We hear all the time that we're moments from doomsday. Around us crises interlock and escalate
threatening our collective survival: Russia's invasion of Ukraine with its rising risk of
nuclear warfare is taking place against a backdrop of global warming ecological breakdown
and widespread social and economic unrest. Protestors and politicians repeatedly call for
action but still we continue to drift towards disaster. We need to do something. But what if
the only way for us to prevent catastrophe is to assume that it has already happened-to accept
that we're already five minutes past zero hour? Too Late to Awaken sees Slavoj iek forge a
vital new space for a radical emancipatory politics that could avert our course to
self-destruction. He illuminates why the liberal Left has so far failed to offer this
alternative and exposes the insidious propagandism of the fascist Right which has
appropriated and manipulated once-progressive ideas. Pithy urgent gutting and witty iek's
diagnosis reveals our current geopolitical nightmare in a startling new light and shows how
in order to change our future we must first focus on changing the past.
