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ZIZ004 The Reality of the Virtual (2004)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Paradox of Virtual Texture

At the narrative level, we get a simple story or another. But at the level of let's call it virtual texture, all these micro, micro-sans, maybe we could even call it writing,. We get practically the opposite message. With this honest, fascist, resisting, decadent, Jewish cosmopolitan takeover. At the same time, addresses our secret fascist dreams. So I think that in a similar way to how we should read sound of music, it is wrong to read shortcuts simply as kind of a social cricket piece. There is another much more optimistic life asserting even level.

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