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  1. Slavoj Žižek _ First As Tragedy, Then As

    are, in a certain way, continuously voting with our money. "Deeper" existential thinkers like to deploy variations on the theme of the "authentic" existential choice, where the very core of our being is at stake-a choice which involves a full existential engagement, as opposed to the superficial choices of this or that commodity. In the "Marxist" version of this theme, the multiplicity of choices with which the market bombards us only serves to obfuscate
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  2. Slavoj Žižek _ First As Tragedy, Then As

    What makes Berlusconi so interesting as a political phenomenon is the fact that he, as the most powerful politician in his country, acts more and more shamelessly: he not only ignores or neutralizes any legal investigation into the criminal activity that has allegedly supported his private business interests, he also systematically undermines the basic dignity associated with being the head of state. The dignity of classical politics is grounded in its elevation above the
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  3. Slavoj Žižek _ First As Tragedy, Then As

    itself as the "natural" advocate of democracy and human rights against the threat of totalitarianism-as if it were not the case that the Church accepted democracy only at the end of the nineteenth century, and even then with clenched teeth, as a desperate compromise, making it clear that it preferred monarchy,
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