Gepubliceerd op: maandag 24 september 2012

Žižek: niet doen, maar denken

“My advice would be–because I don’t have simple answers–two things: (a) precisely to start thinking.  Don’t get caught into this pseudo-activist pressure.  Do something. Let’s do it, and so on.  So, no, the time is to think.  I even provoked some of the leftist friends when I told them that if the famous Marxist formula was, “Philosophers have only interpreted the world; the time is to change it” . . . thesis 11 . . . , that maybe today we should say, “In the twentieth century, we maybe tried to change the world too quickly.  The time is to interpret it again, to start thinking.”

Slavoj Žižek op Big Think.

Over de auteur

- Frank Keizer is dichter, vertaler, redacteur en criticus. Publiceerde in 2012 het chapbook Dear world, fuck off, ik ga golfen bij Stanza en in 2013 Rampensuites bij Perdu, een vertaling van Disaster Suites van Rob Halpern, gemaakt samen met Samuel Vriezen.