Truthout.org has reviewed Living in the End Times, calling the book a “razor-sharp analysis”:
The landscape of the world in Slavoj Žižek’s ”Living in the End Times” is dotted with incomprehensible horrors. Global ice sheets melt and various countries rush to plant their flags in order to profit from the exposed resources that lay below. TV talk [...]
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As part of VPRO International’s Backlight series, broadcast in March this year, Žižek discusses many of the themes from his new book:
With thanks to Jonathan Waring, who writes about this video on his website: http://www.jonathanwaring.net
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Baltimore City Paper has reviewed Living in the End Times in their latest issue, calling it “a necessary primer”:
Slavoj Žižek’s new Living in the End Times (Verso) is a necessary primer for those who would like to reboot their imaginations and, perhaps, begin to see beyond the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon to what our globalized, capitalist culture has [...]
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Brian Dillon reviews Living in the End Times for The Telegraph:
But it’s not merely that Žižek’s energy for self-promotion is prodigious. Rather, it’s his range that impresses – he’s equal parts forbidding theorist of the contemporary political and cultural scene, and contriver of entertainingly elaborate paradoxes. If it weren’t for the [...]
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In this RSA Animate, Slavoj Zizek investigates the surprising ethical implications of charitable giving – the speech is from his keynote lecture in 2009.
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce and its follow up Living in the End Times are out now.
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