
ZIZ008 The Euthanasia of Tolerant Reason (01.05.2006)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Importance of Objective Violence
In a Marxist way, I attempted to call it objective violence. Violence inscribed into the very neutral functioning of society. The other would have been symbolic violence in the sense of language serving as instrument of oppression and so on. To maintain a system at its zero level of absolute peace, you already have to put energy into it to work.
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