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Os Direitos Humanos e o Nosso Descontentamento
A falsa participação é, segundo Zizek, uma forma de definir a participação das pessoas nos processos políticos pós-modernos. Os políticos pedem incessantemente que as pessoas participem, mas muitas coisas são excluídas, o que leva a perguntar: O que é que é excluído desta democracia participativa, multicultural e tolerante? Zizek afirma que o próprio trabalho — isto é, o trabalho manual por oposição à chamada actividade simbólica —, o trabalho, e não o sexo, está a tornar-se cada vez mais num lugar que deve ser ocultado do olhar dos outros. Face à invisibilidade dos milhões de trabalhadores anónimos que transpiram nas fábricas do Terceiro Mundo, desde os gulags chineses às linhas de montagens indonésias, o Ocidente pode dizer que a chamada classe trabalhadora está a desaparecer. Mas a verdade é que está apenas a desaparecer daqui.
44 pages
Published January 1, 2007
About the author
Slavoj Žižek
652 books7,600 followersSlavoj Žižek is a Slovene sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic.
He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia). He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party Liberal Democracy of Slovenia for Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia (an auxiliary institution, abolished in 1992).
Since 2005, Žižek has been a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Žižek is well known for his use of the works of 20th century French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. He writes on many topics including the Iraq War, fundamentalism, capitalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock.
In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País he jokingly described himself as an "orthodox Lacanian Stalinist". In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! he described himself as a "Marxist" and a "Communist."
He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia). He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party Liberal Democracy of Slovenia for Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia (an auxiliary institution, abolished in 1992).
Since 2005, Žižek has been a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Žižek is well known for his use of the works of 20th century French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. He writes on many topics including the Iraq War, fundamentalism, capitalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock.
In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País he jokingly described himself as an "orthodox Lacanian Stalinist". In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! he described himself as a "Marxist" and a "Communist."
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