Recent content by Slavoj Žižek

Mein Gott! But distraction is precisely the function of ideology!

we are all eating from the trashcan!

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

I am only joking because in actuality much of the architecture (medieval and so on and so forth) in Ljubljana is really quite stunning.

Yes *sniff* the buzz as they say is typical Slovenian thought. And by that I mean *sniff* a resounding inability to make up one's mind so in this way it is very much like American democracy. you will love it!

1485844333412687879 The fool is a simpleton, a court jester who is allowed to tell the truth precisely because the 'performative power' (the sociopolitical efficiency) of his speech is suspended; the knave is the cynic who openly states the truth, a crook who tries to sell the open admission of...

The clearest concrete embodiment of this objectal status of the voice is the hypnotic voice: when the same word is repeated to us indefinitely we become disoriented, the word loses the last traces of its meaning, all that we have left is its inert presence exerting a kind of somniferous hypnotic...

And yet it is in this wanting that Pitbull - a singer who is perpetually donning the public mask of jouissance - operates. Pitbull is the artist of desire, the artist as Lacan's object petit a - the object that promises to fufill desire and in doing so structures the lack at the heart of the...

The humor is to be found in the way that one's distancing of the Other (in this case the anti-Slovenian remark that the PhDeac makes) is revealing of the strict hierarchy that structures one's sense of subjectivity. It is through this nationalistic act of negation that one draws the contours...

A well-known object relations joke is the fool who thought he was a grain of corn. After some time in a mental hospital he was cured; now he knew that he was not a grain, but a man. So they let him out; but soon after he came running back saying, 'I met a hen and I was afraid she would try to...

Mein Gott, what a shit reading of ideology!

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