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Too Late to Awaken
- What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future?
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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We hear all the time that we're moments from doomsday. Around us, crises interlock and escalate, threatening our collective survival: Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with its rising risk of nuclear warfare, is taking place against a backdrop of global warming, ecological breakdown, and widespread social and economic unrest. Protestors and politicians repeatedly call for action, but still we continue to drift towards disaster. We need to do something. But what if the only way for us to prevent catastrophe is to assume that it has already happened - to accept that we're already five minutes past zero hour?
Too Late to Awaken sees Slavoj Žižek forge a vital new space for a radical emancipatory politics that could avert our course to self-destruction. He illuminates why the liberal Left has so far failed to offer this alternative, and exposes the insidious propagandism of the fascist Right, which has appropriated and manipulated once-progressive ideas. Pithy, urgent, gutting and witty, Žižek's diagnosis reveals our current geopolitical nightmare in a startling new light, and shows how, in order to change our future, we must first focus on changing the past.
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- Stevie Bach
- 04-04-24
Food for thought
Provocative observations. Varied and often surprising cultural references make for an interesting listen. But ultimately it's simply and depresssingly accurate when assessing the human world in 2024. If anyone can recommend a book that makes some more hopeful conclusions I would welcome the chance to read it.
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- William
- 17-11-23
Promise of title not kept
Lots of conventional denunciation of what a mess we are in. Conventional leftwing denunciation of global capitalism being to blame. Lots of handwringing but little original analysis and plethora of Lacan-inspired verbiage.
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