7. The State of the World Tomorrow: Žižek’s Hegel

It is clear that Covid-19 is an event of historic proportions, but what does that really mean? What do we mean when we say that an event "shaped the course of history," and how much history is there really left to shape? Episode 7 dives into one of my favorite books of all time, Less Than Nothing, Slavoj Žižek's gutsy attempt to rehabilitate Hegel for the contemporary age. Recorded on lockdown during the coronavirus outbreak in New York, this is part 2 of a three-part episode exploring our society's tacit belief in the "the end of history," and what we can do to shed this politically-charged and dangerous illusion.

WORKS CITED

-Žižek, Slavoj. Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism. 1 edition. Verso, 2012.

-Piketty, Thomas. Capital and Ideology. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2020.

MUSIC

-Theme music and consultation: Georgina Rossi, www.georginarossi.com

-Interlude: Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 3 - III. Poco Allegretto