2012 British documentary film directed by Sophie Fiennes

本书是齐泽克最重要的理论作品，齐泽克把它视为自己的代表作（magnum opus），在这部著作中，他把自己原本分散的哲学见解整合起来，使之融为一体，提出了一套独特的存有论。何谓视差？视差本是天文学概念，指从保持一定距离的两个点观察同一个目标时所产生的方向差异。在齐泽克看来，审视同一个客体时，视差是由两个互不兼容的视角构成的，这两个视角之间存在着不可化约的非对称性。以视差为起点，齐泽克透过黑格尔和拉康解读哲学、科学和政治理论，借助辩证思维和精神分析范畴分析当代文化，重新激活马克思主义对全球资本主义的批判。

In this bravura analysis of the current global crisis - following on from his bestselling "Welcome to the Desert of the Real" - Slavoj Zizek argues that the liberal idea of the end of history, declared by Francis Fukuyama during the 1990s, has had to die twice. After the collapse of the liberal-democratic political utopia, on the morning of 9/11, came the collapse of the economic utopia of global market capitalism at the end of 2008. Marx argued that history repeats itself-occurring first as tragedy, the second time as farce - and Zizek, following Herbert Marcuse, notes here that the repetition as farce can be even more terrifying than the original tragedy. The financial meltdown signals that the fantasy of globalization is over and as millions are put out of work it has become impossible to ignore the irrationality of global capitalism. Just a few months before the crash, the world's priorities seemed to be global warming, AIDS, and access to medicine, food and water- tasks labelled as urgent, but with any real action repeatedly postponed. Now, after the financial implosion, the urgent need to act seems to have become unconditional - with the result that undreamt of quantities of cash were immediately found and then poured into the financial sector without any regard for the old priorities. Do we need further proof, Zizek asks, that Capital is the Real of our lives: the Real whose demands are more absolute than even the most pressing problems of our natural and social world?

Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory," and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture, literature and jokes all to provide acute analyses of the complexities of contemporary ideology as well as a serious and sophisticated philosophy. His recent films The Pervert's Guide to the Cinema and Zizek! reveal a theorist at the peak of his powers and a skilled communicator. Now Verso is making his classic titles, each of which stand as a core of his ever-expanding life's work, available as new editions. Each is beautifully re-packaged, including new introductions from Zizek himself. Simply put, they are the essential texts for understanding Zizek's thought and thus cornerstones of contemporary philosophy.

我们所能眼见的物理暴力往往是某种系统暴力的产物。这种系统暴力维持着我们身处其中的政治和经济体制。为此，人们看待暴力的方式本身就是被系统所塑造的。齐泽克诊断了人们认知并扭曲暴力现象的各种形式，试图颠覆自由资本主义-基督教意识形态主宰的那种认识暴力的图像，并以“神的暴力”超越主观暴力和系统暴力的合谋。齐泽克以一部小说的故事和一句带有智者风格的话结束了他对暴力的反思：在某个民主国家的选举中，70%的投票是弃权票；重新投票后更糟，有80%的票弃权。政府认定有反政府的阴谋，因此开始秘密逮捕和审讯，却一无所获。这导致政府将应对手段不断升级，直至宣布首都进入紧急状态、炮制阴谋……最终政府自己制造出恐怖分子。然而，首都却一直继续近乎正常地运作，民众以无法理解的和谐和非暴力的抵抗阻挡了政府每一波攻击。因此，“有时，什么都不做就是最暴力的行动。”