COMRADELY GREETINGS: THE PRISON LETTERS OF NADYA AND SLAVOJ

 

by NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA and SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

Introduction by Michel Eltchaninoff

 

A fascinating exchange between the punk-philosopher and the philosopher-punk

 

“An extraordinary exchange of letters.”– Guardian

 

http://www.versobooks.com/books/1688-comradely-greetings

 

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”We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to a destiny that gave us sharp ears, allowing us to sound the note A when everyone else is used to hearing G flat.”

 

In an extraordinary exchange of letters, NADEZHDA TOLOKONNIKOVA, imprisoned for taking part in Pussy Riot’s anti-Putin performance, and Slovenian philosopher SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK discuss artistic subversion, political activism, and the future of democracy via the ideas of Hegel, Deleuze, Nietzsche, and even Laurie Anderson. 

 

Two radicals, one in a Russian forced labor camp, the other writing to her from far outside its walls, show passionately – across linguistic and generational divides – that “there is still a common cause worth fighting for.” Touching, erudite, and worldly, their correspondence unfolds with poetic urgency.

 

Read extracts of the letters published in the Guardian http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1710-nadya-tolokonnikova-of-pussy-riot-s-prison-letters-to-slavoj-zizek

 

In association with Philosophie Magazine

 

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Read Nadya’s recent interview in the Guardian here

http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1709-nadya-tolokonnikova-interviewed-in-the-guardian-i-suppose-we-have-nothing-more-to-lose

 

 

NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA is a Russian conceptual artist, activist, and one of the founding members of Pussy Riot. Sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for her political activities, she was until recently held captive in a prison hospital in Siberia.

 

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. 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. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.

 

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Join Slavoj at the following events:

 

October 07, 2014

Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre

The Myth of Western Liberty – Slavoj Zizek in conversation with Paul Mason.

http://www.versobooks.com/events/935-the-myth-of-western-liberty

 

October 08, 2014

London Review Bookshop

Hegel's Counter-Punch: Slavoj Žižek with John Milbank

http://www.versobooks.com/events/945-hegel-s-counter-punch-slavoj-zizek-with-john-milbank

 

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“An extraordinary exchange of letters.”
– Guardian

 

“Elegant and feisty”
– Ms. Magazine

 

 “Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj Žižek ... one of the world’s bestknown public intellectuals.”
– John Gray (in praise of Less Than Nothing), New York Review of Books.

 

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PAPERBACK: September 2014 / 112 pages / ISBN: 9781781687734 / £5.99 / $10 / $12 (Can)

 

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