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ZIZ006 The Spectator’s Malevolent Neutrality (08.06.2004)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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Is There More Truth in Theater Than in Reality?

I think that the fundamental lesson of theater for me is precisely that there is more truth in theater than in reality behind the theater. I'm not some kind of crazy subjective idealist when I see reality I mean social reality our real life interactions already staged as an escape escape from a traumatic access which precisely you encounter in the theater and very sorry if I was too long but at least you know why my friends call me Fidel like Fidel Castro  you know I didn't do it only My wife Erin Thanksgiving has headed to WORK inside the Opera Center on July 15th on February 14, 2015.

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