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ZIZ001 A Lacanian Plea for Fundamentalism (18.09.2000)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Paradox of the Taoist, Attic and Spirit of the Global Capitalism

The image of Tibet, even today, and it comes from the very beginning, is radically ambiguous. Even this radical ambiguity, so that I don't lose time, did you sometimes listen to this, you know, low horns, almost horrifying Buddhist music? It's supposed to be spiritual peace and so on but I wonder if FBI was not right when they saw a heart in 1996. The idea of Tibet as the place of ultimate peace, inner peace, was from the very start, the dream of all colonizers. For example, I wonder if you know that it was already in 1900 or four that an English expedition penetrated into Tibet occupied Lhasa killing on the way of course hundreds of

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