"You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave" : Europe is Kaput. Long live Europe! - Slavoj Žižek, Yanis Varoufakis and Julian Assange (Live at at London’s Southbank Centre 16.11.15)
Monday 16 November 2015
Europe is Kaput. Long Live Europe!
Slavoj Zizek and Yanis Varoufakis at London’s Southbank Centre
For ages 12+ (???)
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Via the fevered imagination of Exilestreet
Man muss nicht alles teilen, was sie sagen, aber was die Herren vorführen verdient den Begriff "Denken" - im Unterschied zu der Safranski-Denkbrühe unten!
Europe is Kaput. Long Live Europe!
Slavoj Zizek and Yanis Varoufakis at London’s Southbank Centre
For ages 12+ (???)
View on YouTube
Via the fevered imagination of Exilestreet
- Considering the recent terrorist attacks, Žižek claimed we should finally accept that we live in a cocoon, not noticing that which we currently experience as a horrible distraction from our otherwise safe life in Europe, is actually everyday life in other countries. Instead of letting right-wing politicians use these terrors to justify borders and setting up fences, left movements should learn to connect our struggles to the ones in other countries – regardless of what religion, ethnicity etc. the people have there ...
Varoufakis stated that Europe is already highly fragmented and that borders and fences will only bring more tension, division and therefore more insecurity: “The right-wing movement feeds on fences”. He claimed that in order to deal with current problems we need a united Europe again – one that not only exists in our imagination but one that is real. In order to do that we have to find a common identity separate from nationhood: “Are the Germans less my people than the Greek bankers who poisoned my country?”. He referred to the last lines of Hotel California: “You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!” Therefore, he demanded that as a first step the administrative and political structures must become more transparent and that we act on the democratic deficit we currently face. To that Žižek responded that that is just what they said about the Soviet Union, that it is okay, it only has a democratic deficit. A democratic deficit is not simply a small error we have to resolve. This democratic deficit negates the whole system...
Man muss nicht alles teilen, was sie sagen, aber was die Herren vorführen verdient den Begriff "Denken" - im Unterschied zu der Safranski-Denkbrühe unten!
gebattmer - 2015/11/24 18:58
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