Si chiama Jeremy proprio come Clarkson, la controversa celebrità televisiva, ma le similitudini per fortuna finiscono qui. Politicamente, somiglia assai di più a Ken Livingstone, l’ex sindaco di Londra e anche lui famosa spina del fianco del partito laburista: una mina vagante a sinistra con grosso seguito personale, e quindi imbarazzo per la maggioranza centrista.
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Zizek: felicità, categoria per schiavi
Vivieen Sanchbraj asks:
“Is happiness important these days? How can we be happy? What steps do you suggest?”
Slavoj Zizek
08 October 2014 2:25pm
Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don’t know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. We all remember Gordon Gekko, the role played by Michael Douglas in Wall Street. What he says, breakfast is for wimps, or if you need a friend buy yourself a dog, I think we should say something similar about happiness. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.
(Online Guardian Q&A with the Slovenian philosopher. Il resto del pirotecnico scambio è qui.)
Il suo ultimo libro, Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism, è appena uscito per i tipi di Verso.
We save lives, not banks
In mezzo all’implacabile ostilità dei media mainstream, che di solito qui si concentrano nello stigmatizzare gli scioperi, i lavoratori britannici hanno incrociato ieri le braccia nel maggiore sciopero del settore pubblico dal 2011.
Pen Pals
Ma che bel sedere
Strategia dell’informazione
Un pezzo sulle “Nuove Brigate Rosse”, uscito nella sezione Comment is free del Guardian.
It was a moment straight out of an old television documentary: only it was coming from a 2012 Italian court. Last Tuesday in Milan, during the appeal hearing of 13 suspected members of a group linked to the New Red Brigades, one of the main suspects, Alfredo Davanzo shouted: “This is the right moment, ahead with the revolution, long live the revolution!”
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