen. Should it go through a tunnel or not? And you would not be allowed to mention fukiame. You couldn't use the sea word capitalism or communism, and just analyze that question. Those, to me, are in seris erla. Question, whichever, mister denbis, i

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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