Here are a few unused quotes from my conversation with Slavoj Zizek; the used quotations appear in this column in the Village Voice.
....I’m almost tempted to be honest here. It started with you, New Orleans, Katrina, but now we’ve got it in Europe, it’s already curfew in some cities in France. The antagonisms of capitalism are too strong for capitalism itself to resolve them in the long term. I don't think we can simply repeat Marx, but my attitude is negative, in the sense that the existing system has fateful limitations. It cannot go on indefinitely, it will get destructive....
....I am a tyrant. I am extremely harsh, I fire people, I terrorize people....
....I don’t have a photo of myself except for my passport. I had some pictures taken, both times my publisher was horrified, I looked like someone who watches child pornography and tortures small children and butterflies....
....What’s good about capitalism is its irrationality. If you go bankrupt you can blame irrational forces. Otherwise, if you were at the bottom, you would have to say, “I deserve it”....
....This is all babbling. I give you the right to invent quotations, to make up anything for me to say. You're my Minister of Information....
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