“We need more alienation from our spontaneous nature,” says Slavoj Zizek. “We should become more artificial.”
Words that are subject to interpretation, I’m sure, but definitely worth thinking about:
- “We should develop a much more terrifying abstract materialism of a mathematical universe…. The difficult thing is to find poetry, spirituality in this dimension. To recreate, if not beauty, then aesthetic dimension in … trash itself.”
- “To find perfection in imperfection itself. That’s how we should love the world.”