MAJOR NYC EVENT WITH SLAVOJ ZIZEK, AUTHOR OF BESTSELLING TITLE:
LIVING IN THE END TIMES
*EVENT DETAILS*
Monday 8 November, 7pm, The Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, New
York
Slavoj Zizek will be making a major New York City appearance at Cooper Union to
discuss his most recent book Living in End Times, in which he reveals the signs
of the coming apocalypse and identifies the terminal crisis of global
capitalism.
For more information and to buy tickets go to:
http://livingintheendtimes-julie.eventbrite.com
Tickets: $10 student price / $20 regular price. Booking is essential.
Regular admission includes a FREE copy of Living in the End Times.
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"Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the
counterintuitive observation." New Yorker
"A great provocateur... Zizek writes with passion and an aphoristic energy that
is spellbinding." Los Angeles Times
"The most dangerous philosopher in the West." New Republic
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Zizek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the "four riders of the
apocalypse."
There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its
terminal crisis. Slavoj Zizek has identified the four horsemen of this coming
apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within the economic
system; the biogenetic revolution; and exploding social divisions and ruptures.
But, he asks, if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end of the world,
how is it possible for Western society to face up to the end times? In a major
new analysis of our global situation, Slavoj Zizek argues that our collective
responses to economic Armageddon correspond to the stages of grief: ideological
denial, explosions of anger and attempts at bargaining, followed by depression
and withdrawal.
After passing through this zero-point, we can begin to perceive the crisis as a
chance for a new beginning. Or, as Mao Zedong put it, "There is great disorder
under heaven, the situation is excellent." Slavoj Zizek shows the cultural and
political forms of these stages of ideological avoidance and political protest,
from New Age obscurantism to violent religious fundamentalism. Concluding with a
compelling argument for the return of a Marxian critique of political economy,
Zizek also divines the wellsprings of a potentially communist culture-from
literary utopias like Kafka's community of mice to the collective of freak
outcasts in the TV series Heroes.
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Slavoj Zizek is today's most controversial public intellectual. His work
traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and
political theory, taking in film, popular culture, and literature to provide
acute analyses of the complexities of contemporary ideology as well as a
serious and sophisticated philosophy. The author of over 30 books, Slavoj
Zizek's provocative prose has challenged a generation of activists and
intellectuals. His latest book is Living in the End
Times<http://www.versobooks.com/books/482-living-in-the-end-times>.
Called the "Elvis of cultural theory" and the "greatest intellectual high since
anti-Oedipus" Zizek's work has appeared in the The New York Times, the New
Yorker and The Guardian, and he has appeared in Astra Taylor's feature length
films Zizek! and Examined Life. He is a professor at the European Graduate
School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities,
Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the
Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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ISBN: 978 1 84467 598 2 / $29.95 / 432 pages
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For more information and to buy:
http://www.versobooks.com/books/482-482-living-in-the-end-times
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