EPISODE · Sep 20, 2018 · 8H 5M
Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Humanity (Authored by Slavoj žižek)
from Access Premium Digital Audiobooks in High Quality · host Slavoj žižek
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/346318 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Humanity Author: Slavoj žižek Narrator: Jamie East Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 20, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook of Like A Thief In Broad Daylight by Slavoj Žižek read by Jamie East. In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world - changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing how, with each new wave of innovation, we find ourselves moving closer and closer to a bizarrely literal realisation of Marx's prediction that 'all that is solid melts into air.' With the automation of work, the virtualisation of money, the dissipation of class communities and the rise of immaterial, intellectual labour, the global capitalist edifice is beginning to crumble, more quickly than ever before-and it is now on the verge of vanishing entirely. But what will come next? Against a backdrop of constant socio-technological upheaval, how could any kind of authentic change take place? In such a context, Zizek argues, there can be no great social triumph - because lasting revolution has already come into the scene, like a thief in broad daylight, stealing into sight right before our very eyes. What we must do now is wake up and see it. Urgent as ever, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight illuminates the new dangers as well as the radical possibilities thrown up by today's technological and scientific advances, and their electrifying implications for us all. Žižek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative - Guardian Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation - New Yorker
Embed this episode
NOW PLAYING
Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Humanity (Authored by Slavoj žižek)
No transcript for this episode yet
Similar Episodes
No similar episodes found.
Similar Podcasts
No similar podcasts found.