as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reali — Slavoj Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reali — Slavoj Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reali — Slavoj Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reali — Slavoj Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reali — Slavoj Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
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as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.

— Slavoj Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
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