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Like A Thief In Broad Daylight

Power in the Era of Post-Humanity

Author: Slavoj Žižek  

Like A Thief In Broad Daylight
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The latest analysis from the maverick philosopher on the dark side of technology and power

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The latest analysis from the maverick philosopher on the dark side of technology and power

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The latest analysis from the maverick philosopher on the dark side of technology and powerIn recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world - changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing how, with each new wave of innovation, we find ourselves moving closer and closer to a bizarrely literal realisation of Marx's prediction that 'all that is solid melts into air.' With the automation of work, the virtualisation of money, the dissipation of class communities and the rise of immaterial, intellectual labour, the global capitalist edifice is beginning to crumble, more quickly than ever before-and it is now on the verge of vanishing entirely.But what will come next? Against a backdrop of constant socio-technological upheaval, how could any kind of authentic change take place? In such a context, Zizek argues, there can be no great social triumph - because lasting revolution has already come into the scene, like a thief in broad daylight, stealing into sight right before our very eyes. What we must do now is wake up and see it.Urgent as ever, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight illuminates the new dangers as well as the radical possibilities thrown up by today's technological and scientific advances, and their electrifying implications for us all.

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“zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation”

Žižek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative Guardian
Žižek 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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About the Author

Slavoj Zizek 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.

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Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Published
19th September 2019
Pages
240
ISBN
9780141989198

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