Tag Archives: Slavoj �i�ek

Slavoj �i�ek says that Wikileaks is hated not because of the secrets it has revealed, but because it exposed the cynicism of a system that has long stopped believing in the values it imagines itself to uphold. It's a problem not only for diplomacy and governance, but for the eroding distinction between public and private life.

G. K. Chesterton: "The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth."

In place of the brave new world of design fiction, artists like Olafur Eliasson invite us to enter the instant Utopia of our own imaginations.

A project to use barcodes to track consumer waste reminds me of what Slavoj �i�ek says while standing amidst piles of garbage: "part of our daily perception of reality is that this [trash] disappears from our world."