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Zero Point (Žižek's Essays) 🔍
Bloomsbury Academic, 2025
Slavoj Žižek 🔍
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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 Žižek'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 – Žižek 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 In a unique piece assembled chronologically from unpublished writings, Žižek wrestles with the fallout from his controversial speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2023 - a speech which saw him interrupted,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?
Alternative author
Slavoj Zizek
Alternative publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Alternative publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Alternative publisher
I.B. Tauris
Alternative edition
United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
Alternative description
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Editor’s Note
Note on Text
Part 1. Back to Ground Level
Zero Point
Everything is Not Going to be OK
All Words are Not Equal
What Hysterics Only Dream About
Worlds Blown Into Space
Heroes of the Metaverse
Death Cramps
Part 2. When is the Right Time to Speak
Notes on Assemblage
21 October 2023
25 October 2023
4 November 2023
16 November 2023
8 December 2023
14 December 2023
31 January 2024
9 May 2024
24 May 2024
21 October 2024
10 November 2024
10 December 2024
A Boring Recapitulation
Appendix: Frankfurt Speech October 2023
Notes
Index
date open sourced
2025-03-15
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