History doesn’t always repeat itself but surely it does rhyme from time to time…
A less painful end of the world is indeed necessary and possible to say the least…
52:10 – Beginning of the Lecture by Slavoj Zizek (Intro in German, continues in English)
Inaugural lecture delivered by Slavoj Žižek at the inauguration of the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies on 14 October 2021.
15:20 – Greeting by Bernhard Eitel, Rector of Heidelberg University
23:58 – Welcoming Address by State Secretary Federal MInistry of Education and Research
30:54 – Opening Remarks by Thomas Meier, Director of CAPAS
39:26 – Opening Remarks by Robert Folger, Director of CAPAS
52:10 – Beginning of the Lecture by Slavoj Zizek (Intro in German, continues in English)
1:12:34 – Zizek’s Lecture Part 2: “End of philosophy”
1:41:20 – Zizek’s Segment on Antigone
1:55:20 – Beginning of the Q & A Segment
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“It is easier, someone once said, to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism: and with that the idea of a revolution overthrowing capitalism seems to have vanished.”
~ Fredric Jameson, An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army.
“Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the world.”
~ Fredric Jameson, Future City, New Left Review 21
“As Fredric Jameson perspicaciously remarked, nobody seriously considers possible alternatives to capitalism any longer, whereas popular imagination is persecuted by the visions of the forthcoming ‘breakdown of nature’, of the stoppage of all life on earth – it seems easier to imagine the ‘end of the world’ than a far more modest change in the mode of production, as if liberal capitalism is the ‘real’ that will somehow survive even under the conditions of a global ecological catastrophe.”
~ Slavoj Žižek, The Spectre of Ideology, in Mapping Ideology.
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Relevant Articles
Altering the Supposedly Predestined Future: Utopia as Method, Structure, and Process
Altering the Supposedly Predestined Future: Utopia as Method, Structure, and Process
Post-Nihilistic Speculations on That Which Is Not: A Thought-World According to an Ontology of Non-Being https://cengizerdem.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/post-nihilistic-speculations-on-that-which-is-not-a-thought-world-according-to-an-ontology-of-non-being/
Ontological Catastrophes and Transcendental Time Machines: Dialectics of Time and Event from Kant and Hegel, across Deleuze and Badiou, towards New Futures
Ontological Catastrophes and Transcendental Time Machines: Dialectics of Time and Event from Kant and Hegel, across Deleuze and Badiou, towards New Futures
The Three Modalities of Immanent Infinity: Life, Matter and Thought in Henry, Deleuze, Badiou, and Žižek https://cengizerdem.wordpress.com/2016/03/06/three-modalities-of-the-immanent-infinitude-life-matter-and-thought-in-henry-deleuze-and-badiou/
The Immortal Subject Beyond The Life Death Drives https://cengizerdem.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/the-immortal-subject-beyond-the-life-death-drives/
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