Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is always the possibility of change. Because it is precisely this secret dream that keeps you enslaved to the system. Slavoj Žižek More Quotes by Slavoj Žižek More Quotes From Slavoj Žižek What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity? Slavoj Žižek what-if break culture The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by creating marginal spaces in which they can articulate and question their identity. Radical politics thus becomes an endless mocking parody and provocation, a gradual process of reidentification in which there are not final victories and ultimate demarcations Slavoj Žižek creating space goal We need useless theory more than ever today. Slavoj Žižek useless today needs As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy. Slavoj Žižek class add enemy Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being. Slavoj Žižek color tears self Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw that they could make a good career in top Western universities by playing on the guilt of white liberals. Slavoj Žižek guy careers white The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream. Slavoj Žižek knowledge-and-power dream reality
