Against Progress

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781350515857 Author(s): Slavoj A…Â?iA…Âlek Format: Paperback Year: 2024 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Pages: 192 Series: A…Â?iA…Âlek's Essays

Description: 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?

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