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ZIZ006 The Spectator’s Malevolent Neutrality (08.06.2004)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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What Is Subversive Art?

I'm talking about stupid, as in the field of question, well, what radical art? Because our own mainstream also, I mean, explicitly subversive art. Does it happen somewhere in the interface between,. let's say, the text, the verbal art stage performs whatever enters the spectator or is it a function of the spectator, him or himself? No, okay. What I tried to, my thesis was only that before we are spectators, we are actors. But even when we are that case, I claim, the situation is always more complex. For example, Jacques Lacan in his seminar on ethics of psychoanalysis gives a wonderful cynical theory of the Greek chorus. That chorus is the

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