In our brave new world of Big Tech, work is automated and money melts into air. What comes next as the global capitalist edifice crumbles? Slavoj iek shows how the answer is already stealing into sight, like a thief in broad daylight. What we must do is wake up and see it.
'In a world determined to crush hope of radical change, where moral corruption poses as pragmatism and systemic oppression as the new freedom, Slavoj iek's excellent new book serves humanity in a way that only authentic philosophy can' Yanis Varoufakis
'The Elvis of cultural theory' New Statesman
'Master of the counterintuitive observation' New Yorker
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iek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative * Guardian * iek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation * New Yorker * In a world determined to crush hope of radical change, where moral corruption poses as pragmatism and systemic oppression as the new freedom, Slavoj Zizek's excellent new book serves humanity in a way that only authentic philosophy can -- Yanis Varoufakis
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The latest analysis from the maverick philosopher on the dark side of technology and power.
Slavoj iek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
