Slavoj Zizek QuotesFar from being suicidal, far from indicating a desire for self-annihilation, cutting is a radical……Attempts to reassert “old values”are..a failed perverse strategy of imposing prohibitions that can no longer be taken seriously.Nov 4, 2018Nov 4, 2018
Slavoj Zizek QuotesWe effectively become something by pretending that we already are that.…This “outside” is never simply a “mask” we wear in public but is rather the symbolic order itself.Nov 4, 2018Nov 4, 2018
Slavoj Zizek QuotesIn ‘The Piano Teacher’..what[The fantasy that defines the female Teacher causes anxiety in her seducer which is what her masochism intends to cause. To the rise of…Nov 3, 2018Nov 3, 2018
Slavoj Zizek QuotesI love the other…on account of the very troubling excess of life in him/her.…There are four ways to disavow this impossible/real conjunction of love and sexual enjoyment: (1) the celebration of asexual “pure” love…Oct 31, 2018Oct 31, 2018
Slavoj Zizek QuotesDemocratic struggle should not be fetishized; it is one form of struggle, and its choice should be…In Lacan’s later versions of the act, this moment of “madness” beyond strategic intervention remains. …The act is, in its innermost…Oct 31, 2018Oct 31, 2018
Slavoj Zizek QuotesThis gap between financial circulation, which follows its own speculative rules, and reality is……this is what should worry us, this big divorce slowly developing between democracy and today’s capitalism: the success of Chinese…Oct 30, 2018Oct 30, 2018
Slavoj Zizek Quotesthe means of production change more rapidly than the relations of production“the means of production change more rapidly than the relations of production — is absolutely the best way to explain the fall of…Oct 30, 2018Oct 30, 2018
