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As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.

Last remark in an interview for the CN8 show Nitebeat - 2003.

Atheism

Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you masturbate with a partner.

Interview in HARDtalk, BBC World Service, 12th January 2010.

Love, Sex

I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing - I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end of one project I have the idea that I didn’t really succeed in telling what I wanted to tell, that I need a new project - it’s an absolute nightmare. But my whole economy of writing is in fact based on an obsessional ritual to avoid the actual act of writing.

Conversations with Žižek by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly - Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004.

Author

See you, either in Hell, or in Communism.

Parting remark in "The Culture Show" 2010.

Atheism

With Lenin it was always a substantial commitment. I always have a certain admiration for people who are aware that somebody has to do the job. What I hate about these liberal, pseudo-left, beautiful soul academics is that they are doing what they are doing fully aware that somebody else will do the job for them.

Conversations with Žižek by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly 0- Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004.

Atheism, Politics

I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I am saying now is not unconditional, it is just a hypothesis," and so on. It really is a most arrogant position. I think that the only way to be honest and expose yourself to criticism is to state clearly and dogmatically where you are. You must take the risk and have a position.

Conversations with Žižek by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly - Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004.

Atheism, Politics

A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.

The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology - London/New York: Verso, 1999.

Atheism, Philosophy

"They are trying as directly as possible to sell you experiences, i.e. what you are able to do with the car, not the car as a product itself. An extreme example of this is this existing economic marketing concept, which basically evaluates the value of you as a potential consumer of your own life. Like how much are you worth, in the sense of all you will spend to buy back your own life as a certain quality life. You will spend so much in doctors, so much in beauty, so much in transcendental meditation, so much for music, and so on. What you are buying is a certain image and practice of your life. So what is your market potential, as a buyer of your own life in this sense? "

Interview with "The Believer" magazine, July 2004.

Politics

Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.

Žižek! - 2005.

Atheism, Politics, Religion

"It is also crucial to bear in mind the interconnection between the Decalogue... and its modern obverse, the celebrated 'Human Rights'. As the experience of our post-political liberal-permissive society amply demonstrates, Human Rights are ultimately, at their core, simply Rights to violate the Ten Commandments. 'The right to privacy' - the right to adultery, in secret, where no one sees me or has the right to probe my life. 'The right to pursue happiness and to possess private property' - the right to steal (to exploit others). 'Freedom of the press and of the expression of opinion' - the right to lie. 'The right of free citizens to possess weapons' - the right to kill. And, ultimately, 'freedom of religious belief' - the right to worship false gods."

"The fragile absolute: or, why is the Christian legacy worth fighting for?" Slavoj Žižek.

Patriotism, Ethics

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