Like a Thief in Broad Daylight, Slavoj Zizek
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight, Slavoj Zizek
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Like a Thief in Broad Daylight
Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

Author: Slavoj Zizek

Narrator: Jamie East

Unabridged: 8 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/16/2020


Synopsis

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 realization of Marx's prediction that "all that is solid melts into air." With the automation of work, the virtualization of money, the dissipation of class communities, and the rise of immaterial, intellectual labor, 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.

About Slavoj Zizek

Slavoj Žižek is one of the most prolific and well-known philosophers and cultural theorists in the world today. His inventive, provocative body of work mixes Hegelian metaphysics, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Marxist dialectic in order to challenge conventional wisdom and accepted verities on both the left and the right.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Malin on October 10, 2018

Where else can you get a Hegelian analysis of Blade runner...?......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on January 13, 2019

Let me first say I hate reviews. I was torn between giving this a 3 or a 4-star review. But I’m going ahead with 4, because I knew what I was getting into. This book is Žižek at his most Žižekian: great diagnoses of global economic and cultural issues — generally lackluster solutions proposed. I’ll......more

Goodreads review by David on May 20, 2019

I always look forward to the next Slavoj Zizek production. He is not only entertaining, but he combines the unique loves of philosophy, the Left, and western pop culture into books and films that have messages galore for all. That is why I am disappointed in Like A Thief In Broad Daylight. It is the......more

Goodreads review by David on March 17, 2024

"The lesson of the last decades is that neither massive grassroots protests as we've seen in Spain and Greece, nor well organised political movements parties with elaborated political visions are enough. We also need a narrow striking force of dedicated engineers, hackers, whistleblowers organised a......more

Goodreads review by on May 18, 2020

The essays here aren't consistent in quality by any measure, but the stuff that's worth keeping is good enough to warrant the fluff. Zizek moves from subject to subject, not like a ballerina flowing in graceful movements, instead, it is more akin to watching a very fat man who often slurs his words......more