“Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“capitalism is for Karatani not a ‘pure’ reign of B, but a triad (or, rather, a Borromean knot) of nation–state–capital: nation as… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“What this means is that we should reject not only all manifestations of ‘alternative modernity’ (which amount to a ‘capitalism without capitalism’,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Recall Marx’s fundamental insight about the “bourgeois” limitation of the logic of equality: capitalist inequalities (“exploitation”) are not the “unprincipled violations of… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
“The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is so overwhelming… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
“In our quest for entertainment and instant gratification, we have become detached from the real world and its problems, contributing to the erosion of… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
“In contrast to the situation in 1945, the world does not need the US; it is the US that needs the rest of the world” — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
“as in Heinrich Heine’s (a contemporary of Kierkegaard’s) well-known saying that one should value above everything else ‘freedom, equality and crab soup’. ‘Crab soup’… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
“The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
“...A friend has to be outside my reach, beyond my grasp. And there can be no friendship with someone whom I am not ready… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
