Abstract:"Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent." This phrase is attributed to Mao Zedong and it conjures up a mixture of an apocalypse with a new dawn. Slavoj Žižek, a social scientist and Slovenian philosopher, recently redeemed and disseminated the phrase in his book "Living in the End Times" published in 2012 by Editora Boitempo, in which the author singles out elements that foretell the final crisis of capitalism: "the ecological crisis, the consequences of the biogenetic revolution… Show more
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