Slavoj Žižek, Yanis Varoufakis & Julian Assange @ The 'Europe
Is Kaput!' Event In London -- What Was Said
27/11/2015
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On Monday 16th November 2015, Yanis Varoufakis, Slavoj Žižek and Srećko Horvat (mediator) walked onto the stage at The Southbank Centre in London for a discussion entitled: 'Europe is Kaput!'. Thirty minutes in and they announced a surprise guest speaker whom would be streamed in through live video feed for the rest of the debate - Julian Assange. What is detailed below is the topics which were discussed and individual comments in response. Largely there was consensus between the speakers, with Slavoj acting as devils advocate. As the discussion lasted three hours this is a summary of those points which were most clear, concise and of interest, for those who may wish to read them.
It should be noted that given the nature of such discussions, and the speakers (i.e. Žižek), there was some discontinuity in topic discussion throughout the evening. Therefore, comments are not listed chronologically but thematically for ease of reading.
The closing remark of the evening came from Slavoj and seemed fitting to separate, here:
"You end capitalism, you end ISIS"
(emphasising their interconnectedness as opposed to a method)
Opening:
Paris, ISIS, Europe and the refugee crisis
Paris, ISIS, Europe and the refugee crisis
Žižek: What is clear is that those who will be the biggest victims of the Paris attacks are those already involved in the humanitarian crisis - refugees.
Particularly those already fleeing
ISIS in Syria, only to be victims of the groups actions a second time. But what
should not be ignored is that there is incredible levels of violence in the
world at present, with many people losing their lives on the same day as those
in Paris, which go unnoticed and un-noted in Western media.
