No Sex Please - We're Post-Human!

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Mon Feb 12 02:22:36 PST 2001



> Jan. 22, 2000
> by Slavoj Zizek, special to Britannica.com

<snip>


> While this solution is fantasy at its purest, the deadlock to which it
> reacts is a real one: In our postmodern, permissive, "disenchanted"
> world, unconstrained sexuality is reduced to an apathetic
> participation in collective orgies of the sort depicted in The
> Elementary Particles.

Or as Norman Mailer put it in 1968, sex without guilt is like an evening at the gymnasium.

I had no idea Slavoj thought modern life was so bleak.

Michael

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