RSA Animate - Choice w/ Professor Renata Salecl

A new RSA Animate is always a treat. Below the shorter animated talk, I have included the original full talk that runs a little more than half an hour.

RSA Animate - Choice

Uploaded by theRSAorg on Jun 16, 2011

In this new RSAnimate, Professor Renata Salecl explores the paralysing anxiety and dissatisfaction surrounding limitless choice. Does the freedom to be the architects of our own lives actually hinder rather than help us? Does our preoccupation with choosing and consuming actually obstruct social change?

Taken from the RSA's free public events programme www.thersa.org/events

Renata Salecl - The Paradox of Choice

Fusing sociology, psychoanalysis and philosophy, Professor Renata Salecl shows that individual choice is rarely based on a simple rational decision with a predictable outcome.

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