Against Progress

Name: Against Progress
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing (AUS)
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By: Slavoj Žižek

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Paperback | 28 November 2024

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'Sublime moments from history might be remembered but that story is over, everything should be re-thought, one should begin from the zero-point.' (Slavoj Žižek)

How do we start from a zero-point? We forget the notion of progress or things always getting better. Revolution isn't gradual progress but, rather, a repetitive movement where we start from the beginning again and again. In a whirlwind tour touching upon everything from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, gentrification, Mary Poppins, Einstein's theory of relativity and Taylor Swift, Žižek argues that the forward thrust of history is but an illusion. An uncharacteristically melancholic treatment of both the wars in Ukraine and in Gaza leads us to into a further dimension of progress being an illusion - the sense that some atrocities don't seem governable or terminable.

Žižek asks us to stand still against the flow of time. Speak from the current moment and not some imagined future state. The future is not open, it is not progress. It is the zero-point of nuclear war, ecological breakdown, global economic and social chaos. It has already been spoken for and the end of the world us upon us.

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