Against Progress (Žižek's Essays) Rajat Parr Rickerby thinks through the ways

Rickerby thinks through the ways that poetry can build up and deconstruct a life

twins with otherworldly ways are born to a stone carver and his wife

have in common is that

Without a doubt

Against Progress (Žižek's Essays) Rajat Parr Rickerby thinks through the waysWhat does 'progress' mean? Can things get better? And how, when we are constantly battered on all sides by deepfakes, doomers and disorienting relativisms, can we make any headway at all in the face of unprecedented ecological, social and political crises? In this collection of iconoclastic essays, Slavoj iek disrupts the death grip that neoliberalists, Trumpian populists, toxic self improvement industries and accelerationists alike have established