{"product_id":"rashid-khalidi-and-tariq-ali-the-neck-and-the-sword-preorder-copy","title":"Slavoj Žižek: Signs of the Future (preorder)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBloomsbury Academic, 2026, softcover, 168 pages, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e12.9 x 19.5 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ehe old liberal world order is dying and yet new realities are consistently stillborn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are, as Slavoj Žižek argues in this arresting new book, stuck in time with only the morbid phenomena of Gramscis chilling words for company: the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid phenomena appears. These phenomena - chaotic economic wars, new forms of Fascism, techno-feudalism, a return to colonial land grabs, planetary destruction and sanctioned genocides - overwhelm us at every turn. What can we do, in such a desperate climate, to stem the flow of despair?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe might look to the great triumphs, successes and lessons of the past to guide our path - sifting the annals of history for insights which could disrupt our disastrous trajectory. And yet, this historical knowledge doesnt seem to meaningfully disturb the ruinous repetitions we see throughout human history. What might happen if we look to the future? Could it be that the realm of fortune tellers, star gazers and conspiracists is more predictable, knowable even, than weve allowed ourselves to think? Can we not read the morbid phenomena that abound as concrete predictors of what is to come? From Gaza to Iran, Ukraine to the streets of Minneapolis and Venezuela to Sudan, are we not given such signs - a series of unfathomable and brutal events that, without decisive action now, will remain our future?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSigns from the Future,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eŽižeks self-coined materialist prophesying provides the tools to read worlds that have not yet been born but make their presence reverberate in the present nonetheless. He asks us to address our lives as signs from the future, intimations that warn us but also prompt us - to action, resistance, reparation and the fragile possibility of hope.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60175834874240,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/61LKBCyoVjL._SL1500.jpg?v=1792596353","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/rashid-khalidi-and-tariq-ali-the-neck-and-the-sword-preorder-copy","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}