Surplus-Enjoyment

"Slavoj Žižek takes on the Hegelian notion of "verkehrte Welt" (the world turned upside down) and considers it the perfect concept for our current predicament. An example of this kind of topsy-turvydom is when you have precise, carefully laid plans and it implodes at the last minute leaving everyone running around in chaos. It encapsulates the basic reversal in a Hegelian dialectical process in which even the best-laid plans turn into their opposite -- a dream of freedom into terror, morality into hypocrisy, excessive wealth into poverty for the majority. And is the Covid epidemic not the…