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“The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.”

Quote by Slavoj Žižek

Book:Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism

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Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism

This book delves into the implications of the end of history and the end of capitalism, analyzing the potential shifts in political and economic landscapes. more

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A Slovenian philosopher and an influential figure in contemporary Western philosophy. Born on March 21, 1949, Slavoj Žižek is known for his unique Marxist perspective and profound analysis of culture, politics, and film. more

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“What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but in order for us to actually be free in our social interactions, there must be an extremely elaborated network of health, law, institutions, moral rules and so on.”

Want States Law Order Social Moral Institutions Contradiction Interaction Regulation Social Interaction

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!”

Thinking Children Helping Causes Forget Poverty Scene Messages Starving Ideological

Book:Living in the End Times

Source: Living in the End Times

“Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social order within which individuals could lead happy and ethical lives. He was the first to outline clearly what one is tempted to call the elementary scene of ideology, its zero-level, which consists in asserting the (nameless) authority of some substantial Tradition.”

Firsts Order Individual Social Levels Scene Authority Tradition Ideology Zero Ethical Metaphysical Tempted Harmonious Outlines Nameless Social Order

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse.”

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the ceremony, they played the second movement from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, which is usually known as the "portrait of Stalin." And then when we embraced, the music that they played was Schubert's "Death and the Maiden." I enjoyed this in a childish way! But marriage was all a nightmare and so on and so on.”

Way Known Wife Movement Jokes Enjoyed Nightmare Portraits Ceremony Symphony Select Maidens Organizer Schubert Shostakovich

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.”

Subjects Western Haunting Academia Spectre

Book:The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology

Source: The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology

“[A]t the beginning of November 2001, there was a series of meetings between White House advisers and senior Hollywood executives with the aim of co-ordinating the war effort and establishing how Hollywood could help in the "war against terrorism" by getting the right ideological message across not only to Americans, but also to the Hollywood public around the globe the ultimate empirical proof that Hollywood does in fact function as an "ideological state apparatus.”

Source: Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

“As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.”

Ifs Difficult Enemy Class Let Me Add Propaganda Marxist Lacan

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner.”

Kind May Stills Dream Corners Realistic Marxist Around The Corner

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“In the electoral campaign, President Bush named as the most important person in his life Jesus . Now he has a unique chance to prove that he meant it seriously: for him, as for all Americans today, "Love thy neighbor!" means "Love the Muslims!" OR IT MEANS NOTHING AT ALL.”

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Author:Slavoj Žižek