Like a Thief in Broad Daylight

Like a Thief in Broad Daylight
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Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9781609809768
ISBN-13 : 1609809769
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Book Synopsis Like a Thief in Broad Daylight by : Slavoj Zizek

Download or read book Like a Thief in Broad Daylight written by Slavoj Zizek and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest book from "the most dangerous philosopher in the West" (New Republic) considers the new dangers and radical possibilities set in motion by advances in Big Tech. In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world--changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Žižek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing how, with each new wave of innovation, we find ourselves moving closer and closer to a bizarrely literal realization of Marx's prediction that "all that is solid melts into air." With the automation of work, the virtualization of money, the dissipation of class communities, and the rise of immaterial, intellectual labor, the global capitalist edifice is beginning to crumble, more quickly than ever before--and it is now on the verge of vanishing entirely. But what will come next? Against a backdrop of constant socio-technological upheaval, how could any kind of authentic change take place? In such a context, Žižek argues, there can be no great social triumph--because lasting revolution has already come into the scene, like a thief in broad daylight, stealing into sight right before our very eyes. What we must do now is wake up and see it. Urgent as ever, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight illuminates the new dangers as well as the radical possibilities thrown up by today's technological and scientific advances, and their electrifying implications for us all.


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