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Like A Thief In Broad Daylight

Like A Thief In Broad Daylight

Power in the Era of Post-Humanity

by Slavoj Zizek
Paperback
Publication Date: 03/12/2019

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The latest analysis from the maverick philosopher on the dark side of technology and power.

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.

ISBN:
9780141989198
9780141989198
Category:
Social & political philosophy
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-12-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x14mm
Weight:
0.18kg
Slavoj Zizek

Slavoj Zizek is a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, USA, and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London, UK.

His recent books include The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously (2017) and Disparities (Bloomsbury, 2016).

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