I think the 20th century is over. I'm consciously offering to a caricature now but this is the model. Like, if only Lenin would survive three, four years longer and were to make pact with Trotsky to get rid of Stalin,. oh, that would have been it and so on. So I don't participate in this dream switch at their most ridiculous. Not many Trotsky's by it, only some of them. Takes the forum off. That we have to, as I wrote somewhere, I forgot where I, as you reminded me, write too many books that that forum is over.
Radical philosopher, polymath, film star, cult icon, and author of over 30 books, Slavoj Žižek is one of the most controversial and leading contemporary public intellectuals, simultaneously acclaimed as the ‘Elvis of cultural theory’ and denounced as ‘the most dangerous philosopher in the West’. In this special lecture for Intelligence Squared from July 2011, Žižek argues that global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis and that our collective responses to economic Armageddon correspond to the five stages of grief – ideological denial, explosions of anger, attempts at bargaining, followed by depression and finally acceptance of change. Referencing everything from Kafka, the "Hollywood Marxism" of Avatar, the Arab Spring and WikiLeaks, he presents a roadmap for finding a way beyond the madness.
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