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Slavoj Zizek:
I think Kafka was right when he said that - for a modern secular non-religious man - bureaucracy, state bureaucracy is the only remaining - contact with the dimension of the divine. It is in this scene from 'Brazil' - that we see the intimate link - between bureaucracy and enjoyment. What the impenetrable omnipotence of - bureaucracy harbours - is divine enjoyment. The intense rush of bureaucratic engagement - serves nothing. It is the performance of it's very purposelessness - that generates an intense enjoyment - ready to reproduce itself forever
I think Kafka was right when he said that - for a modern secular non-religious man - bureaucracy, state bureaucracy is the only remaining - contact with the dimension of the divine. It is in this scene from 'Brazil' - that we see the intimate link - between bureaucracy and enjoyment. What the impenetrable omnipotence of - bureaucracy harbours - is divine enjoyment. The intense rush of bureaucratic engagement - serves nothing. It is the performance of it's very purposelessness - that generates an intense enjoyment - ready to reproduce itself forever
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I think Kafka was right when he said that
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for a modern secular non religious man
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bureaucracy state bureaucracy is the only remaining
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contact with the dimension of the divine
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It is in this scene from 'Brazil'
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that we see the intimate link
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between bureaucracy and enjoyment
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What the impenetrable omnipotence of
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Movie Summary
Philosopher Slavoj Zizek examines the hidden themes and existential questions asked by world renowned films.
