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Tehlikeli Rüyalar Görme Yılı (2013)

by Slavoj Žižek(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

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History & Biography

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Encore Yayınları

review 1: "Don't fall in love with yourselves" ~ Zizek to occupy wall street. Wow.Amazing book, allowed me to answer some of my own personal questions as to what the entire occupy movement was and why it collapsed so quickly upon itself. As well as all the global protests from the left from Cairo to London to Athens. Even all the way to my home, Arizona. Well written, clear message, short and simple. Perfect. Love Zizek. "There is a danger. Don’t fall in love with yourselves. We have a nice time here. But remember, carnivals come cheap. What matters is the day after, when we will have to return to normal lives. Will there be any changes then? I don’t want you to remember these days, you know, like “Oh. we were young and it was beautiful.” Remember that our basic message is �... more��We are allowed to think about alternatives.” If the taboo is broken, we do not live in the best possible world. But there is a long road ahead. There are truly difficult questions that confront us. We know what we do not want. But what do we want? What social organization can replace capitalism? What type of new leaders do we want? Remember. The problem is not corruption or greed. The problem is the system. It forces you to be corrupt. Beware not only of the enemies, but also of false friends who are already working to dilute this process. In the same way you get coffee without caffeine, beer without alcohol, ice cream without fat, they will try to make this into a harmless, moral protest. A decaffienated protest. But the reason we are here is that we have had enough of a world where, to recycle Coke cans, to give a couple of dollars for charity, or to buy a Starbucks cappuccino where 1% goes to third world starving children is enough to make us feel good. After outsourcing work and torture, after marriage agencies are now outsourcing our love life, we can see that for a long time, we allow our political engagement also to be outsourced. We want it back."
review 2: Perhaps I am being too generous scoring the book with four stars, because I feel quite strongly about the conclusions being a let-down, disconnected with everything leading up to them and downright coming out of the blue. The last chapter felt rushed and awkward, and it was as if the whole book had been dwelling on a point A and then the conclusions jumping straight to a point D. However, I couldn't get myself to give it only three stars, as it has a lot of great, brilliantly articulated observations. So, all-in-all, great individual passages, but the whole thesis felt like it didn't quite hold water. less

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