Syntagma Square
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Oct 16, 2026
Slavoj ŽižekSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I am sick and tired of revolutionaries or protest movements which focus on those ecstatic moments.
Slavoj ŽižekSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Oh my God, one million people on Syntagma Square, on Tahrir, in Istanbul, and so on.
Slavoj ŽižekSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We were all so enthusiastic there, and so on and so on.
Slavoj ŽižekSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm not impressed by that at all.
Jan-Werner MüllerGUEST
Or, you know, if, again, maybe that's already forgotten in certain ways, but remember all these so-called movements of the squares, especially in Southern Europe during the Euro crisis.
Jan-Werner MüllerGUEST
You know, Syntagma Square in, in, in, in Athens, couple of different ones in Spain.
Jan-Werner MüllerGUEST
And people said, "Look, you know, we're building this camp.
Jan-Werner MüllerGUEST
We don't just wanna show big numbers," because after all, the numbers weren't necessarily that big, "but we wanna draw people in to discuss certain issues." So different ambitions require different spaces, which I know for all the architects here is, like, blindingly obvious, um, but is not always remembered in this discussion about democracy and, and, and space.
Michele OlenderHOST
I think it's probably a great idea to have at least your first night booked in advance.
Michele OlenderHOST
And the first night we ate at a place called Mani Mani near kind of the big, popular, very nice, I guess, square, Syntagma Square in Athens.
Michele OlenderHOST
And it was not a vegan restaurant, not vegan at all, but it had so many absolutely delicious offerings.
Michele OlenderHOST
And it was super, super simple.
Michele OlenderHOST
And I have to assume, based on the taste, that these are local vegetables.
Michele OlenderHOST
Fresh ingredients because it was extraordinarily good, really extraordinarily good.
Michele OlenderHOST
That was our first night at Mani Mani off of Syntagma Square in Athens.
Michele OlenderHOST
Now, we did go to a couple of specifically vegan restaurants, including a very, very well-known place, Veganaki.
David GuraGUEST
I remember that.
David GuraGUEST
Syntagma Square, yeah.
Kai RyssdalHOST
That's exactly right.
Kai RyssdalHOST
Good for you for remembering the name.
Brian SullivanHOST
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Brian SullivanHOST
Athens in 2009 when they were Molotov cocktailing banks and rioting in Syntagma Square.
Brian SullivanHOST
I was there in person.
Brian SullivanHOST
It was pretty crazy.
Slavoj ŽižekSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I am sick and tired of revolutionaries or protest movements which focus on those ecstatic moments.
Slavoj ŽižekSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Oh my God, one million people on Syntagma Square, on Tahrir in Istanbul, and so on.
Slavoj ŽižekSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We were all so enthusiastic there, and so on, and so on.
Slavoj ŽižekSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm not impressed by that at all.
David TomsGUEST
And I remember just, yeah, we went into this one museum, which was like the Museum of Contemporary Art or something, and saw this really cool exhibit uh which is this lady reina papa spiro who i quote and i quote from her um introduction to her own paintings and and sculptures and so on and then we were in the banaki museum which is one of the museums in athens that's like one of the real old-fashioned kind of museums uh you know where it's just lots of statues and all this kind of stuff and then i saw something there and i was like oh this is kind of weird you know and it took a couple of days, but I went, oh, there's something kind of, it's like they're almost kind of in dialogue with each other somehow.
David TomsGUEST
And I also remember while we were there in Syntagma Square, there was a protest about something, you know, it was Athens.
David TomsGUEST
So there was a protest.
David TomsGUEST
And so I was kind of thinking about lots of different things.
David TomsGUEST
And because the Bernacchi is right by the parliament and Syntagma Square and all this kind of stuff.
David TomsGUEST
And then you had Reina Papaspiro's work.
David TomsGUEST
And it was just kind of in my mind.