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  • By: Slavoj Žižek
  • Narrated by: Jamie East
  • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (40 ratings)

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Like a Thief in Broad Daylight

By: Slavoj Žižek
Narrated by: Jamie East
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Penguin presents the audiobook of Like A Thief In Broad Daylight by Slavoj Žižek read by Jamie East.

In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world - changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing how, with each new wave of innovation, we find ourselves moving closer and closer to a bizarrely literal realisation of Marx's prediction that 'all that is solid melts into air.' With the automation of work, the virtualisation of money, the dissipation of class communities and the rise of immaterial, intellectual labour, the global capitalist edifice is beginning to crumble, more quickly than ever before-and it is now on the verge of vanishing entirely.

But what will come next? Against a backdrop of constant socio-technological upheaval, how could any kind of authentic change take place? In such a context, Zizek argues, there can be no great social triumph - because lasting revolution has already come into the scene, like a thief in broad daylight, stealing into sight right before our very eyes. What we must do now is wake up and see it.

Urgent as ever, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight illuminates the new dangers as well as the radical possibilities thrown up by today's technological and scientific advances, and their electrifying implications for us all.

©2018 Slavoj Žižek (P)2018 Penguin Audio

Critic Reviews

"Zižek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative." (Guardian

"Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation." (New Yorker) 

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C’est comme ça

This was the first Žižek book I’d come across in audio format. Kudos to the narrator for taking on the task, but I have to say his French pronunciation is appalling, and the book contains a lot of French names, phrases, sayings, quotes, and so on [and so on] which get butchered beyond recognition. I realise this is more of a comment on one small detail, rather than a book review, but /sayt laeh vie/

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Convoluted but important insights

This was a difficult listen and required a number of rewinds. The sentances were convoluted and often made use of terms that currently have contested definitions.

I experienced important insights listening to this, although I'm not sure they were the insights the author intended the listener to have.

Familiarity with the referenced material may help.

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Densely packed and with dynamite.

A difficult task for the narrator but it was well performed.

Zizek takes quite a bit of reading for the average Jo so it's a relief to finally have an audible version to listen to whilst performing other duties.

This book is ecouraging and provocative.

The final chapter is well worth looping a few times.

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