The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.
Slavoj ŽižekOur biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential.
Slavoj ŽižekMy instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
Slavoj ŽižekWhat is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm caring smile of a person who may otherwise seem ugly and rude. In such miraculous but extremely fragile moments, another dimension transpires through our reality. As such, the Absolute is easily corroded;it slips all too easily through our fingers and must be handled as carefully as a butterfly
Slavoj Žižek