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TRUMP’S INAUGURAL SPEECH: THE MADNESS OF COMMON SENSE
The era of common sense is over
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Slavoj Žižek
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LENIN: 101 YEARS LATER
Who controls the controllers?
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Slavoj Žižek
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DAVID LYNCH IS DEAD, BUT HIS ETHICS IS MORE ALIVE THAN EVER
Ethics as the most dark and daring of conspiracies
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Slavoj Žižek
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WHY THE FANTASY OF AN EVIL INDIFFERENT GOD IS NECESSARY
Pain and boredom are our lot, and the world is dirt, nothing more
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Slavoj Žižek
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MUSK AGAINST BANNON: WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF PRODUSERS
Trump faces an 'impossible' coalition between digital feudal masters and exploited workers—one that will inevitably collapse.
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Slavoj Žižek
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December 2024

THE PELICOT RAPES: A NEW FORM OF PERVERSION
We must begin by recognizing that Dominique – the manipulative master of Gisele – is not a strong man but a weakling incapable of openly asserting his…
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Slavoj Žižek
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PAINTED VOID
The emptiness at the core of desire is nothing short of terrifying
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Slavoj Žižek
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DISCLAIMER: A RECONCILIATION BETWEEN UTOPIA AND DESPAIR
The dark fantasies we attribute to others are part of our own identity.
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Slavoj Žižek
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WELCOME TO THE METAPHYSICAL WAR
The ongoing conflict is fundamentally a war of spirit against spirit, between two mutually exclusive visions of what it means to be human
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Slavoj Žižek
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November 2024

THE MINOTAUR’S DEATH CRAMPS
In this new emerging post-Minotaur system, authoritarianism and liberalism coincide.
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Slavoj Žižek
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GROUCHO MARX, AI, AND THE ABSURD COMEDY OF GLOBAL WARMING
If AI determines that eliminating humans is in the best interest of life on Earth—or its own survival—so be it.
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Slavoj Žižek
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BEETHOVEN AND THE ACT
Stanley Kubrick was right when he used this movement as the music for his dystopian masterpiece A Clockwork Orange.
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Slavoj Žižek
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