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Book: The Parallax View
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Slavoj Žižek _ The Parallax View
{E}galitarian political 'extremism' or 'excessive radicalism' should always be read as a phenomenon of ideologico-political displacement: as an index of its opposite, of a limitation, of a refusal actually to 'go to the end.' What was the Jacobins' recourse to radical 'terror' if not a kind of hysterical acting-out bearing witness to their inability to disturb the very fundamentals of economic order {private property, and so on}? And does the same not go even for the so-called 'excesses' of Political Correctness? Do they also not display a retreat from disturbing the systemic {economic, etc.} causes of racism and sexism?
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Slavoj Žižek _ The Parallax View
Thus 2t Grams confronts us with the same interpretive dilemma as the one in The Wings of the Dove: is the suicidal sacrificial gesture a true ethical act or not? In contrast to Wings, the answer here is yes: there is no narcissistic staging of one's death at work when Paul shoots himself, no manipulative strategy of using one's death as a gift destined to secretly sabotage what it appears to make possible.
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Slavoj Žižek _ The Parallax View
art is not just a heightened procedure of providing sensual pleasures, but a medium of Truth;"
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Slavoj Žižek _ The Parallax View
in contrast to modern art, which causes displeasure-modern art, by definition, hurts. In this precise sense, modern art is sublime: it causes pleasure-in-pain, it produces its effect through its own failure, insofar as it refers to the impossible Things.
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Slavoj Žižek _ The Parallax View
human Reason cannot be reduced to the result of evolutionary adaptation; art is not just a heightened procedure of providing sensual pleasures, but a medium of Truth;
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Slavoj Žižek _ The Parallax View
What we are dealing with here is another version of the Lacanian ' ...': if, for Lacan, there is no sexual relationship, then, for Marxism proper, there is no 'meta-language' enabling us to grasp the two levels from the same neutral standpoint, although-or, rather, -these two levels are inextricably intertwined.
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