Slavoj Žižek: The Day After the Revolution (June, 2017)
"What interests me more and more is the day after. The only measure of the greatness of the event is how it succeeds in structuring everyday life. For me, the truly interesting part is where failure takes place. The real battle was after the October Revolution when the most elementary rituals of everyday life had to be reinvented." www.circulobellasartes.com/me...
Times of Israel interview with Slavoj Žižek (Celeb philosopher: After pandemic, ‘World as we know it will be just nostalgia’) (20 June 2020/ www.timesofisrael.com/celeb-p...)
Slavoj Žižek: "Humanism was always a part of me. When people talked about revolution, I said that the moment when hundreds of thousands of protestors stood on Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul or in Syntagma Square in Athens doesn’t interest me. What does interest me is the way that lives of ordinary people will change after such events.
That has been my main focus, to respect the ordinary person - one who is immersed in the daily struggle to survive: looking for work, for money to pay school tuition for his children. His problems are not communism or any other ideology.
When I speak of the changes in our lives due to the epidemic, those topics can cause me to panic. Will there be enough food in the world, for everyone? When a famine does occur, how will we work together? We are only at the beginning of the climate crisis, in which there will be huge consequences. What will the morning after look like?"
Times of Israel: Let’s talk about the morning after.
Slavoj Žižek: "I don’t think that the primary threat is a regression to barbarism and survivalist violence. I fear a “human-faced barbarism” - a survival through inhuman means forced upon us regretfully and even with sympathy, based upon the advice of experts, along with messages that undermine the cornerstone of our social ethics. For example, how do we deal with the elderly and the feeble? They must be helped without terms and without consideration of the costs."
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