Slavoj Žižek's New Scientist interview: The revolution will not be on Facebook
Slavoj Zizek speaks to Liz Else for the New Scientist about Living in the End Times.
On ecological disaster:
If we are the bad guys, all we have to do is change our behaviour. But in fact nature is not a good Mother Nature, it’s a crazy bitch.
... we should alienate ourselves more from nature so we become aware of the utter contingency, the fragility of our natural being.
On Facebook:
I hate Facebook. If you use it more than an hour a day you should be mobilised to clean streets for useful work.
On Bill Gates:
How did Bill Gates become the richest man on earth? It’s not exploitation, we are paying him rent. He privatised part of the “general intellect”, the social network of communication—it’s a new enclosure of the commons.
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