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ZIZ010 Materialism and Theology (2007)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The New Opium for the Masses

The first premise of materialist ecology is nature doesn't exist, like La Conse, La Fam, exist the past. The ultimate lesson of Darwinism is exact opposite, namely that nature tinker and improvises with great losses and catastrophes accompany every limited success. At numerous points in the past, life could have turned into an entirely different direction. There is no previous standard to which this would be the practical advice for ecological politics, to which we can return. I'm totally pro-ecolopist. But we have to drop this idea that there is an ultimate point of reference, nature, like mother nature, balanced universe, which we should somehow return. Nature is already

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