Like A Thief In Broad Daylight

Like A Thief In Broad Daylight

Power in the Era of Post-Humanity

Summary

In our brave new world of Big Tech, work is automated and money melts into air. What comes next as the global capitalist edifice crumbles? Slavoj Žižek shows how the answer is already stealing into sight, like a thief in broad daylight. What we must do is wake up and see it.

'In a world determined to crush hope of radical change, where moral corruption poses as pragmatism and systemic oppression as the new freedom, Slavoj Žižek's excellent new book serves humanity in a way that only authentic philosophy can' Yanis Varoufakis

'The Elvis of cultural theory' New Statesman

'Master of the counterintuitive observation' New Yorker

Reviews

  • Žižek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative
    Guardian

About the author

Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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