Zizek claims, “We do not relate to a certain person as to a “king” because this person is “in himself” (on account of his charismatic character or something similar) a king, but because he occupies the place of a king within the set of socio-symbolic relations.”
The significance of Zizek’s idea is that, between the person [...]
One of our soundbites is: “We’re wearing the white overall so that other people wear it. We’re wearing the white overall so that we can take it off someday”.
The white overall is not a “uniform” […] It hasn’t got militaristic origins. Back in Autumn 1994 the Mayor of Milan evicted the Leoncavallo squatted centre and [...]
In the world where the master signifier is removed, authority haunts us as an invisible and omnipresent form.
Zizek explains, “The suspension of the Master, which reveals impotence, in no way gives rise to liberating effects: the knowledge that “the Other doesn’t exist” (that the Master is impotent, that Power is an imposture) imposes on [...]
“If you do not believe, kneel down, act as if you believe , and the belief will come by itself.”
“If things go as we hope and Indian rights are finally recognised, Marcos will cease to be subcomandante, leader, myth … People will realise that the Zapatistas’ main weapon was not the gun, but words. And when the dust raised by our uprising settles, people will discover a simple truth: in this whole struggle and [...]
