Slavoj Žižek, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously

Kelsey Wood (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Domains

Political Science

Dates

2012

Places

United Kingdom (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Commentary / criticism

Resources

In The Year of Dreaming Dangerously (2012), Slavoj Žižek considers the radical-emancipatory potential of the protests, riots, and irruptions of 2011. Žižek points out that it was a year of dangerous dreams, for the Left and the Right: from the Arab spring and the Occupy Wall Street movement, to Anders Breivik’s murderous rampage in Norway. But where — in all of the dangerous dreams of 2011 — do we find a moment of genuine revolutionary potential? Did any of the upheavals of 2011 pose a serious challenge to global capitalism? Or, on the contrary, did they simply show how far we are from even imagining such a challenge? In his typically counterintuitive way, Žižek argues that the events of 2011 signal the approach of a n…

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Citation: Wood, Kelsey. "The Year of Dreaming Dangerously". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 May 2014 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35245, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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