EAN: 9781350537842

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

The essays in Zero Point ask how we distinguish defeat from disaster and how we confront despair without collapsing into it - questions never more pertinent than the current moment in the wake of electoral victories for authoritarian populists and unceasing news of violent atrocities. The 'zero-point' of the title is ground level rock bottom the place to which one retreats and where one regroups. Taken from Vladimir Lenin's 1922 piece 'On Ascending a High Mountain in which Lenin considers the complexities of how one 'retreats' while keeping faith in the cause the central simile of the climber offers a blueprint for resilience flexibility and the persistence of hope. This is the revolutionary as living out the Beckettian motto: 'Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' In Zizek's hands this becomes the formula for confronting the antagonisms of existing world order. With a particular focus on the Middle East -the point at which all our tensions threaten to explode - Zizek argues nothing can be addressed meaningfully without such a confrontation. The consequences of eschewing apolitical acts of solidarity and choosing to attempt to speak truth to power are reckoned with in the second half of Zero Point. In a unique piece assembled chronologically from unpublished writings Zizek wrestles with the fallout from his controversial speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2023 - a speech which saw him interrupted condemned and accused of anti-Semitism. The reader bears witness as Zizek processes the criticism evolves his thinking and explores the full ethical political and personal ramifications of the question: When is the right time to speak?

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