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June 05, 2012
This weekend (June 3rd) Slavoj Žižek was in Athens with Alexis Tsipras,the president of SYRIZA—the Coalition of the Radical Left—and Kostas Douzinas, Philosophy of Law professor of Birbeck, University of London, to discuss European austerity and Greece’s pivotal position to elect a government that counters the “madness of market ideology.” Expanding on his recent essay in the London Review of Books, Žižek argues that far from being the “irresponsible, lazy, free-spending, tax-dodging” thorn of Europe, the Greeks are the very lifeblood of the Europe to come. “Far from a threat to Europe, you are giving a chance to Europe to break out of its inertia, to find a new way.”
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PURE AWESOME: Žižek and Alexis Tsipras side by side. While this makes Tsipras’ coolness factor skyrocket (in my personal...
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If only everyone were as optimistic.
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