{"id":25635,"date":"2023-02-07T15:55:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=25635"},"modified":"2023-02-07T15:55:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:55:27","slug":"what-i-dont-want-is-western-triumphalism-slavoj-zizek-on-putins-expansionism-western-complicity-the-denial-of-death-and-preventing-a-global-ultra-conservative-tu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=25635","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What I don\u2019t want is Western triumphalism\u2019 Slavoj \u017di\u017eek on Putin\u2019s expansionism, Western complicity, the denial of death, and preventing a global ultra-conservative turn \u2014 Meduza"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj \u017di\u017eek spoke with Meduza about the Russia-Ukraine war, framing it as part of a global ideological conflict, in which Vladimir Putin himself is befriending other authoritarian regimes to create a new, ultra-conservative axis of global power. A self-described pessimist, \u017di\u017eek cautions the West against settling into a complacent sense of moral superiority. The Neo-Fascist ideological turn that now serves Putin\u2019s imperialist ambitions is not, he says, a specifically Russian problem. Instead, it\u2019s a case study in how things go wrong when political competition devolves into struggle among oligarchs. This is a condensed version of the philosopher\u2019s interview first published by Meduza in Russian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/meduza.io\/en\/feature\/2023\/02\/03\/what-i-don-t-want-is-western-triumphalism\">\u2018What I don\u2019t want is Western triumphalism\u2019 Slavoj \u017di\u017eek on Putin\u2019s expansionism, Western complicity, the denial of death, and preventing a global ultra-conservative turn \u2014 Meduza<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj \u017di\u017eek spoke with Meduza about the Russia-Ukraine war,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[402,474,56],"class_list":["post-25635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}