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1131 quotes from Slavoj Žižek: 'Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.', 'We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.', and 'The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other'.
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Slavoj Žižek. Matter, Can Do. Slavoj Žižek (2009). “First As Tragedy, Then As Farce”, p.109, Verso. 116 Copy quote. Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is always the possibility of change.
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Slavoj Zizek Quotes. Philosopher. When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks. Slavoj Zizek. I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it. Slavoj Zizek. You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy ...
- The Sublime Object of Ideology
- The Plague of Fantasies
- The Parallax View
- In Defense of Lost Causes
- First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
- Living in The End Times
- Less Than Nothing
- Lenin 2017
- Trotsky: Communism and Terrorism
- Robespierre: Virtue and Terror
When we observe a thing, we see too much in it, we fall under the spell of the wealth of empirical detail which prevents us from clearly perceiving the notional determination which forms the core o......there are always three elements [of psychoanalysis] at work: the manifest dream-text, the latent dream-content or thought and the unconscious desire articulated in the dream. This desire attache...Dreams are nothing other than a particular form of thinking, made possible by the conditions of the state of sleep. it is the dream-work which creates that form, and it alone is the essence of drea...What we are thus arguing is not simply that ideology also permeates the alleged extraideological strata of everyday life, but that this materialization of ideology in external materiality reveals i...The original question of desire is not directly 'What do I want?', but 'What do others want from me? What do they see in me? What am I to others?'In a crisis, the underlying belief, disavowed and just practiced, in this thus directly asserted. it is crucial how, in this elevation of momney to the status of the only true commoodity ("the capi...
...crazy, tasteless even, as it may sound, the problem with Hitler was that he was not violent enough, that his violence was not 'essential' enough......there is never a "right moment" for the revolutionary act - the act is always, by definition, "premature".On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your stay with us, this hotel is totally smoke-free. For any infringement of this...
Confucius was not so much a philosopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social order within which individuals could lead happy and eth...There should be no compromise here: anti-Semitism is not just one-among ideologies; it is ideology as such kat'exohen. It embodies the zero-level (or the purest form) of ideology, providing its ele...“It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more successful than ourselves”There is nothing in Lacan which is not stupid, no exceptions to stupidity, so that what makes him not totally stupid is only the very inconsistency of his stupidity.The present book is thus neither The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hegel, nor is it yet another university textbook on Hegel (which is for morons, of course) it is something like The Imbecile's Guide t...In this precise sense, Kant was "the inventor of the philosophical history of philosophy": there are necessary stages in the development of philosophy, that is, one cannot directly get at the truth...The horror of the Holocaust cannot be represented; but this excess of represented content over its aesthetic representation has to infect the aesthetic form itself.What cannot be described should b...Khrushchev’s wager was that his (limited) confession would strengthen the communist movement – and in the short term he was right. One should always remember that the Khrushchev era was the last pe...Let's face it: today, Lenin and his legacy are perceived as hopelessly dated, belonging to a defunct 'paradigm'. Not only was Lenin understandably blind to many of the problems that are now central...The shock of 1914 was – to put it in Alain Badiou’s terms – a désastre, a catastrophe in which an entire world disappeared: not only the idyllic bourgeois faith in progress, but also the socialist...The walls which are now being thrown up all around the world are not of the same nature as the Berlin Wall, the icon of the Cold War. Today's walls appear not to belong to the same notion, since th...The true question is thus not who directly holds power, a coalition of political agents or the 'dictatorship' of one sole agent, but how the very field in which the total political process takes pl...The entire history of the Soviet Union can be comprehended as homologous with Freud's famous image of Rome, a city whose history is deposited in its present in the guise of the different layers of...he reference to psychoanalysis is crucial and very precise: in a radical revolution, people not only realize their old (emancipatory, etc.) dreams; rather, they have to reinvent their very modes of...The dead Lenin who does not know that he is dead thus stands for our own obstinate refusal to renounce the grandiose utopian projects and accept the limitations of our situation: there is no big Ot...In short, what the sensitive liberals want is a thus try to deprive the French Revolution of its status as the founding event of modern democracy, relegating it to a historical anomaly: there was a......one should also not allow our opponents to determine the field and topic of the struggle.for Robespierre, revolutionary terror is the very opposite of war: Robespierre was a pacifist, not out of hypocrisy or humanitarian sensitivity, but because he was well aware that war among nations...'Dictatorship' does not mean the opposite of democracy, but democracy's own underlying mode of functioning - from the very beginning, the thesis on the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' involved th...Indifference, on the other hand, sinks us further and further into the quagmire of stupidity.”. Trying, whether you fail or not, allows you to improve. You learn and you grow. Whereas if you fall into a passive and indifferent pattern, the opposite occurs. Then you are dealing with a decline into total stagnation.
Source. Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire -- it tells you how to desire. SLAVOJ ZIZEK. Source. I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating. SLAVOJ ZIZEK.
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