Against Progress

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 Zizek 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 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, guilt-ridden dreaming in which we''re enmeshed, and begin to build a better world?>

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

Autorentext
Slavoj iek 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.

Klappentext

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

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

Inhalt

Editor's note

1. Progress and its Vicissitudes
2. Against Progress
3. Acceleration
4. Holographic History
5. Absolute Invariants
6. Worsting
7. Concrete Analysis of a Concrete Situation
8. Civil War
9. Authority
10. From Bad to Worse
11. We are Biomass
12. The End of the World
13. Disavowal