Against Progress

ISBN-13: 9781350515857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 192 str.

Slavoj Žižek

Opis

What does ‘progress’ mean? Can things get better? And how, when we are constantly battered
on all sides by deepfakes, doomers and disorienting relativisms,can we make any headway at all
in the face of unprecedented ecological, social and political crises?

In this collection of iconoclastic essays, Slavoj Žižek disrupts the deathgrip that neoliberalists,
Trumpian populists, toxic self-improvement industries and accelerationists alike have established
on the idea of progress. In a whirlwind tour that takes in everything from gentrification 
to the theory of relativity, Lacan to Lenin, Putin to Mary Poppins and Taylor Swift to the end of the world,
these essays never stop asking hard questions of imagined futures.
Nor does Zizek shrink from the hardest question of all: How do we free ourselves from the hypocritical, guiltridden dreaming in which we’re enmeshed, and begin to build a better world?