Zizek Essays series is short, punchy books showcasing the best of Slavoj Zizek's thought and writing on the most urgent issues of today. The first book, Against Progress explores what is lost when opponents of the future are allowed to define it, ruthlessly exposing what different visions of progress exclude or sacrifice. In a whirlwind tour that takes in everything from gentrification to the theory of relativity, Lacan to Lenin, Putin to Mary Poppins and Marine Le Pen to the end of the world, these essays never stop asking hard questions of imagined futures.