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ZIZ187 Ideology as Augmented Reality (15.05.2017)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Universality of the Western Way of Life

When an ethnic group is prevented from expressing this identity in a creative way, then it cannot but react so that it withdraws into negative difference. In short, fundamentalist violence is a reaction for which predominant culture is responsible or applied to immigrants and so on. If they are violent, it's because our integration was constraining their creative way of life. Universality is not located above particular identities. It is not their neutral container, but it is an antagonism that cuts from within each way of life"

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