RSA Animate

I completely love these RSA animate videos. They get across the point so much more effectively than just listening to the speech. I've tried listening to the original before and it just isn't as engaging - though, that said, your mind does wander more without the animation.

Either way, it's a beautiful idea and I completely love it.

This video in particular is a favourite of mine. I generally like Zizek (though some of his ideas make him come across as a tit) and this is him at, if not his finest, then undoubtedly his clearest. The examination of the attempt to ensure that capitalism contains its own salvation is really enlightening and it does really relay how insipid contemporary consumerism has become of late.

Let us hope, though, that this new 'cultural' capitalism has opened the doors to an ethical debate which has been dead for decades.