Changes

The maverick [[philosopher ]] returns to explore today's idealogical, [[political ]] and [[economic ]] battles, and asks whether radical [[change ]] is possible

In these troubled [[times]], even the most [[pessimistic ]] diagnosis of our [[future ]] ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Yet, argues [[Slavoj Žižek]], it is only when we have admit to ourselves that our [[situation ]] is completely hopeless - that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a train approaching us from the opposite direction - that fundamental change can be brought [[about]].

Surveying the various challenges in the [[world ]] today, from mass migration and geopolitical tensions to [[terrorism]], the explosion of rightist [[populism ]] and the emergence of new radical [[politics ]] - all of which, in their own way, express the impasses of [[global ]] [[capitalism ]] - Žižek explores whether there still remains the possibility for genuine change. Today, he proposes, the only [[true ]] question is,or should be, this: do we endorse the predominant acceptance of capitalism as fact of [[human ]] [[nature]], or does today's capitalism contain strong enough [[antagonisms ]] to prevent its infinite reproduction? Can we, he asks, move beyond the failure of [[socialism]], and beyond the current wave of populist rage, and initiate radical change before the train hits?

'Žižek is a thinker who regards [[nothing ]] as [[outside ]] his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative' - Guardian

'Žižek leaves no [[social ]] or [[cultural ]] phenomenon untheorized, and is [[master ]] of the counterintuitive observation' -New Yorker