Living in the End Times — Why Knowing a Crisis Isn't Enough

Crisis in Perception · Oct 2, 2026 · 47m

What happens when people understand that a system is producing serious risks but continue living as though its basic structure can remain unchanged?

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

In Living in the End Times, Slavoj Žižek argues that ecological disruption, biogenetic change, economic instability, resource pressures, and widening social exclusion should be understood as interconnected tensions within contemporary global capitalism.

This Deep Dive follows Žižek’s use of the five stages of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and…