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Zero Point (Žižek's Essays) Sophie Merkens Professor Michael Belgrave advances theThe essays in Zero Point ask how we distinguish defeat from disaster, and how we confront despair without collapsing into it questions never more pertinent than the current moment in the wake of electoral victories for authoritarian populists and unceasing news of violent atrocities. The 'zero point' of the title is ground level, rock bottom, the place to which one retreats and where one regroups. Taken from Vladimir Lenin's 1922 piece 'On Ascending a