Heaven in Disorder Quotes

“Jean-Paul Sartre wrote that if you are attacked for the same text by both sides in a political conflict, this is one of the few reliable signs that you are on the right path.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

“One often hears that today’s cultural war is fought between traditionalists who believe in a firm set of values and postmodern relativists who consider ethical rules, sexual identities, and so on as a result of contingent power games. But is this really the case? The ultimate postmodernists today are conservatives themselves. Once traditional authority loses its substantial power, it is not possible to return to it—all such returns today are a postmodern fake. Does Trump enact traditional values? No, his conservativism is a postmodern performance, a gigantic ego trip. Playing with “traditional values,” mixing references to tradition with open obscenities, Trump is the ultimate postmodern president, while Sanders is an old-fashioned moralist.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

“in today’s market, we find a whole series of products deprived of their malignant property: coffee without caffeine, cream without fat, beer without alcohol . . . And the list goes on: virtual sex as sex without sex, the art of expert administration as politics without politics, up to today’s tolerant liberal multiculturalism as an experience of the Other deprived of its disturbing Otherness. Los Prisonieros add another key figure from our cultural space to this series: the decaffeinated protester. This is a protester who says (or sings) all the right things, but somehow deprives them of their critical edge. He is horrified by global warming, he fights sexism and racism, he demands radical social change, and everyone is invited to join in the big sentiment of global solidarity—but all of this only adds up to mean that he is not required to change his life (maybe just to give to charity here and there). He goes on with his career, he is ruthlessly competitive, but he is on the right side.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

“it was the populist new Right which succeeded in capturing this deeper discontent with capitalist modernity.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

“Byung-Chul Han is right when he points out that Covid fatigue is much greater in developed Western societies because citizens there, more than elsewhere, live under the pressure of the compulsion to achieve:”
― Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

“Orwell’s point is that radicals invoke the need for revolutionary change as a kind of superstitious token that really works to achieve the opposite; i.e.,prevents the change from really occurring.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

“in today’s market, we find a whole series of products deprived of their malignant property: coffee without caffeine, cream without fat, beer without alcohol . . . And the list goes on: virtual sex as sex without sex, the art of expert administration as politics without politics, up to today’s tolerant liberal multiculturalism as an experience of the Other deprived of its disturbing Otherness.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

“Pessimism in theory, optimism in practice.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

“Without you I cannot live, with you I am alone”
― Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

“For this reason alone, Parasite (Korea 2019, Bong Joon-ho) is well worth seeing. What the film avoids is any moralizing idealization of the underdogs in the Frank Capra style. We should oppose here content and form: at the level of content, the upper-class Parks are without any doubt morally superior; they are considerate, sympathetic, and helpful, while the underdogs effectively act like parasites, intruding, manipulating, exploiting . . . However, at the level of form, the Parks are the privileged ones who can afford to be caring and helpful, while the underdogs are pushed by their material circumstances into not very gracious acts. The same holds for the common anti-feminist complaint made by men: “I treat women in a kind, unpatronizing way, but they are so aggressive toward me . . .”—of course they are, since for them this is often the only way to counteract their formal submission. As a rule, it is only those at the top who can afford kindness and sympathy.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

“The fact that Bernie stole the show at Biden’s inauguration, and that the image of him just sitting there instantly became an icon, indicates that the true world spirit of our time was there, in his lone figure, embodying skepticism about the fake normalization staged in the ceremony. The celebration of his image expressed that there is still hope for our cause; people are aware that radical change is needed.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

“One of Mao Zedong’s best-known sayings is: “There is great disorder under heaven; the situation is excellent.” It is easy to understand what Mao meant here: when the existing social order is disintegrating, the ensuing chaos offers revolutionary forces a great chance to act decisively and take political power.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

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― Slavoj Žižek, El cielo en desorden

“Así funciona la ideología en nuestra era de la posverdad. Hoy en día”
― Slavoj Žižek, El cielo en desorden

“Debemos reunir el valor necesario para ponerle nombre a los males que nos acosan.”
― Slavoj Žižek, El cielo en desorden

“Aunque Mao Zedong no comprendía realmente la dialéctica de Hegel (véase su ridícula polémica contra la negación de la negación)”
― Slavoj Žižek, El cielo en desorden

“Decir que Trump defiende los intereses de la gente corriente es como cuando Kane”
― Slavoj Žižek, El cielo en desorden

“¿cuál es la salida de Galloway? ¿Cómo vamos a evitar el colapso social? Su solución es que volvamos a incorporar el amor al capitalismo mediante un proceso de destrucción creativa que deje fracasar a las empresas en quiebra y proteja a los que pierden el trabajo. Así lo explica: «Dejamos que la gente pierda el trabajo para que Apple pueda emerger y sacar del mercado a Sun Microsystems”
― Slavoj Žižek, El cielo en desorden

“Desde que apareció la pandemia”
― Slavoj Žižek, El cielo en desorden

“El momento del socialismo acecha al fondo”
― Slavoj Žižek, El cielo en desorden

“Mi tesis es que es precisamente ahora que Europa está en declive y los ataques a su legado arrecian”
― Slavoj Žižek, El cielo en desorden

“El reproche de Mao a los «marxistas dogmáticos» es que «no comprenden que es precisamente en la particularidad de la contradicción donde reside la universalidad de la contradicción».”
― Slavoj Žižek, El cielo en desorden

“«Mis compatriotas americanos [...] la economía del goteo nunca ha funcionado».”
― Slavoj Žižek, El cielo en desorden

“«La última tentación es la mayor traición / Hacer lo correcto por la razón equivocada».”
― Slavoj Žižek, El cielo en desorden

“Una afirmación que a veces se atribuye a Eckhart (y que no se encuentra en su obra) es que preferiría estar en el infierno con Jesús a en el cielo sin él. Esta afirmación debe leerse no solo como una hipótesis”
― Slavoj Žižek, El cielo en desorden

“«Es posible tratar una crisis como si fuera una crisis”
― Slavoj Žižek, El cielo en desorden

“Depende no solo de la ciencia”
― Slavoj Žižek, El cielo en desorden

“«Nunca hemos sido tan conscientes de lo que no sabemos y de las limitaciones de actuar y vivir en la incertidumbre».”
― Slavoj Žižek, El cielo en desorden

“Esta construcción no es un problema médico o económico”
― Slavoj Žižek, El cielo en desorden

“Nada de lo que hago tiene sentido si la casa está en llamas. Sin embargo”
― Slavoj Žižek, El cielo en desorden