Slavoj Zizek has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is Like a Thief in Broad Daylight.
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight
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In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world - changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new audiobook, 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.
©2018 Slavoj Žižek (P)2020 Tantor
On Practice and Contradiction (Revolutions Series)
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These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporary culture and politics, Zizek's firecracker commentary reaches unsettling conclusions about the place of Mao's thought in the revolutionary canon.
©2007 Verso (editorial matter), Slavoj Zizek (P)2011 Audible Ltd
Faktor X. Das Ding und die Leere
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Mit Zizek wird eine Stimme laut, die man, inmitten heutiger Harmlosigkeiten, kaum überhören kann: ein entfesselter Querdenker, ein Irrwisch auf der Bühne, ein explosives Gemisch aus Provokation und Pointenfeuerwerkerei - Zizek ist ein Ereignis! Im Faktor X geht es um den tieferen Sinn, um jene theologische Dimension, die sich in der Leere auftut - um die "Verheißung von mehr, das Versprechen eines unergründlichen Genießens, dessen wahrer Ort die Phantasie ist" und welches immer, in jeder Ware mitklingt. Mit der Verbindung zwischen Leere und Ware als Ausgangspunkt, rollt Zizek die Geschichte des Westens auf: von der griechischen Vase - dem rätselhaften Ding, das um eine zentrale Leere herum geformt ist - bis zum Kinder-Überraschungsei. Und schließlich findet er zu einer eindeutigen Homologie zwischem dem hohlen Ei und der Struktur des bürgerlichen Subjekts...
(c)+(p) 2004 Supposé
Pandemic! & Pandemic! 2
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Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World: We live in a moment when the greatest act of love is to stay distant from the object of your affection. When governments renowned for ruthless cuts in public spending can suddenly conjure up trillions. When toilet paper becomes a commodity as precious as diamonds. And when, according to Slavoj Žižek, a new form of communism - the outlines of which can already be seen in the very heartlands of neoliberalism - may be the only way of averting a descent into global barbarism. Written with his customary brio and love of analogies in popular culture (Quentin Tarantino and H. G. Wells sit next to Hegel and Marx), Žižek provides a concise and provocative snapshot of the COVID-19 crisis as it widens, engulfing us all. Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost: Žižek delves into some of the more surprising dimensions of lockdowns, quarantines, and social distancing - and the increasingly unruly opposition to them by "response fatigued" publics around the planet. Here, Žižek examines the ripple effects on the food supply of harvest failures caused by labor shortages and the hyper-exploitation of the global class of care workers, without whose labor daily life would be impossible. Through such examples he pinpoints the inability of contemporary capitalism to effectively safeguard the public in times of crisis.
©2020, 2021 Slavoj Zizek (P)2021 Tantor
The Sublime Object of Ideology
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Slavoj Žižek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.
©2009 Slavoj Zizek (P)2021 Tantor
Terrorism and Communism (Revolutions Series)
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Soon after the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky led the Red Army against the counter-revolutionary White armies. Written in the white heat of the Civil War, "Terrorism and Communism" is one of the most potent defences of revolutionary dictatorship of the twentieth century. In his provocative commentary in this new edition, the coruscating critic Slavoj Zizek argues that Trotsky's attack on the illusions of democracy has a vital relevance to today.
©2007 Verso (editorial matter), Slavoj Zizek (P)2011 Audible Ltd