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Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek

Writing for PS since 2022
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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, most recently, of Heaven in Disorder (OR Books, 2021).

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  1. Artificial Idiocy
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    Artificial Idiocy

    Mar 23, 2023 Slavoj Žižek fears that the rise of powerful chatbots will spell the death of irony and nuance in human thought.

  2. The Slippery Slope of Occupation
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    The Slippery Slope of Occupation

    Mar 1, 2023 Slavoj Žižek sees Israel heading down a dangerous path toward annexation of the West Bank and full-scale apartheid.

  3. The Dark Side of Neutrality
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    The Dark Side of Neutrality

    Feb 17, 2023 Slavoj Žižek dismantles the justifications by Western “pacifists” and nonaligned countries for refusing to support Ukraine.

  4. Death or Glory in Russia
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    Death or Glory in Russia

    Feb 1, 2023 Slavoj Žižek traces the religious and intellectual roots of the Kremlin’s increasingly morbid war propaganda.

  5. Eating the Last Cannibal
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    Eating the Last Cannibal

    Dec 30, 2022 Slavoj Žižek worries about the implications of politicians openly embracing the dark side of modern civilization.

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    Accounting for Casino Capitalism

    Hans-Werner Sinn draws parallels between recent bank collapses and the late-nineteenth-century “founders’ crash.”
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    Who Should Be Bailed Out Next?

    Simon Zadek urges rich-country governments to aid debt-distressed poor countries as urgently as they have their failing banks.
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    The Population Boon

    Beniamino Callegari & Per Espen Stoknes correct popular myths about the threat of demographic growth to sustainable development.
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    Where Is the Global South’s Rescue Brigade?

    Vera Songwe decries the unequal responses to liquidity crises in Silicon Valley compared to the developing world.
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    Beyond Industrial Policy

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Elizabeth Garlow

    The emerging breed of industrial policies, which emphasize production, fair wages, and localism, could serve as the basis for post-neoliberal economies. But to tackle the challenges of the twenty-first century and ensure a sustainable future, we need a policy framework that recognizes the value of human connection.

     make the case for an economic strategy that prioritizes shared prosperity over competition.
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    The Other Conflict on Europe’s Doorstep

    Anders Fogh Rasmussen warns that Azerbaijan may be preparing to renew its military aggression against neighboring Armenia.
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    Let the Banks Burn

    Yanis Varoufakis

    The banking system we take for granted is unfixable. The good news is that we no longer need to rely on any private, rent-seeking, socially destabilizing network of banks, at least not the way we have so far.

     shows why the current private system is unfixable – and why we don’t need to tolerate it anymore.
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    How China Benefits from Another US Banking Crisis

    Stephen S. Roach thinks America’s latest financial trouble will reinforce a narrative of terminal national decline.
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    Xi Jinping’s Chinese Tragedy

    Orville Schell interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross about the country's increasingly worrisome trajectory, both at home and abroad.

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