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ZIZ187 Ideology as Augmented Reality (15.05.2017)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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Is It Imperialist Defeating Local Traditions?

The book describes if after sex, man does not want the woman to get pregnant, how do you call it? You pull out the penis before, no? In what precise way should he then wipe his penis? It's one direction. The book has an excellent introduction where it explains the basic paradox. Before British colonization, India was in a massive state. Muslim influence and so on. And this book became almost irrelevant. It got a big revival in early 19th century when British colonizers got it in a very nice way: We don't want Indians to lose their tradition and to become individuals like us. They reprinted the book, propagated it, because it's covered if Indians follow

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