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ZIZ004 The Reality of the Virtual (2004)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Difference Between Left and Right

It's not a category of some formless, content disturbing order, it's a pure structural gap. It's an entirely non-substantial category. A pure difference in the sense that it's a difference which is paradoxically prior to what it is the difference between. The two positive terms appear afterwards as attempts to dominate, cover up the tension and so on of this difference. Again, how can this be? Another simple example just to illustrate this logic, the political distinction,. I know it's half forgotten today, nobody wants to hear about it, but nonetheless, the distinction between the two terms is a different. If you ask a right winger, how is the entire social field structure

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