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'La [[passion ]] du [[réel]]'
[[Badiou]]
'La passion du réel', the passion of the [[real]].
Precisely because the [[universe]] in which we live is somehow a universe of [[dead]] conventions and artificiality, the only authentic real [[experience]] must be some extremely violent, shattering experience.
Slavoj [[Zizek]]: I [[think]] this may be what defined the twentieth century, which really began with the First [[World]] War. We all [[remember]] the war reports by Ernst Jnger, in which he praises this eye-to-eye combat experience as the authentic one.
There must be extreme [[violence]] for that [[encounter]] to be authentic.
CUTTER
[[Another]] emblematic [[figure]] in this [[sense]] to me is the so-called '[[cutter]]'- a widespread pathological phenomenon in the USA. There are two million of [[them]], mostly [[women]], but also men, who cut themselves with razors. Why? It has [[nothing]] to do with [[masochism]] or [[suicide]]. It's simply that they don't feel real as persons and the [[idea]] is: it's only through this [[pain]] and when you feel warm blood that you feel reconnected again. So I think that this tension is the background against which one should appreciate the effect of the act.
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