{"id":4498,"date":"2009-11-03T12:47:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T16:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=4498"},"modified":"2012-02-21T00:21:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T05:21:37","slug":"zizek-the-future-is-hegel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/11\/03\/zizek-the-future-is-hegel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017di\u017eek there is no big Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u017di\u017eek, Slavoj. <em>First as Tragedy Then as Farce. <\/em>New York: Verso, 2009.\u00a0 Print.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; the task is &#8220;merely&#8221; to stop the train of history which, left to its own course, leads to a precipice. (Communism is thus not the light at the end of the tunnel, that is, the happy final outcome of a long and arduous struggle \u2014 if anything, the light at the end of the tunnel is rather that of another train approaching us at full speed.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is what a proper political act would be today: not so much to unleash a new movement, as to interrupt the present predominant movement. An act of &#8220;divine violence&#8221; would then mean <strong>pulling the emergency cord on the train of Historical Progress<\/strong>. In other words, one has to learn fully to accept that <strong>there is no big Other<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The moment the &#8220;big Other&#8221; falls, the Leader can no longer claim a privileged relationship to Knowledge \u2014 he becomes an idiot like everyone else. (152)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u017di\u017eek, Slavoj. First as Tragedy Then as Farce. New York: Verso, 2009.\u00a0 Print. &#8230; the task is &#8220;merely&#8221; to stop the train of history which, left to its own course, leads to a precipice. (Communism is thus not the light at the end of the tunnel, that is, the happy final outcome of a long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/11\/03\/zizek-the-future-is-hegel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u017di\u017eek there is no big Other&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,106,20],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-4498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hegel","category-the-act","category-zizek","tag-tragedyfarce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4500,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions\/4500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}