This week on the Prospect Podcast, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek joins Ellen Halliday and Alona Ferber.
Žižek gives a harsh verdict on Donald Trump, calling him a “postmodern obscenity”. Žižek criticises the US president’s treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House, and his referring to Justin Trudeau as “governor” as if Canada were a state of America. Nevertheless, he wonders, does the left need a Trump figure?
Žižek also discusses fatherhood and Netflix’s Adolescence, as awareness grows around young male radicalisation via the “manosphere”. He also talks about feminism and his criticisms of #MeToo.
Plus, with the release of Žižek’s latest book, in which he argues that the left has hit its “zero point”, is there any hope for its recovery? He draws a through line from the left-wingers of 1968 to the politics and personality of Elon Musk—and gives his analysis on Keir Starmer’s Labour as a “moderate, centre-right party” wrestling with the populist right.
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In the Australian rainforest summer has come to an end. Autumn brings sunny days by the creek, abundant food in our permaculture garden and beautiful days spent building, cooking and playing in the creek with our duck.
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We are sisters, Julia and Anastasia Vanderbyl. A few years ago, we began a journey to live a life in perfect harmony with nature. A life of caring for animals, growing fruit, planting trees, gardening, cooking, creating, building and learning to live with the land.
In this time, nature has taught us more than we could have ever imagined.
Our environmental films document the landscape, the lessons we’ve learnt and our work as regenerative farmers here on Bundjalung Country.
We live on the land of the Arakwal and Minjungbal People of the Bundjalung Nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Country we live on and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters. We thank them for protecting this rainforest and its ecosystems since time immemorial.
Chapters:
0:00 Playing in the glistening creek with my duck
2:13 Building the cabin in the rainforest
3:50 Harvesting herbs, papayas and a banana bell
5:40 Cooking from our permaculture garden
9:42 Julia, the goats and the ducks come to the cabin
12:51 Collecting secondhand zero waste building supplies
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