{"id":188957,"date":"2021-08-02T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=188957"},"modified":"2021-07-20T10:01:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:01:21","slug":"chris-hedges-and-slavoj-zizek-on-the-pandemics-ramifications-parts-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/08\/chris-hedges-and-slavoj-zizek-on-the-pandemics-ramifications-parts-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hedges and Slavoj \u017di\u017eek on the Pandemic\u2019s Ramifications (Parts 1 &#038; 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>13-15 Jul 2021 &#8211; <em>Chris Hedges discusses the social, political, cultural economic ramifications of the pandemic with the philosopher Slavoj \u017di\u017eek.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">PART 1<\/h3>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-GNGDsYiZYQ<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">PART 2<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">In his new book, <em>Pandemic 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost<\/em>, <em>\u017di\u017eek<\/em> argues the failure of global capitalism to cope with the pandemic presages, he fears, systems collapse, a dress rehearsal for a frightening form of authoritarianism where the world is starkly divided between the elites and the rest of us. &#8220;&#8230;[<em>T]he return to normality thus becomes the supreme psychotic gesture, the sign of collective madness,<\/em>&#8221; <em>\u017di\u017eek<\/em> writes.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_RV2iQMa13M&amp;t=3s<br \/>\n<strong><em>Slavoj \u017di\u017eek<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>, a Slovenian cultural philosopher and psychoanalyst<\/em><\/strong><em>, is senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London. He has also been a visiting professor at more than 10 universities around the world. \u017di\u017eek is the author of many books, including<\/em> Living in the End Times, First As Tragedy Then As Farce, The Fragile Absolute <em>and <\/em>Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? <em>He lives in London.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Chris Hedges<\/strong> is a Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for\u00a0<\/em>The New York Times<em>,\u00a0where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for\u00a0<\/em>The Dallas Morning News,\u00a0The Christian Science Monitor, <em>and<\/em> NPR<em>. Until this month, he wrote a weekly column for the online magazine\u00a0<\/em>Truthdig<em>. He is the host of the Emmy Award-nominated <\/em>RT America<em> show\u00a0<\/em>On Contact<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13-15 Jul 2021 &#8211; Chris Hedges discusses the social, political, cultural economic ramifications of the pandemic with the philosopher Slavoj \u017di\u017eek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[1778,1829,1868,1864,1699],"class_list":["post-188957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-conflict-analysis","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-pandemic","tag-slavoj-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}