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The pandemic has not only amplified the ego’s visibility obligations—sitting at home, lonely and tired, trying to sprinkle energy on Zoom—but it has transformed the global capitalist order. How does this combination of fatigue and uncontrollable change affect our ability to desire?
In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of G.W.F. Hegel, Slavoj Žižek speaks to Shahidha Bari about the philosophical giant that changed our way of thinking about posthumanism. Published by Intelligence Squared
Slavoj Zizek examines modern evil through a multitude of variations on a single motive: home is evil. For Zizek, evil is not primarily a property of persons but evil has to be defined in topological terms. Evil is a certain place.