10. Slavoj Zizek: Could COVID destroy capitalism?
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 31 January 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Slavoj Žižek is one of the world's pre-eminent intellectuals. A renowned academic and the author of several bestselling books. We had a lot to talk about: capitalism and the pandemic, whether a revitalised US left can extract concessions from Joe Biden, the threat of the new right, Donald Trump and Trumpism, whether a more successful version of Trump could triumph, the power of social media giants, dominatrixes and loads more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello. It is Owen Jones here. Welcome to the podcast. So today, Slava Gisek. |
| 0:15.0 | Slava Gisek is like a rock star of philosophers. I don't even know how to describe him. He's |
| 0:21.6 | an incredible personality and often very, very unpredictable, full of insight, never, ever, ever boring |
| 0:30.6 | at any circumstances. So I'm going to talk to him about lots of things. Talk to him about Trump, |
| 0:36.6 | about US politics, and about what comes next before you listen to me chatting on with Slava |
| 0:44.0 | Gisek. So this new podcast is about offering an alternative to the right remedia. Taking on |
| 0:49.0 | injustice is speaking to power and offering optimism, also having a bit of fun, because we don't |
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| 1:37.5 | the word. So after all of that, here is my chat with Slava Gisek. It is a really, really fascinating |
| 1:45.2 | conversation and he has a lot to say. I am hugely honoured. I have one of the preeminent political |
| 1:55.0 | thinkers of our time, Slava Gisek. Slava, I thank you so, so much for joining us. |
| 2:00.2 | I am very grateful to be here and I admire you. You must be doing something right for one |
| 2:08.9 | simple reason that today's media, I know I was the victim of it, you know, like they say who |
| 2:16.6 | Western freedom, yeah, but if you go a little bit towards the direction which is not, |
| 2:26.1 | which is not, which is not really not tolerated by those who nonetheless dominate the public space, |
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