Chilean slogan: 'Another end of the world is possible'
example · Chile protests (October) ·
retold in 5 talks
The October Chile protests' motto was not 'socialist revolution and all will be okay' but 'another end of the world is possible', refusing the single catastrophic end offered by the media. Žižek proposes it as today's motto.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 4
“Not "we do a socialist revolution and everything will be okay," but "another end of the world is possible."”13:11 Slavoj Zizek: COVID, Tech Billionaires, Racism, and So On — 2021 Interview2021-01-16 · 1:22:13
“another end of the world is possible”
“Another end of the world is possible.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
return to normality
×2
communist horizon
×1
political imagination
×1
Its cast and sources
populated by
Toni Morrison2Michael Brooks1Daniel Jadue1Bill de Blasio presidential campaign, 20201Arielle Valsaint1Antonio Negri / Michael Hardt1Nathuram Godse1Mike Davis2
alongside works
Every retelling 4
13:11 Slavoj Zizek: COVID, Tech Billionaires, Racism, and So On — 2021 Interview2021-01-16 · 1:22:13
The October Chile protests' motto was not 'socialist revolution and all will be okay' but 'another end of the world is possible', refusing the single catastrophic end offered by the media. Žižek proposes it as today's motto., illustrating return to normality,communist opening
During the October 2019 Chilean protests, demonstrators used the slogan 'Another end of the world is possible', adapting the alter-globalization phrase, as a darkly honest acknowledgment of catastrophe combined with insistence on political agency over its form., illustrating pessimist optimism,revolutionary hope,apocalyptic politics
1:08:57 PANEL 1 THE MICHAEL BROOKS TRIBUTE SERIES: Cornel West & Slavoj Žižek"The Future Of The Left"2020 · 1:29:18
Žižek reports a slogan from the 2019 Chilean uprising: 'Another end of the world is possible', not defending the old normal but accepting that this world is ending while fighting for a different post-catastrophic world., illustrating another end of the world is possible,hope through hopelessness,revolutionary imagination
During the Chilean uprising, the protesters' slogan was not 'if we take over the world will not fall apart' but 'we want another end of the world', which Žižek endorses as the correct left attitude to systemic collapse., illustrating doing the impossible,ecology as political chance,revolutionary politics