Frankfort School in a Strange Way, Isn't It?

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Stalinism and fascism are not simply regressions to some dark past. They ar deployment of a certain localitarian, whatever we call them, potentials in the project of modernity itself. This is what frederic lenston called nostaljia for me - it pains this horrible question but she's still too fascinated by our pemissive societies. For me, crange topic, but along the same line, the true nostaldic to day. That's why i don't like the novel. But you know, behind this, what you call nostalca is for me, none the less er. And my maybe we share the opinion here.

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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