Like A Thief In Broad Daylight
- Author Slavoj Zizek
- Narrator Jamie East
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 8 hours and 5 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Ethical issues: scientific, technological and medical developments, Impact of science and technology on society, Political science and theory, Social and political philosophy.
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Penguin presents the audiobook of Like A Thief In Broad Daylight by Slavoj Žižek read by Jamie East.
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 Zizek 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 realisation of Marx's prediction that 'all that is solid melts into air.' With the automation of work, the virtualisation of money, the dissipation of class communities and the rise of immaterial, intellectual labour, 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, Zizek 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.
Žižek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative - Guardian
Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation - New Yorker
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