There should be no doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching a terminal crisis. Slavoj, the West's most dangerous philosopher, identifies the global ecological crisis, imbalances within the economic system, the biogenetic revolution, and explosive social divisions with the four riders of this looming modern apocalypse.
But if for many people the death of capitalism seems to be the end of the world, how does Western society face life in the end? In a sharp new analysis that forgets neither political protest nor ideological evasion, characteristic of these times, Zizek argues that our collective responses to Economic Armagedron correspond to the stages of pain: ideological denial, explosion of anger, and attempts at negotiation, followed by depression and withdrawal. After crossing that zero point, we can begin to perceive the crisis as an opportunity for a new beginning.
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