Best Review Slavoj Žižek thoughts on Occupy Wall St at St. Mark's Bookshop Oct 26 2011 Video
Recorded October 26, 2011, 7pm. Slavoj Zizek --at a book signing event at St. Mark's Bookshop in the East Village--gives a lengthy talk using the Occupy Wall Street movement as an example that now is time for slow, careful "thinking", and not simply be trapped the movement's carnival-like atmosphere, or " hip pragmatism " (37:20); don't be mired in " leftist melancholy " (45:10) the real 99%? the wall street protesters, or the starving poor in America and around the world? (34:00) the true lost object in melancholy is this desire (5:59) also... at the end of the talk he inquires into the status of st marks bookshop, in danger of closing due to high rent. www.youtube.com closed captioned caption english subtitles philosophy philospher lecture talk book signing social theorist theory nervous
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