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ZIZ005 Plea for Ethical Violence (2004)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Fascism of the Face

Lvanas: To see truth, I have already established a relationship with the face which can guarantee itself. Every language refers to this primordial work of honor; seed and veracity precedes absolute authenticity - end of work. The person who reads these lines against the background of what Zachlachom characterized as the circular self-referential structure of the symbolic order is likely to be criticized. Lvanas: This experience precisely of losing one's face.

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