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We hear all the time that it's five minutes to global doomsday, so now is our last chance to avert disaster. But what if the only way to prevent a catastrophe is to assume that is has already happened - that we're already five minutes past zero hour? Why do we seem unable to avert our course to self-destruction? Too Late to Awaken sees Slavoj Žižek deliver his most forceful, hopeful account of our discontents yet. Surveying the interlocking crises we currently face - global warming, war, famine, disease - he points us towards the radical, emancipatory politics that we need in order to halt our drift towards disaster. Pithy, urgent, cutting and witty, Žižek's diagnosis reveals our current geopolitical nightmare in a startling new light, and shows why, in order to change our future, we must reimagine our past

Introduction: The Triumph of Techno-Populism -- I: Ukraine -- The War of Lumpen-Bourgeoisie -- Ukraine Is Like the West Bank, Not Like Israel -- Castration Here and There, Castration Everywhere -- Is the Idea of a Ukrainian Orgy Really That Morbid? -- Am I Now Ashamed of Once Publishing in Russia Today? -- MacGuffin in Ukraine -- The Curious Incident of the Missing Orbán in Kyiv -- II: Hollywood -- The Vacuity of Hollywood's Moral Turn -- Tár's Parallax -- Why a Queen Is Better Than a Woman King -- Where Jeanne Went Wrong -- The Taming of Multiverses -- The Stupidity of Nature -- III: Related Matters -- The Forgotten Miracle in Chile -- The "Unknown Knowns" of the Pandemic and of Climate Change -- Is Communism Authoritarian Capitalism? -- Gorbachev's Second Death -- Peng Shuai and the Reign of Pure Appearance -- Is Solidarity Anti-Semitic? -- Welcome to the Age of Artificial Scarcity! -- AOC and Her Boyfriend's Feet -- Conclusion: The Trouble with Pan-Asianism.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction The Unorientable Space of Dialectical Materialism -- Notes -- Theorem I The Parallax of Ontology -- Modalities of the Absolute -- Reality and Its Transcendental Supplement -- Varieties of the Transcendental in Western Marxism -- The Margin of Radical Uncertainty -- Notes -- Corollary 1 Intellectual Intuition and Intellectus Archetypus: Reflexivity in Kant and Hegel -- Intellectual Intuition from Kant to Hegel -- From Intellectus Ectypus toIntellectus Archetypus -- Notes -- Scholium 1.1 Buddha, Kant, Husserl -- Notes -- Scholium 1.2 Hegel's Parallax -- Notes -- Scholium 1.3 The "Death of Truth" -- Theorem II Sex as Our Brush with the Absolute -- Antinomies of Pure Sexuation -- Sexual Parallax and Knowledge -- The Sexed Subject -- Plants, Animals, Humans, Posthumans -- Notes -- Corollary 2 Sinuosities of Sexualized Time -- Days of the Living Dead -- Cracks in Circular Time -- Notes -- Scholium 2.1 Schematism in Kant, Hegel . . . and Sex -- Notes -- Scholium 2.2 Marx, Brecht, and Sexual Contracts -- Notes -- Scholium 2.3 The Hegelian Repetition -- Notes -- Scholium 2.4 Seven Deadly Sins -- Note -- Theorem III The Three Unorientables -- Möbius Strip, or, the Convolutions of Concrete Universality -- The "Inner Eight" -- Suture Redoubled -- Cross-Capping Class Struggle -- From Cross-Cap to Klein Bottle -- A Snout in Plato's Cave -- Notes -- Corollary 3 The Retarded God of Quantum Ontology -- The Implications of Quantum Gravity -- The Two Vacuums: From Less than Nothing to Nothing -- Is the Collapse of a Quantum Wave Like a Throw of Dice? -- Notes -- Scholium 3.1 The Ethical Möbius Strip -- Note -- Scholium 3.2 The Dark Tower of Suture -- Note -- Scholium 3.3 Suture and Hegemony -- Scholium 3.4 The World With(out) a Snout -- Notes.

"With irrepressible humour Slavoj Žižek dissects our current political and social climate, discussing everything from Jordan Peterson and sex 'unicorns' to Greta Thunberg and Chairman Mao. This is Žižek's attempt to elucidate the major political issues of the day from a truly radical left position"--

In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Žižek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism. In forging this new materialism, Žižek critiques and challenges not only the work of Alain Badiou, Robert Brandom, Joan Copjec, Quentin Meillassoux, and Julia Kristeva (to name but a few), but everything from popular science and quantum mechanics to sexual difference and analytic philosophy. Alongside striking images of the Möbius strip, the cross-cap, and the Klein bottle, Žižek brings alive the Hegelian triad of being-essence-notion. Radical new readings of Hegel, and Kant, sit side by side with characteristically lively commentaries on film, politics, and culture. Here is Žižek at his interrogative best

Denial : the liberal utopia -- Interlude 1. Hollywood today : report from an ideological battlefield -- Anger : the actuality of the theologico-political -- Interlude 2. Reverberations of the crisis in a multi-centric world -- Bargaining : the return of the critique of political economy -- Interlude 3. The architectural parallax -- Depression : the neuronal trauma, or, the rise of the proletarian cogito -- Interlude 4. Apocalypse at the gates -- Acceptance : the cause regained.