Friday, July 24, 2020

Civilisation does not tame nature, it tames excess

Perversion, the idea of a 'deadly sexual passion' is totally foreign to the animal universe. This infinite passion, neither nature nor culture is our contact with the absolute... We don't have culture that tries to tame civilise gentrify some excess but this excess is not nature - this excess is precisely a radical disruption of nature. 

Slavoj Zizek