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Political Philosophy-Dr. Laurie M Johnson

Unsafe and Alive in Zizek’s Post-Ideology (Dreaming Dangerously 5, audio)

Aug 24, 2019
17:35
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I return to an interpretation of Zizek, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, this time chapter 5: “Welcome to the Desert of Post-Ideology.” Zizek, through Lacan, distinguishes the controlled pleasures of capitalistic rationalism from the excessive enjoyment of the unsafe smoker and pointless rioter, and then evaluates what things like the UK riots of 2011 mean for advanced capitalism.

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