“The Paradoxes of More Pleasure: Slavoj Žižek’s Call for “War Communism” to Prevent the Apocalypse”

Eilenberger, Wolfram; Zizek, Slavoj · Apr 23, 2023 1:05 p.m

In his new book “Paradoxes of More Pleasure”, the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek holds up the psychoanalytic mirror to the present. He says that in order to prevent the apocalypse, we must accept it. And calls for a “war communism”.