
ZIZ014 On Violence (12.09.2008)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Importance of Ideology
Ideology is all this set of cultural and so on, prejudice which structure our daily lives. How do we deal with ideology today? Maybe you know it, it's also endlessly in Google. And then I spoke with architects and they admitted it, crazy as it may sound. That's the only way to ultimately account for a totally vulgar object like the concrete structure of a toilet. It's not just a utilitarian object. This is what interests me, this type of ideology. You don't even have to be fully aware of them, especially today in our so-called cynical era,. where very interesting things are happening.
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