Against Progress

What does ''progress'' mean? Can things get better? And how, when we are constantly battered on all sides by deepfakes, doomers and disorienting relativisms, can we make any headway at all in the face of unprecedented ecological, social and political crises? In this collection of iconoclastic essays, Slavoj Zizek disrupts the death-grip that neoliberalists, Trumpian populists, toxic self-improvement industries and accelerationists alike have established on the idea of progress. In a whirlwind tour that takes in everything from gentrification to the theory of relativity, Lacan to Lenin, Putin to Mary Poppins and Taylor Swift to the end of the world, these essays never stop asking hard questions of imagined futures. Nor does Zizek shrink from the hardest question of all: How do we free ourselves from the hypocritical, guilt-ridden dreaming in which we''re enmeshed, and begin to build a better world?>

Product details

• Authors: Slavoj Žižek, Slavoj Zizek, Slavoj (Birkbeck Institute for Humanities Zizek, Slavoj Žižek
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2024
• EAN: 9781350515857
• ISBN: 978-1-350-51585-7
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Žižek's Essays
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism