[MGSA-L] Trouble in Paradise: Slavoj Žižek on the protests in Turkey and Greece

[Kosta Dalageorgas]

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite3_1_28/06/2013_506475

In regards to this article, what you are describing seems to be happening everywhere in the world with public space between taken over by private interests with no discussion or debate and just decision making by fiat. This has certainly been the case in Istanbul. 

For a recent article about how the citizens of Greece and Turkey should come together in a common purpose, look at Slavoj Žižek's recent article in the London Review of Books:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2013/06/28/slavoj-zizek/trouble-in-paradise

Kosta Dalageorgas
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