Slavoj Zizek Quotes on Politics
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural critic, and one of the most prominent public intellectuals working in the broadly Hegelian and Lacanian tradition. This page collects quotes attributed to Slavoj Zizek on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“It is much easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
Žižek! (2005); as Žižek notes on p. 1 of Mapping Ideology (1994), the observation that it is easier to imagine the end of the earth than the end of capitalism was originally made by Fredric Jameson . -
Attributed to Slavoj Zizek:
“The function of ideology is not to offer us a point of escape from our reality but to offer us social reality itself as an escape.”
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“The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (London/New York: Verso, 1999), p. 1.”
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. -
“[A]t the beginning of November 2001, there was a series of meetings between White House advisers and senior Hollywood executives with the aim of co-ordinating the war effort and establishing how Hollywood could help in the " war against terrorism " by getting the right ideological message across not only to Americans, but also to the Hollywood public around the globe — the ultimate empirical proof that Hollywood does in fact function as an " ideological state apparatus .”
Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates (London: Verso, 2002, ISBN 1-859-84421-9 ), p. 16