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October 30, 2008

Slavoj Zizek: We don’t even have the right question

Filed under: All and sundry — Tags: , , , — Ulrich Mohrhoff @ 8:13 pm

Christopher Lydon interviews Slavoj Zizek: What is the Question?

Open Source Radio Recorded September 23, 2008

Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Slavoj Zizek (1:04:19 minutes, 29.5 mb mp3)

Dangerous moments are coming. Dangerous moments are always also a chance to do something. But in such dangerous moments, you have to think, you have to try to understand. And today obviously all the predominant narratives — the old liberal-left welfare state narrative; the post-modern third-way left narrative; the neo-conservative narrative; and of course the old standard Marxist narrative — they don’t work. We don’t have a narrative. Where are we? Where are we going? What to do? … Things are happening. We don’t have a proper approach. It’s not only that we don’t have the answers. We don’t even have the right question.

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