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ZIZ013 Left in Dark Times (16.09.2008)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Dangers of Charity

"Charity is in now. It's no longer as it was 100 years ago with Carnegie, some idiosyncratic guys," he says. "What's the message we get? You see that poster everywhere, some deformed black child and then for a price of one cup of tea, you know, you can save his life." He adds: 'The moral duty today is precisely to problematize this carnivalesque, transgressive model'

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