€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: philosophy fame fortune public-speaking
Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: insights practise-vs-preach
Nowadays, you can do anything that you want—anal, oral, fisting—but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: sex liberalism security tolerance condoms oral-sex protection anal-sex fisting
For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: black-people respect italians paternalism native-americans multiculturalism wasps irishmen
The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air travel)—a century ago, such an eruption would have passed unnoticed. Technological development makes us more independent from nature. At the same time, at a different level, it makes us more dependent on nature’s whims.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: nature technology europe aviation 2010 eyjafjallajokull volcanoes 2010-eruptions-eyjafjallajökul socioeconomics
The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: capitalism communism conservatives marxism hamburgers berlin-wall
[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We recycle old paper, we buy organic food, we install long-lasting light bulbs—whatever—just so we can be sure that we are doing something. We make our individual contribution like the soccer fan who supports his team in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from his seat, in the belief that this will somehow influence the game's outcome.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: fate environment global-warming environmentalism reassurance guilt television football recycling fatalism catastrophe impotence organic-food 2010 2010-fifa-world-cup 2010-eruptions-eyjafjallajokul paper-recycling
The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: life nature earth humankind europe aviation iceland 2010 2010-eruptions-eyjafjallajokull butterfly-effect eruption-columns eyjafjallajokull volcanic-ash volcanoes
What we are dealing with here is another version of the Lacanian 'il n'y a pas de rapport ...': if, for Lacan, there is no sexual relationship, then, for Marxism proper, there is no relationship between economy and politics, no 'meta-language' enabling us to grasp the two levels from the same neutral standpoint, although—or, rather, because—these two levels are inextricably intertwined.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: politics sex economics marxism lacan
We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
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