"If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them."
- Slavoj Žižek
"Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures."
"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."
"The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent ..."
"Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction."
"I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem."
"When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget a..."
"as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency."
"This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to m..."