Slavoj Žižek, "Soft Fascism, Artificial Intelligence, and Shamelessness"

This post is originally a Korean translation of Slavoj Žižek’s Oxford lecture, so there is no separate English version. However, the following personal observation from the original post is reproduced here.

Psychoanalytically, Perversion is a manifestation of subconscious positivity while hysteria is a manifestation of subconscious negativity. Positivity encompasses concepts such as freedom, laissez-faire, liveliness, and activity, while negativity encompasses concepts such as repression, constraint, prohibition, and passivity. In this lecture, Žižek appears to subsume “soft fascism” — the pathological fusion of ideology and capitalism, — artificial intelligence, and the rise of Shamelessness under the category of perversion, namely the uncontrolled manifestation of positivity.