In one of the last interviews before his fall, Nicolae Ceausescu was asked by a western journalist how he justified the fact that Romanian citizens could not travel freely abroad although freedom of movement was guaranteed by the
The Battle for Power on the Internet
Bruce Schneider, cryptography and online security expert, gives us a glimpse of the direction the internet it taking, and shares some of the context we should keep in mind. Without making any deep critique of the capitalist power structures, Schneider … |
Slavoj Žižek: The west's crisis is one of democracy as much as finance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/west-crisis-democracy-finance-spirit-dictators?INTCMP=SRCH |
Occupy Wall Street: what is to be done next?, Slavoj Žižek, The Guardian
What to do in the aftermath of the Occupy Wall Street movement, when the protests that started far away – in the Middle East, Greece, Spain, UK – reached the centre, and are now reinforced and rolling out all around … |
Slavoj Žižek – interview for Catastroika
Slavoj Žižek speaks about the new, post-democratic era of capitalism, in an excerpt of the upcoming documentary Catastroika. He claims that …what it shares with authoritarian east regimes is the cancelling of democracy. …the technocratic model (when things get … |