READING TIME | is private space disappearing?

Based on Slavoj Žižek´s book Event : A Philosophical Journey Through a Concept, 2014

(…)Then, by direct consequence, my individuality is also disappearing.
Thus, if that happens it means that public space will become a private space.
The privatization of public space would mark the start of a gargoyle relationship between humans…That is just our absolute surrender to the capitalist system.

Using terms of Zizek, this is the dis-eventalization of the search for the democratization of life and by relative effect, of the arts as well. If men end up being a prisoner of this “new” public space, he is condemned to the loss of spontaneity. The public space is no longer unpredictable and becomes systematically ordinary…

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