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ZIZ006 The Spectator’s Malevolent Neutrality (08.06.2004)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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Hardcore Pornography Is a Strange Prohibition

I think what Jacques Lachon meant when he said that the truth has the structure of a fiction sometimes the only way to articulate some dramatic truth is to tell to herself oh it's just a fiction so because it's not for the real I can bring it out all now. There were four or five years ago a couple of attempts first steps in this direction do you remember last von Trier's idiot where you see in that all the scene that they are really doing it? But still somehow somehow still it doesn't work but nonetheless this tendency to do it to do the impossible which for me would be what the impossible for me as I wrote in one of my first books 20 years ago would

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