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Slavoj Žižek
1 year
A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Barbie.
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Love is an extremely violent act.
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God loves you, but not enough to save you.
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I’m not afraid of God, I am afraid of men.
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6 years
We have changed the world so much, that it’s high time to interpret it.
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6 years
There is more truth in the mask we wear, in the game we play, the fiction we obey and follow, than in what is concealed beneath the mask.
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@Slavojiek
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7 years
No sex, please, we’re post-human!
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6 years
It is traumatic to accept that life is not just a stupid process of reproduction and attaining pleasures, but that it is in the service of a Truth.
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The real is too cruel or too idiotic.
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4 years
Sexuality is the great practice of failure.
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4 years
Pornography has no subversive charm.
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
6 years
Postmodern deconstructivists are the usefull idiots of capitalism.
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
6 years
In sex as well as in politics, we take refuge in catastrophic scenarios in order to avoid the actual deadlock.
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
11 years
We want coffee without caffeine, beer without alcohol and love without its dangerous moment.
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
7 months
Poor Things claims to be a feminist film, but it is simply ableist and misogynistic and disgusting. Watch Barbie instead, same story but better.
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
10 years
I don’t want to repeat myself but: What makes me depressed, seeing stupid people happy.
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@Slavojiek
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6 years
We want coffee without caffeine, beer without alcohol and World Cup without football.
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@Slavojiek
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5 years
‘You know what I’m saying?’ as the new hysteric’s question.
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Slavoj Žižek
7 years
Can’t revolution wait for a few years? I haven’t finished my book.
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
6 years
First as quotebot, then as tragedy.
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
9 years
Normality is a neurosis
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
1 year
Barbie: international Angst rising
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
7 years
First as tragedy, then as tragedy.
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
9 years
There is no deeper meaning in suffering
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
5 years
Enjoy your Ideologiekritik!
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
8 years
Love is more radical
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
8 years
The self is the fetishized illusion of a substantial core of subjectivity where, in reality, there is nothing.
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
6 years
Every rule needs a perversion.
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Slavoj Žižek
8 years
The shocking realisation that the throne is empty.
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
7 years
I hope I don’t disappoint you but there is no master.
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
7 years
Not everything is about Hegel
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Slavoj Žižek
11 years
New Age Capitalism: Ah you like your job? So why should I pay you?
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6 years
Marx is ok, even on Wall Street, there are people who love him today.
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
7 years
It’s a matter of life and death for a slightly more radical left to emerge.
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
9 years
I hope I don’t disappoint you but I’ve decided not to treat you as idiots
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
9 years
The feeling of being loved is violent and even traumatic
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
7 years
What are we in the eyes of Hegel?
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
8 years
I still naively believe in the efficiency of theoretical thinking.
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
11 years
What makes me depressed, seeing stupid people happy
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
9 years
As Kierkegaard says ‘Love believes all things - and yet is never deceived'
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Slavoj Žižek
9 years
The truly radical act is to not enjoy!
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
7 years
Reconciliation means to accept the radical otherness.
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Slavoj Žižek
11 years
If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love her/him
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Slavoj Žižek
10 years
Things exist by mistake.
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Slavoj Žižek
11 years
Love me now - read me later
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
8 years
You’ve had your anti-communist fun, and you are pardoned for it - time to get serious once again!
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
9 years
The reality is the reality of the struggle
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Slavoj Žižek
10 years
Forget about love
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Slavoj Žižek
9 years
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
8 years
The violent youth know very well what they’re doing, but they nonetheless do it.
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Slavoj Žižek
9 years
Utopia is not a free imagination it is a kind of inner urgency, that you are forced to image it.
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9 years
„Interpassivity of Leitkultur: We expect refugees to commit to European values – so we don’t have to do it.“
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
10 years
Love is a cosmic imbalance.
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Slavoj Žižek
11 years
Imagine yourself passionately in love… it’s a catastrophe
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Slavoj Žižek
9 years
Sometimes is better to be a hypocrite than a realist
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Slavoj Žižek
11 years
Love is what Buddhists would have called the origin of evil.
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
8 years
No wonder the Wagnerian heroes want so desperately to die
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
7 years
Forget the Name of the Father!
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
11 years
The paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything
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Slavoj Žižek
9 years
There is no big Other
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Slavoj Žižek
11 years
Masturbation is a unique form of creative self-expression.
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Slavoj Žižek
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Utopian dream: the subject is already present at the scene of its own absence
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Slavoj Žižek
11 years
‘Nymphomaniac��� is a profoundly romantic film.
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Slavoj Žižek
11 years
As Gramsci said ’the old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time for monsters’
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Slavoj Žižek
11 years
We changed university from a place of freedom into an useful factory of producing experts.
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Slavoj Žižek
11 years
My very good friend @NeinQuarterly knows more about German ideology than German ideology about itself
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Slavoj Žižek
11 years
Fear is private property
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
7 years
Anyone who doesn't want to speak about Bayreuth should also keep quiet about Europe.
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@Slavojiek
Slavoj Žižek
10 years
Virtuality structures reality.
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Slavoj Žižek
11 years
Capitalism, my ass.
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Slavoj Žižek
9 years
Enjoy!
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Slavoj Žižek
9 years
The subject is divided in something and nothing.
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Slavoj Žižek
11 years
Democracy: you are free to do what you want, but we make you not to want too much
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Slavoj Žižek
11 years
My whole economy of writing is in fact based on an obsessional ritual to avoid the actual act of writing.
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Slavoj Žižek
11 years
Sex is simultaneously the condition of possibility and of impossibility of love.
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11 years
This is the dark account of Judith Butler
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Slavoj Žižek
10 years
The only way for me authentically to desire is to reject all positive objects of desire, and desire nothingness itself
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Slavoj Žižek
11 years
I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it
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Slavoj Žižek
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The God that a radical Left needs is accepting his erasure.
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Slavoj Žižek
11 years
I would like to wear a mask of myself on my face, so people would think I am not myself buy someone pretending to be me
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Slavoj Žižek
10 years
I know it’s too late, but happy birthday to a very good friend of mine @NeinQuarterly
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What will replace capitalism?
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How real is reality?
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When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad taste remarks.
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Coke is it!
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Slavoj Žižek
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The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance.
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There is a productive estrangement
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Slavoj Žižek
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The main victim of the ongoing crisis is not capitalism but democracy
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Sometimes, doing nothing is the best you can do.
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Slavoj Žižek
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The true dreamers are those who think that things can go indefinitely the way they are, just with some cosmetic chances.
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To keep the idea of an eternal love someone has to die!
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Today, nothing is more oppressive and regulated than being a simple hedonist.
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Lets fall out of love
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Theory starts with questions not with answers!
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I am an old fashioned romantic guy and I like it
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Slavoj Žižek
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The possibility to have a normal human life is not about fairness or hard work - is more about lottery
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Slavoj Žižek
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Love is evil.
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Slavoj Žižek
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A true revolutionist is not a crazy optimistic Stalinist - it’s someone deeply melancholic.
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Love your symptom
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