Voici un petit détournement des familles réalisé il y a déjà quelques années. Le texte est emprunté au philosophe Slavoj Zizek, plus exactement à la conclusion de son documentaire The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012). Zizek s'appuie sur Walter Benjamin pour ce passage qui pourrait donner un nouveau sens à ce jour des morts. Je vous mets le texte et la séquence vidéo en dessous.
How come is it easier for us to imagine the end of all life on earth, an asteroid hitting the planet, then a modest change in our economic order. Perhaps the time has come to set our priorities straight and to become realist by way of demanding the impossible in the economic domain... The surprising explosion of occupy, the mass mobilisation in Greece, the crowd on Tarhir square, they all bear witness to the hidden potential for a different potential future. There is no guarantee that this future will arise, no train of history on which we simply have to take a ride. it depends on us, on our will. In revolutionary upheavals, some utopian dreams take place, they explode, and even if the actual result of a social upheaval is just a commercialized everyday life, this excess of energy, what gets lost in the result persists not in reality but as dream hunting us, waiting to be revealed. In this sense, whenever we are engaged in radical emancipatory politics, we should never forget, as Walter Benjamin put it almost a century ago, that every revolution is not only directed towards the future, but it redeems also the past failed revolutions. All the ghosts, the living dead of the past revolutions, will finally find their home in the new freedom.
Slavoj Zizek
