An Evening with Slavoj Žižek
Intelligence Squared
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The Mystery of Commodity Fetishism
I think this precisely was my point that and this is how so-called cynical reason function. Slaughter dyke, the German guy who already 30 years ago now I think in his first big book, Critic of Cynical Reason, proposed this formula turning around Marxist formula,. Zivisinta sneaked abur Zittunes. They don't know what they are doing but they are doing it. This is why I think I mentioned before all those paradoxes of objectified belief. Like you don't believe but you follow a belief materialized in your social practical activity. And I claim Marx knew it. Read capital carefully what Marx says there. No capitalist is as stupid as to
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