“ In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit is first laid out for us to sniff and inspect for traces of illness. In the typic… Slavoj Zizek
“ My claim here is not merely that I am a materialist through and through, and that the subversive kernel of Christianity is accessible also to a materialist approach; my thesis is much stronger: this k… Slavoj Zizek
“ What we are dealing with here is another version of the Lacanian ' ...': if, for Lacan, there is no sexual relationship, then, for Marxism proper, there is no 'meta-language' enabling us to grasp the… Slavoj Zizek
“ When do I actually encounter the Other 'beyond the wall of language', in the rel of his or her being? Not when I am able to describe her, not even when I learn her values, dreams, and so on, but only… Slavoj Zizek
“ If the secret core of potlatch is the reciprocity of exchange, why is this reciprocity not asserted directly, why does it assume the mystified form of two consecutive acts each of which is staged as a… Slavoj Zizek
“ We thus have three levels of antagonism: the Two are never two, the One is never one, the Nothing is never nothing. Sinthome—the signifier of the barred Other—registers the antagonism of the Two, thei… Slavoj Zizek
“ Up to a decade or two ago, the system production-nature (man's productive-exploitative relationship with nature and its resources) was perceived as a constant, whereas everybody was busy imagining dif… Slavoj Zizek
“ [I]n so far as postmodern politics involves a '[t]heoretical retreat from the problem of domination within capitalism,' it is here, in this silent suspension of class analysis, that we are dealing wit… Slavoj Zizek
“ Money is precisely an object whose status depends on how we 'think' about it: if people no longer treat this piece of metal as money, if they no longer 'believe' in it as money, it no longer is money. Slavoj Zizek
“ As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency. Slavoj Zizek
“ Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great. Slavoj Zizek
“ Liberal attitudes towards the other are characterized both by respect for otherness, openness to it, and an obsessive fear of harassment. In short, the other is welcomed insofar as its presence is not… Slavoj Zizek
“ Als Präsident Obama den Aufstand als legitime Meinungsäußerung begrüßte, die von der Regierung anerkannt werden müsse, war die Verwirrung komplett. Die Massen in Kairo und Alexandria wollten keine Ane… Slavoj Zizek
“ It is easy for an academic to claim at a round table that we live in a post-ideological universe - the moment he visits the restroom after the heated discussion, he is again deep-knee in ideology. Slavoj Zizek
“ The pursuit of happiness is such a key element of the American (ideological) dream that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this phrase: We holds these truths to be self-evident, that all men… Slavoj Zizek
“ The Christian motto 'All men are brothers', however, also means that those who do not accept brotherhood are not men. Slavoj Zizek
“ Σε ένα σύμπαν όπου όλοι αναζητάμε το αληθινό πρόσωπο κάτω από το προσωπείο, ο καλύτερος τρόπος να παραπλανήσουμε είναι να φορέσουμε το προσωπείο της ίδιας της αλήθειας Slavoj Zizek
“ Recall Marx’s fundamental insight about the bourgeois limitation of the logic of equality: capitalist inequalities (exploitation) are not the unprincipled violations of the principle of equality, but… Slavoj Zizek
