Downstream: We Must Get Ready For An Emergency w/ Slavoj Žižek

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🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Slavoj Žižek is perhaps the most famous living Marxist philosopher. This year he will publish three books on topics ranging from the nature of freedom to his deeply pessimistic view of the future. Slavoj sat down with Aaron for a typically provocative, freewheeling and humorous conversation spanning ideas from Stalinism to Zionism to Eurocentrism. He […]

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Jans Valfakis I'm at Novara Media and I have a message for you.
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0:34.8	Cap a dim. Today's guest needs no introduction. Simply put, he's one of the world's most famous philosophers.
0:50.0	Slavoy Jeechik has written three books coming out this year, this is one of them, and it asks a pretty critical
0:57.6	but simple question, namely are we humanity heading towards catastrophe and what can we do about it. But before we have that
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1:50.4	So without any further ado I hope you enjoy this conversation with Sla Boy Jieje.
1:57.0	Sla Boy Zieck, welcome to Downstream.
2:02.0	I'm proud to be here. I mean it seriously because we live in...
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