Slavoj Žižek
Dr Slavoj Žižek, professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School, is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London and the author of "Heaven in Disorder."
Dr Slavoj Žižek, professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School, is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London and the author of "Heaven in Disorder."
If our world is becoming full of poets and executioners, we need more judges and thinkers to counter the new tendency.
The choice is not one hardline faction or the other; it is between fundamentalists and all those who still believe in the possibility of peaceful co-existence.
If we believe that things will fall into place by just letting them take their course, we will end up with multiple catastrophes.
Whenever a country’s social contract unravels, conditions become ripe for rumours and absurdities to circulate.
We need people like Assange to force such reckonings – to make us see “those in the darkness.”
A massive expansion of AI capabilities is a serious threat to those in power – including those who develop, own, and control AI. It points to nothing less than the end of capitalism as we know it.
Those who would claim neutrality forfeit their standing to complain about the horrors of colonisation anywhere.
Russia’s reversion to warlordism is fuelled by a religious fundamentalism.
If our world is becoming full of poets and executioners, we need more judges and thinkers to counter the new tendency.
The choice is not one hardline faction or the other; it is between fundamentalists and all those who still believe in the possibility of peaceful co-existence.
If we believe that things will fall into place by just letting them take their course, we will end up with multiple catastrophes.
Whenever a country’s social contract unravels, conditions become ripe for rumours and absurdities to circulate.
We need people like Assange to force such reckonings – to make us see “those in the darkness.”
A massive expansion of AI capabilities is a serious threat to those in power – including those who develop, own, and control AI. It points to nothing less than the end of capitalism as we know it.
Those who would claim neutrality forfeit their standing to complain about the horrors of colonisation anywhere.
Russia’s reversion to warlordism is fuelled by a religious fundamentalism.
For political figures like Trump and Putin, courage is redefined as a willingness to break the state’s laws if the state’s own interests – or their own – demand it. The implication is that civilisation endures only if there are brave patriots who will do the dirty work. This is a decidedly right-wing form of “heroism.” It is easy to act nobly on behalf of one’s country – short of sacrificing one’s life for it – but only the strong of heart can bring themselves to commit crimes for it.
Ethical progress produces a beneficial form of dogmatism.