Slavoj Zizek

Hegel thought that, in the movement of history, the world spirit passes from one country to another, from the East to the West. Something similar happened at the beginning of the 21st century: the world spirit passed from cinema, the art of the 20th century, to the TV series. At the top of my list are three sci-fi dystopias: Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror , which takes place in a world just a little ahead of ours where tendencies we clearly discern today have become reality; Patrick Somerville’s Station Eleven , a uniquely optimistic utopia depicting how performing art can save the human spirit after a global apocalypse; and Three-Body , a Chinese miniseries based on Liu Cixin’s novel, much better than its English Netflix remake. Plus I should add Alfonso Cuaron’s non

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