Against Progress

Author: Slavoj Žižek Series: Žižek's Essays

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In this first book in the new series Žižek’s Essays, Slavoj Žižek asks readers to disrupt fake notions of progress in order to fight for something authentically better.

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In this first book in the new series Žižek’s Essays, Slavoj Žižek asks readers to disrupt fake notions of progress in order to fight for something authentically better.

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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 i ek disrupts the death-grip 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 Kierkegaard to the end of the world, these essays never stop asking hard questions of imagined futures. Nor does i ek shrink from the hardest question of all- How do we free ourselves from the hypocritical, guilt-ridden dreaming in which we're enmeshed, and begin to build a better world?

About the Author

Slavoj i ek 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.