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Žižek And So On

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The Second Clause Is That We Act Despite

In Jusek's example of the Emperor's new clothes, there's something of this catastrophe that's supposed to occur when people see that the Emperor is walking around naked. So isn't there something to this example where when the soup can is thrown on the painting, it's supposed to be this reveal, this, this, like opening of the catastrophe, where instead of course, it continues the same? "Transgression is rendered futile by the smooth functioning of the system," he says. It's the structural, economic and political incentives against it.

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