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ZIZ014 On Violence (12.09.2008)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The High Point of Censorship

There is a precise function of censorship here, which is you cannot have it both ways. The price you pay is to sabotage emotional involvement in the sense of having an engaging story and so on and so on. No wonder that the French cinema director, Katrin Breya, Romans, who tries to do precisely this, can't penetrate the big market. They're afraid of even a minimum of narrative. It's not enough to know the rules. You must know as it were, meta rules, which tells you how to deal with the rules. This is the mystery of customs and it's crucial for our social coexistence - ideology insides itself.

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