Quantum History
A New Materialist Philosophy
- author
- Slavoj Žižek
- Narrator
- Joe Jameson
- Length
- 15 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Catalogue #
- 24864
- Categories
- Religion & Philosophy
- Reviews
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Quantum History takes the listener from the absolute contradiction of the primordial void through quantum oscillations to our ordinary reality, weaving in Lacan and Deleuze, Rovelli and Schelling, opera, cinema, sex and war. Žižek is at his sharpest, saddest, most provocative best as he demonstrates that there is no way of extracting ourselves from the texture of history, no neutral position from which the workings of the world can be observed transparently – we must act from a contingent, complex and inscrutable political moment, in sadness and in doubt, but defiantly.
