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Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Difference Between a Waiter and an Actor

"The waiter who plays being a waiter, really is a waiter. That's the true identification," he says. "In the case of an actor, the performative efficiency is suspended." The difference between Simulakum and appearance program will bring us again into racism, sexism, body violence, you know what I mean? He adds: "To start a degree that it becomes, for our experience, interesting, we struggle"

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